Call him the flavor savior.
Flavor Flav expressed his unwavering support for the struggling Red Lobster on Wednesday after the chain filed for bankruptcy.
“I meant it when I said I’d do anything to help Red Lobster and save Cheddar Bay Biscuits,” the 65-year-old hip-hop legend said. Share with X Monday.
“I ordered everything on the menu!”
Flav, whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., shared a photo of himself at Red Lobster surrounded by a packed table full of calamari, nachos, his beloved cheddar biscuits, and of course, lobster.
He revealed in an Instagram post that he shared the harvest with his family.
“Good times, boy,” the appreciative restaurant chain commented beneath the post.
This is Flaiv’s second such gesture in recent weeks.
Last month, the rapper became the official spokesman for the U.S. women’s water polo team, helping to raise awareness of the team’s efforts to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
The massive order also comes just weeks after Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, putting more than 135 restaurants across the country at risk of closing.
The Orlando, Florida-based chain abruptly closed nearly 100 stores just days before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Several former executives and senior managers blamed Red Lobster’s sudden downfall on a “horrible” work environment and incompetence that fostered after the chain’s 2020 acquisition by Thai Union, which owns a 49% stake in the chain.
“The last year and a half that I was there, it was a terrible job,” Les Foreman, a West Coast division vice president who worked at Red Lobster for 20 years and was laid off in 2022, told CNN. “They had no idea about running a restaurant company in the United States.”
In May, The Washington Post reported that Red Lobster was working to keep its Times Square restaurant open.
If Red Lobster wants to stay open in the popular tourist spot, it will have to pay $2.2 million a year in rent for the three-story, 16,482-square-foot space — more than double the $1 million it’s currently believed to be paying.
The seafood chain has just a few weeks left to renegotiate the terms of its lease with its landlord, which expires at the end of June.
