Despite receiving poor, slow service at a restaurant on their sixth anniversary, a couple in Iowa decided to leave the server a $100 tip along with a friendly note.

When Makenzie and Steven Schultz arrived at Kazoku Sushi restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they could see that it was chaotic and understaffed.

It took more than 20 minutes before a server finally greeted them and took their drink order. They waited more than an hour for their entrees. They weren’t the only ones put off by the service - they could hear patrons complaining as well.

"People all around us were making fun of the restaurant and how bad the service was," Makenzie wrote in a Facebook post. "Yeah, it was pretty terrible."

But instead of walking out or leaving a bad tip, they decided to do something different. They said the waiter was handling 12 tables plus the bar and they felt badly because it appeared to be a staffing issue and not his fault.

"As I sat there and watched him run back and forth and apologize for the wait, I said to Steven…Wow, this used to be us," she wrote, adding that she never liked serving and only used to do it for the tips.

The pair met eight years ago while working as servers at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant. They figured the waiter would probably get bad tips because of the slow service so they decided to make his night and leave a $100 tip on a $66 tab.

The note read, "We've both been in your shoes. Paying it forward."

 

Makenzie took a photo of the receipt and then left the restaurant before the waiter saw it. She posted the photo to Facebook writing that she doesn't want applause, she just wants people to think about the situation before judging and for people to remember where they came from.

Since posting it four days ago, the Facebook post has gone viral with more than 1.5 million likes.