A FOOD fight over cherries has turned into an all-in brawl at a Melbourne fruit shop, leaving a shop worker with serious head injuries.

Channel 9 News reported that staff and customers at Thanh Thien Springvale Fresh Market were caught up in the fight just before 5pm last Friday, which was believed to have been sparked by an irate shopper.

The store manager told Channel 9 News the shop sold cherries by the kilo, but when a customer went to bag his own, and was told he couldn’t, things turned physical.

A 30-year-old staff member is believed to have been taken to hospital with serious head injuries.

He was later released and was recovering at home.

Springvale First Constable Samantha Coad said two men from Narre Warren, aged 28 and 34, were arrested on the same day at the fruit shop.

They have been charged with affray and intentionally causing injury and have been bailed to appear in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on March 15.

The store manager was not available when the Leader phoned the shop today.

Anyone who saw the incident should phone Springvale Police Station on 8558 8600.