Views jump 15x the channel's usual pace

Gareth Leonard's pizza stop is a shared San Diego apartment

His visit to a home pizza maker with a thousands-long waiting list passes a million views amid a sharp jump across the channel.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 708,381 views a day, 15 times a normal day (48,219).

This Guy Makes Pizza at Home and has a 3,500 Person Wait List

What makes people join a waiting list for pizza baked in a normal home oven? Gareth Leonard heads to a shared two-bedroom apartment in San Diego to explore exactly that question.

His upload, "This Guy Makes Pizza at Home and has a 3,500 Person Wait List", has reached about 1.3 million views since its October 30 release. Alongside that milestone, Leonard's channel has drawn roughly 700,000 views in a day, nearly fifteen times its usual daily pace.

The appeal is in the mismatch between the operation and the demand. According to Leonard's description, the home pizza maker runs two pop-ups a week, selling just twenty pizzas at each. These are New York-style pies made in an apartment, not a restaurant equipped to feed everyone on that list.

Leonard sets out to learn what goes into making them and whether the pizza warrants the wait. The San Diego outing also includes a California burrito stop and a visit to fellow local pizza enthusiast Sam the Dough Guy.

It's a smaller setting than the Rio and Sydney beaches behind some of Leonard's most-watched travel videos. But it fits the close-up food explorations of his recent Chicago trips, from taquerias in Pilsen and Little Village to a South Side tour with neighborhood historian Dilla.

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The facts

Channel: Gareth Leonard
Subscribers: 800,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,020,648
Channel views, pace per day: 708,381 (on a normal day: 48,219)

The numbers

The pizza upload has crossed a million views, while daily views across Gareth Leonard's channel are far above their usual pace.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

48,219

now

708,381

subscribers

800,000

▲ 4,000 in the last 7 days

total views

122,200,773

views per day

708,381

typical day: 48,219

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

862,000

836,000

800,000

791,000

755,000

754,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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