Saudi police have arrested a man for speaking to a woman during his lunch break.

Footage emerged online showing a woman approaching the restaurant worker behind the eatery in the city of Mecca in the kingdom's west, The Daily Mail reported.

The clip, in which the man and the woman appear to have a brief conversation, divided opinions of people into two schools; some outraged by their ‘immoral’ behavior and others said there was nothing wrong with the interaction.

However, the worker was soon identified before being arrested and ‘punished’, according to police.