A customer at a South Carolina Waffle House opened fire and killed a man allegedly trying to rob the restaurant.

Joshua Jermaine Davis, 19, is said to have come into a North Charleston location with a weapon early Saturday morning before being shot by an unidentified customer with a permit to carry his pistol.

The unidentified customer is not currently being charged for the shooting, according to police.

An unidentified customer at a Waffle House in North Charleston, South Carolina, shot dead a man who was allegedly trying to rob the breakfast restaurant

Davis was taken to a local hospital, where he died, The Post and Courier reported.

'No one was hurt, which is the best part,' regional Waffle House manager Brandon Rogers, who added that nothing was stolen, told the newspaper.

'No one was injured — besides the suspect'.

An employee at the restaurant said 'He saved us, that’s what he did'.

Employees at the Waffle House, near the city's airport, swept up broken glass and reopened the restaurant at noon.

Windows at the Waffle House were broken when the customer, who had a permit to carry his handgun, opened fire

Previous reports from pro-gun groups say that Waffle House bans firearms at all locations except for law enforcement.

It is unclear whether the man at the South Carolina location was in law enforcement or how he had a gun in the restaurant.

Late last month Kentucky National Guard soldier Billy Welsh was refused service and told to leave his handgun in his car when he entered a Nicholasville location around 2am.

A fellow customer's Facebook account of the incident went viral.

Pro-gun advocates have previously criticized Waffle House for banning firearms except for law enforcement. Above, police gather evidence from the scene

The Nicholasville Waffle House owner Ray Daniels later posted on Facebook that his restaurant has long had a no firearms policy, but enforces the ban 'loosely' for members of the military.

However, he said that the fact that Welsh had recently been involved in a fight at the Waffle House played a role in their decision to ask him to put his gun away.

An employee at the North Charleston location, which is next to a military facility, declined to answer questions about the Saturday shooting or the location's firearms policy.