"It was just an unfortunate thing...once the show was over, it was really out of our hands. Chipotle was running it," the TV loudmouth personality told Eater in an interview.
The sentiment echoes Woods's accusations that Chipotle handed over crappy management teams to get Soul Daddy up and running and then didn't stay on for the year it had committed to.
Chipotle maintains that the investor group decided to shut down Soul Daddy after it generated "significant negative cash flows."
Flay also told Eater that he'd heard Woods was planning on opening a restaurant in Detroit. Chipotle will probably be happy when America's Next Great Restaurant is part of the distant past.