The creator of the 'Bali Nine' burger says he might modify its name, but it's the media, not his customers, who seem to have a problem with it.
Cameron Tobin has been selling the Bali Nine burger at his Fins n Fries cafe on North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, for five years - half the time the Bali Nine drug smugglers have spent in jail in Indonesia.
He says it's one of his best sellers and the burger's nine ingredients, including a Balinese-style satay sauce, helped inspire the name.
But with the executions of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran imminent, Mr Tobin says he might change it.
He says he can understand how some might find it offensive, but he won't be taking the burger of the menu.
"No, I don't think so. Why should I?" he told the ABC on Friday.
However, he added the Bali Nine burger maybe might become the "Bali burger".
Mr Tobin says the burger has proven to be a good conversation starter with customers and while he feels sorry for the condemned men and their families, he says they should have known where their crimes would land them.
"If you go to those Asian countries and perform a crime like that, that's the law over there, isn't it?" he said.
"It's well-noted when you hop off the plane ... going into the country."
Mr Tobin says some customers had suggested he rename the burger the Bali Seven, once the men are put to death, but he won't be doing that.
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