Customers at the Market Cafe were stunned when they were told their bills had already been settled (Picture: Facebook)

A stranger paid for a whole café’s breakfast including fry-ups and cups of coffee, in a heart-warming gesture of good will.

Just when you thought the whole world was nothing but doom and gloom, it is nice to know there are still some good people out there.

The man – who will remain anonymous – footed the bill after he enjoyed a cuppa at the Market Café in Ulverston, Cumbria.

After finishing his breakfast he asked the member of staff if he could pay for everyone’s food and drinks.

He didn’t want to make a song and dance about it, he just said he wanted to do something nice for the people in the café.

Joy McCormack, who has been running the café for four years said the kind gesture is what restores her faith in humanity.

In total the bill came to around £45, but it isn’t how much it cost which matters.

The cafe posted online after the lovely gesture from a random customer (Picture: Facebook)

The cafe has also been running a treat paid for by a generous customer scheme (Picture: Facebook)

Joy said: ‘It was just an incredibly kind and wonderful thing to do.

‘It wouldn’t have mattered how much the bill came to he just wanted he do something nice.

‘We have a wonderful community here, and I think he was just touched by that.

‘I’ve never seen him before, he was just in his 30s, and there was nothing about him that stood out. He was just a nice man.

‘It was totally out of the blue, but it just shows there are some really good people out there. It was a lovely moment and just restores your faith in humanity.’

Joy posted online and said: ‘Yesterday a wonderful customer quietly paid for everyone in the cafe-they all got a lovely surprise!

‘Thanks to that kind man!’

People responded by thanking him on Facebook and said: ‘Lovely gesture by a kind person. Well done to him’

Another added: ‘It’s great to know there are still some nice people in this world’

And one said: ‘Best kind of kindness, not expecting anything in return. Bit early for Christmas, but that is the true spirit of Christmas and humanity’

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The customer paid for everyone’s tea, coffee and fry-ups in a lovely gesture.