People are Talking: The Keith Lee Effect in the Bay Area

‘People are Talking’ about food influencer Keith Lee’s visit to review mom-and-pop shops across the Bay Area. An Oakland taco stand called Chef Green’s was one of the lucky contestants to be visited by Lee, and Chef Dione Green spoke about how one review from the social media star is about to help his business boom. (01-11-2024)

[@CameronTV]

Bro said it’s over ppl just surviving not living in the Bay & he’s from Detroit that’s saying something how sad

[@onewheeltonio4940]

Instead on the news outlets exploiting people stories for their own benefit, they should have the news promoting all these businesses if they really want to help out. Yet they wait for brother to try and help. Anyone can be a food critic, if you pick up your phone and talk.

[@islabonita6304]

5-6 hours wait time, where exactly was that? I live in the Bay Area, and I agree that SF and Oakland, plus some surrounding areas are not visitor friendly. Between the homeless problems, theft, crime and drugs, unless you are from around here, it is hard to tell where you need to stay away from. I'm glad you came without a tour guide or familiar person, this way people know what they are walking in to if you don't have a plan in place when staying in the Bay Area.

[@McKeeNJackson]

I’m in sf right now. If you fly in thinking you gona see a nice city you’re trippin. Maybe in the sunset district and north beach but the rest is grimy yet it’s the most expensive city to live in other than San jo

[@McKeeNJackson]

If you coming to California in general tho without a game plan your trip is destined to be terrible lol. Don’t get lost out here because we got cities that don’t play. Idk who goes on vacation without having some kind of places that one would want to visit. Who goes to Hawaii and doesn’t do any homework on where to go? If people are really making trips without some places in mind then they must be balling and live on planes because normally people have some gage on what they wana do

[@deeshotcha2250]

Watch the full video 🙏🏾💙

[@ericsokolov8121]

Lol this guy sent him to the hospital

[@larrym2434]

Seriously. Here's the guy who triggered Keith Lee's shellfish allergies, then Keith Lee decided to crap all over the whole Bay Area!

[@Codi892]

Nah. Keith went to other places that he didn't showcase.

[@tanyaadam5981]

No it was a different restaurant he even said on his TikTok

[@PrettyStraightforwardBudgets]

Yes, it has an effect.

[@uyeda]

Aw.

[@misterjahi]

If he didn't go to Minnie Bell's oh well. He missed out on Soul Food. If he didn't go to Neecha on Grand Ave, oh well, he missed out to great Thai. If he didn't have a burrito, he didn't come to the Bay.

[@rondasimpson8194]

Yes

[@nateenahill7478]

He was scared to get out the car first it's good tho we understand ❤

[@igotthejuc3394]

Get out yo feelins... he never walks inside himself. The point of that is to see how the customer service is. If he walk in, customer service gon be EXTRA special. If the food is good, hell get out n drop a big tip

[@MrCbj102]

Yall gonna talk about him cutting his trip short for because of the shithole the bay has become

[@patmiles6429]

10 doller taco no thank u

[@rslily]

You gotta go to the cuts to find them good tacos 🌮

[@stevenjohnson8736]

in east bay Oakland they be havin lots of taco truck just like here in Stockton 209 as well

[@bfranco1519]

Democrats gutted the bay area. Went from one of best areas in the country to one pf the worst..

[@thepunadude]

BORN RAISED SILLY CON VALLEY, MOVED TO HAWAI'I, '89, WONT GO BACK! USED TO BE GOOD FOOD PLACES, BEFORE!

[@Tyra_Richards]

Seems like a nice guy but I don't what makes him some kind of expert on knowing what good food is and taste like. I mean did he even go to school for cooking, was a chef, have some kind of experience with making food, it doesn’t seem

[@TheDarkAdventure]

He has a mouth. Everyone eats. You don't need a stamp from a white establishment to taste food.

[@igotthejuc3394]

All he doin is sharin his opinion

[@rslily]

Who are these old host on the show? Get some young representation on there who actually use social media and understand its power

[@smuvloki]

Y’all did all that just to NOT promote the name and address of the business?? Seems a bit disingenuous. Do better

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

Tf? You realize that Keith Lee only has like 30 thousand followers right? You couldn’t at least get Mr Chime Time? Tf?

[@macarenagonzalez6743]

He has 15 million followers on tiktok wym 😩

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

@@macarenagonzalez6743 first of all I love the song macarena. It’s at 105 BPM and in a major key. I do it acapella when I train in martial arts when I’m outdoors (I don’t ever have a phone when Im outdoors)

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

@@macarenagonzalez6743 second of all I didn’t know that. Third of all I’m so mad now :-(

[@Biden2024MFs]

who?

[@edgargee408]

lol he no food critic lol

[@complexsin5469]

With a big following and alot of people following his recommendations....what else would you need to be a food critic?

[@McKeeNJackson]

@@complexsin5469uhh experience in the food industry. He’s an ex mma fighter.

[@igotthejuc3394]

He dnt claim to be one.... he jst sharin his opinion

[@McKeeNJackson]

@@igotthejuc3394 well his opinion doesn’t hold water. He’s not even a good reviewer lol he’s got a shellfish allergy and doesn’t even know how to describe what he eats. He just says “7/10” like oh ok cool lol. We don’t respect people like him in the industry

[@Oakland5150]

Yawn.

[@ovniusa15]

We really don’t care! and your journalism degree just died

[@edgeinscarride]

Keith who? Who is this guy and why would he have a effect on our area . We already know the good places and the bad p[laces because we live here Ask people who live here instead of some rando on social media with a agenda.

[@igotthejuc3394]

That "rando" done brought hella mom n pop shops hella traffic n helped em in a big way. You didnt hear the taco owner in the video talk about the kieth lee effect ?? Cmon now