{"id":6138,"date":"2011-04-28T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:05:53","slug":"flavor-flavs-chicken-restaurant-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6138","title":{"rendered":"Flavor Flav&#8217;s Chicken Restaurant Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLINTON, Iowa &#8212; A fried chicken restaurant in Iowa founded by <strong>Flavor Flav<\/strong> has abruptly closed its doors after the reality TV star and his business partner cut ties and exchanged harsh words.<\/p>\n<p>Flav&#8217;s Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa, closed on Sunday, just four months after opening to much fanfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flav<\/strong> said that he was pulling a license that allowed restaurant manager <strong>Nick Cimino<\/strong> to use his name in the restaurant because he &#8220;isn&#8217;t running the business right.&#8221; Some former employees had complained they were not paid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cimino<\/strong> told the station <strong>Flav<\/strong> was &#8220;a fraud&#8221; who was trying to get rich off of his ideas and work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flav<\/strong>, a founder of the hip-hop group Public Enemy and later a star of VH1&#8217;s &#8220;The Surreal Life,&#8221; opened the business with <strong>Cimino<\/strong> in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLINTON, Iowa &#8212; A fried chicken restaurant in Iowa founded by Flavor Flav has abruptly closed its doors after the reality TV star and his business partner cut ties and exchanged harsh words. Flav&#8217;s Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa, closed on Sunday, just four months after opening to much fanfare. Flav said that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}