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Ashlie D. Stevens

Olive Garden's lesson for Red Lobster

In early June, after it was announced that Red Lobster was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Public Enemy rapper and television personality Flavor Flav posted a picture of himself at one of the chain’s locations. While wearing dark glasses and his signature clock necklace, he posed with his arms extended (with a cheddar bay biscuit in-hand) over two tables worth of food: hushpuppies, rings of calamari, a few steaks and some solo mounds of mashed potatoes. Amid several plates of lobster claws, there’s one full lobster, alongside a black plastic cup of melted butter, serving as a kind of centerpiece. 

“Ya boy meant it when I said I was gonna do anything and everything to help Red Lobster and save the cheddar bay biscuits,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “[O]rdered the whole menu,!!!” 

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