In a bit of expected news, larger-than-life rapper Flavor Flav has called it quits in his bid to become the royal king of fried chicken after closing the doors to his Flav’s Fried Chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa, after just four months.
According to accessatlanta.com, the closing, which occurred on April 24, came abruptly after Flavor Flav exchanged harsh words and cut ties with his business partner, Nick Cimino, who also served as the restaurant’s manager.
In a phone interview with WQAD-TV, Flavor Flav explained that he cut ties with Cimino due to his mistreatment of the restaurant’s employees.
“I gave [Cimino] permission to take my name and my license to operate a business,” Flavor Flav. “I have to do whatever is possible for me to save my name and that’s to shut the business down because Nick Cimino isn’t running the business right. The reason I pulled the license was because there’s a lot of employees that weren’t getting paid.”
However, Cimino claims that Flavor Flav was the corrupt partner and that he stole his idea for the restaurant.
“I started this,” Cimino said. “I put together everything from the menu to the color of the building to the sign. I did everything. What Flav’s doing, he’s a fraud. He doesn’t want to be hurt with the other ventures he’s doing and he wants to become a millionaire off my dime, off my ideas.”
Although Cimino could have received 40 percent of the profits had the restaurant franchised, he explains that doing business with Flavor Flav just wasn’t worth the gain.
“I’m not doing this for my 40 percent. I could care less,” Cimino said. “I’m just glad I’m free of somebody like Flavor Flav.”
Although Flavor Flav isn’t frying anyone’s chicken anymore, don’t count him out of the restaurant business just yet. The former VH1’s Flavor of Love reality star is interested in opening another restaurant in Davenport, Iowa, and hopes to open an entertainment venue in Las Vegas called Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor.
What do you think of Flavor Flav closing his fried chicken restaurant? Do you think he should open more restaurants? –nicholas robinson
