Flavor Flav orders whole menu at Red Lobster ‘to help’ save chain that filed for bankruptcy
Call him the Flavor Savior.
Flavor Flav showed his unwavering support for Red Lobster after the floundering chain filed for bankruptcy.
“Ya boy meant it when I said I was gonna do anything and everything to help @redlobster and save the cheddar bay biscuits,” the 65-year-old hip-hop legend shared on X Monday.
“Ordered the whole menu!!!”
Flav, whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr, shared a photo of himself at a Red Lobster surrounded by the packed table, filled with calamari, nachos, his beloved cheddar biscuits and, of course, lobster.
In an accompanying Instagram post, he pointed out that he shared his bounty with his family.
“It’s flavor time, boyeeeeeeee,” the grateful restaurant chain commented beneath the post.
Flav’s gesture is the second he’s made in weeks.
Last month, the rapper became the official hype man for the US women’s water polo team to help shine a bigger light on their efforts to go for an unprecedented fourth consecutive gold medal at the Paris Olympics this summer.
His giant order also comes weeks after Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy — putting more than 135 restaurants across the nation in jeopardy of shutting down.
The Orlando, Fla.-based chain abruptly shuttered nearly 100 locations days before the Chapter 11 filing.
Several former executives and senior leaders blamed Red Lobster’s sudden downfall on the “miserable” workplace environment and incompetence that Thai Union — which owns a 49% stake in the chain — cultivated after taking over in 2020.
“It was miserable working there for the last year and a half I was there,” Les Foreman, a West Coast division vice president who worked at Red Lobster for 20 years and was fired in 2022, told CNN. “They didn’t have any idea about running a restaurant company in the United States.”
In May, The Post reported that Red Lobster was working to keep its Times Square location open.
If Red Lobster wants to continue operating in the tourist hotspot, it will have to fork over $2.2 million annually in rent for the three-level, 16,482-square-foot space — more than double the $1 million rate it likely pays now.
The seafood chain has just a few weeks to renegotiate the terms of its lease, which expires at the end June, with the landlord.
