AFL Grand Final 2020: Gold Coast Kebab-gate store’s lifetime offer for Richmond Tigers

The Gold Coast kebab shop at the centre of Richmond’s bubble scandal has offered the Tigers a special boost for their celebrations if they can triumph over the Cats in the AFL Grand Final.

The Gold Coast kebab shop at the centre of Richmond’s bubble scandal has offered the Tigers free kebabs for their celebrations if they can triumph over the Geelong Cats in tonight’s AFL Grand Final.

Cavill Avenue’s Kebab Zone became the most infamous takeaway joint in the AFL world when Richmond players Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones were embroiled in a fistfight outside its doors.

The pair had each purchased one of store manager Kadir Akca’s mixed special kebabs after an evening at a local strip club when the fight broke out and their kebabs were ruined.

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They went straight back and ordered two more, which inspired Kebab Zone to offer the naughty Tigers free kebabs for life as well as a special deal celebrating the Grand Final story the store has inexplicably become interwound with.

Punters will score a chance to walk in the shoes of the suspended Richmond duo with a Kebab Zone special two-for-one deal on the infamous ‘Mick’s Special Kebabs.’

“You know why they’re in the final? The team is eating my kebab,” Akca said.

“They have the special vitamin – kebab power.”

Kebab Zone manager Kadir Akca with two mixed special kebabs for Grand Final day. Picture: Nic Darveniza

Akca said the attention of the AFL world had been good for business but expressed his sympathies for the two players he said were caught in the wrong time at the wrong place.

“I thought they were going to get in touch with me because I told all of the good things about them,” he said.

“I never named them, I said they are two nice innocent people who had nothing to do with the problem but someone else came and touched up on them.

“They’re my customer and I’ve got to look after them.”

Akca promised the Tigers would be welcomed back with open arms on their next visit to Queensland.

“They are welcome back anytime and their team too,” he said.

“I’m not going to charge them – free kebabs.

“And one of my best kebab, their favourite the mixed special.”

The club paid a hefty price for their four kebabs, with a $100,000 fine from the AFL for the breach of the Coast’s hub bubble on top of the $10 for each late-night snack.