Flavor Flav is officially in the chicken business. He has opened his first Flav’s Fried Chicken restaurant in Iowa this past week.

“When the (Cimino) family first met me, it was automatically love at first sight,” Flav said while standing in his restaurant Friday. “They loved your boy Flav.”

Once Flav started selling his 99-cent chicken wings at Mama Cimino’s in Las Vegas, Nick Cimino developed the idea to bring FFC to Clinton.

“Nick sees me frying the chicken and says ‘I’m going back to my town and I’m going to build us a restaurant, the first FFC restaurant,’” Flav said. “I said, ‘Huh, are you serious?’”

So there it is. During the next year, Flav hopes to open hundreds of restaurants around the country, especially since he’s already received calls about opportunities through the Flav’s Fried Chicken franchise.