Foodbeast In The News
While we pride ourselves on covering the latest and greatest in Food News, sometimes the Internet returns the favor. Here’s a quick list of times other publications were kind enough to talk about us:
2024
Entrepreneur – “This Legendary California Fish Market Sold $30 Million in One Year Thanks to Viral Videos – Then Caught Amazon’s Attention”
You know your restaurant has gone viral when it shuts down a California freeway off-ramp. That’s what happened to the San Pedro Fish Market after popular content creator Foodbeast made a video about its “Super Seafood Tray.”
With its irresistible mountain of seasoned shrimp, onions, peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, the family meal was destined to be popular. But no one at San Pedro Fish Market knew just how famous it would become until the Foodbeast feature hit social media.
“That video went so viral it brought in 30,000 customers in 10 days from all over the country and outside the country,” Ungaro tells Restaurant Influencers host Shawn Walchef. “People were calling from London, South America, Kansas and Florida.”
NRN – Foodbeast founder Elie Ayrouth Featured on the NRN “The 2024 Power List” alongside David Portnoy, Keith Lee.
Elie Ayrouth is a publisher and co-founder of food and beverage network Foodbeast. On his own accounts, he eats and comments on a wide variety of foods. His videos include a series, now 92 episodes long, called “Every bean and cheese burrito on the planet.”
Uproxx – “The Founder of Foodbeast Shares His Go-To Fast Food Hacks & Defends In-N-Out’s Fries”
In 14 years, Foodbeast has gone from a humble blog written by foodies geeking out over food porn and the sorts of outlandish food hacks that probably drive fast food employees crazy, to a multi-million dollar media company with a reach in the billions and content that feels at once youthful and deeply knowledgeable.
Orange Coast Magazine – “A Chat With Foodbeast Co-founder Elie Ayrouth on His O.C. Food Faves”
Growing up in Anaheim, Elie Ayrouth frequented the nautical-themed Jolly Roger with his family. Today, at 29, he heads Foodbeast, the Santa Ana-based food news site that has garnered billions of online impressions.
OCWeekly – “Elie Ayrouth is Mr. Foodbeast, Head of the Craziest Food Website Around”
He and his small Foodbeast team took on a “TMZ mentality,” churning out posts on product releases, restaurant news and anything that would make for good Internet-as-water-cooler fodder. Then-editor Charisma Madarang discovered that Cap’n Crunch isn’t technically a captain–the stripes on his uniform would make him a commander instead. The post went up, and five hours later, the issue was being dissected on CNN. “It must have been the slowest news day in the history of news,” [Elie] Ayrouth says.
