you don't have to be a resident of
flavor town to know who guy fieri is the
spiky-haired restaurateur has been a
staple on the food network since he won
next food network star in 2006. his hit
travel show diners drive-ins and dives
premiered a year later and has been a
staple of the network's programming ever
since the program colloquially known as
triple d has put the spotlight on more
than
1275 restaurants around the world places
that have served up everything from
classic diner fair to unique
international cuisine we're guessing
that nobody has featured more eateries
on television than fieri with the
possible exception of the late legendary
food travel personality anthony bourdain
considering how many locations fieri and
the triple d crew have visited
throughout the show's tenure it's not
outlandish to wonder if the mayor of
flavor town has made a pit stop at one
of your favorite local eateries or maybe
one you hit up once while on vacation
how would you know for sure even those
who religiously tune into the program
probably couldn't recall every single
joint featured on the show and an
internet search could send you spiraling
down a diner's drive-ins and dives
rabbit hole for hours as it turns out
the emmy award-winning television host
has made it easy to figure out whether
or not a restaurant has been graced by
his presence he definitely leaves his
mark at the place there'll be a lie down
the street on that one baby each episode
of diners drive-ins and dives usually
shows guy fieri dropping into a handful
of restaurants before riding off in his
famous red camaro but there is one other
thing the goatee chef does behind the
scenes according to thrillist the
television host commemorates his visit
by busting out a few cans of spray paint
and a stencil of his likeness to tag
some surface in the restaurant if not a
wall then maybe the hood that provides
ventilation inside the kitchen the yeti
also tags three words guy ate here for
the triple d fans who toured the country
for the sole purpose of stopping at the
diners drive-ins and dives seen on fiery
show getting a photograph with the host
graffiti is as much a part of the
experience as the meal itself restaurant
owners can't help but love this fieti
fan ritual even when he left his mark in
their busy kitchens adam sappington
owner of portland restaurant the country
cat told thrillist that he was annoyed
at first when guy stenciled his image on
the restaurant's vent hood but then he
realized it actually enhanced the appeal
for his customers as he explained at
first it was like oh man i wish he
hadn't done that but i can't be mad
people take their picture in front of it
and it's like another notch in their
triple d belt it's like this is the
256th place we've been to it's pretty
cool to be a part of that but not
everyone loves guy fieri's gimmick of
leaving his mark at every place he
visits for diners drive-ins and dives
redditors have posted about how fiery's
paint job was quote gross and
disrespectful and basically a violation
of a space that otherwise had a lot of
character and history but it wasn't
fieri's idea to begin with in a 2010
interview with restaurant radio the host
explained that the gimmick started at
the request of restaurant owners as
fiery put it early on some of the owners
asked me to sign something in their
restaurant to show i'd been there and i
did i did a caricature of me with the
spiky hair and signed by name maybe if
yeti hadn't made it in the television
business he could have had a career as a
graffiti artist fieri admitted he would
get carried away at first as he told
restaurant radio according to the crew
things got out of hand and next thing
you knew i was leaving these giant
drawings and using up like six cans of
spray paint it took some convincing but
fiery eventually limited his artistic
urges to a one foot by one foot square
that was made into a stencil for easy
replication the stencil includes fiery
signature spiked hair the sunglasses and
the goatee of course and it seems pretty
likely that someone from the network
gave yeti the stencil to make it
official considering that it also
includes the familiar food network logo
keep your eyes peeled for piety's tag
the next time you're dining out you
never know where you might find it
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