There’s a whole group of people in the UK (probably elsewhere too, but we’re just concerned about these) who review restaurants, take aways, cafės and the like on YouTube. We are talking about people/channels like Gary Eats, Greeno, Hannah Ricketts and the like. No links for any of them. If you want you can surely find them yourself.
They all seem to know each other. They talk about each other’s videos and visits to places, appear on each other’s videos and seem very pally. We have always assumed, though we may be wrong, that they all work for the same company somehow.
They are all white and middle class and middle aged (in the widest sense) characters, but each has some kind of angle (was going to say gimmick but I don’t want to be unfair) that makes them appeal to different audiences. Gary Eats, for example, constantly taps on his food. Harrison Webb talks weird slang. Whether they are genuine or not is not clear.
The restaurant videos often follow a similar and we suppose obvious format: the presenter is outside some place, we learn where they are, there’s a pretext why they are there (eg X reviewed it and hated it), there’s maybe a camera person (never seen and rarely heard but referred to a lot). They go in, talk about the place and the menu, order food and drink, eat it, discuss pros and cons including price, then go outside with the receipt to sum up.
They can travel the country, but have been known to go abroad too.