The shirtless Queensland man who helped foil a robbery attempt at an Oporto burger outlet has revealed he was more concerned for his broken thong than his wellbeing during the dramatic incident.

James Ross-Munro said he had been at a “stubbies and singlets” party when he and his friend, Kane Wiblen, were dropped off to grab some grub from an Arundel service station on the Gold Coast.

“We’d been down at Options Tavern at a stubbies and singlets party, and got dropped off by a mate up the road, we were gonna walk down the servo and get some noodles and went to jump over a sign on the way, and slipped over and busted my plugga [thong],” Mr Ross-Munro told The TODAY Show co-hosts, Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

The pair then noticed a car pull up, and two masked men leapt out to allegedly raid the closed fast food restaurant.

“[I was] pretty concerned about my blowout I had, and looked up and saw a white Commodore pull up with two blokes with shirts around their faces, and yeah…sort of thought something was a bit suss. Better go and check it out,” he said.

Mr Wiblen filmed the dramatic encounter, which captured the brazen Mr Ross-Munro run to the robber’s car and take the keys out of the ignition.

In the video, he could be heard yelling, “Oi, call the cops, call the cops, triple zero quick!”

“They’re robbing the f-----g Oporto!” he said.

But the true Aussie hero, who works at a lawn mowing business, played down the praise and refuted a suggestion from TODAY sport presenter Tim Gilbert that he must work out.

“Mate I don’t go to the gym, haven’t been to the gym in years. The only gym I go to is Jim Beam, that’s about it,” Mr Ross-Munro said.

He also joked that his partner hadn’t feared for his safety – only shown concern over the broken thongs purchased only a few days before.

“She was more concerned that I broke the brand new pair of pluggas that she bought me on Thursday night,” he said.