{"id":485716,"date":"2026-06-06T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485716\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:09:09","slug":"inside-the-crazy-new-york-queues-where-people-wait-for-hours-for-insta-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485716\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the crazy New York queues where people wait for hours for Insta-cred"},"content":{"rendered":"

In front of L\u2019industrie Pizzeria, as at many other New York restaurants and shops, customers queue up behind barriers \u2013 in this case, all to grab a prized pizza slice.<\/p>\n

Not everyone in America\u2019s biggest city finds standing in line to be a chore. The power of social media trends means that for some, waiting for hours is an attraction in itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gotten pretty crazy in the city recently,\u201d said food influencer Ali Chilton, who has 168,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome would blame me for the lines at some of those places,\u201d the 31-year-old said, citing a craze for hot chocolates at dessert shop Glace after a video she posted in 2023 racked up tens of millions of views.<\/p>\n

People can queue overnight in New York if needed, as happened last year when punters sought to bag free tickets for a play starring Lupita Nyong\u2019o and Peter Dinklage in Central Park.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople wait in line outside L\u2019industrie Pizzeria in New York City on May 15. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

Isabella Downes, who lately waited 40 minutes outside a Manhattan deli, said she was drawn to the idea of \u201cparticipating in something trendy and fun\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In front of L\u2019industrie Pizzeria, as at many other New York restaurants and shops, customers queue up behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[208885,37236,118123,208889,208882,208883,61,542,60,208884,72226,21198,4320,208887,5675,208886,208888,80],"class_list":["post-485716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ali-chilton","tag-apollo","tag-central-park","tag-damn-lines","tag-dot-cakes","tag-glace","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-lindustrie-pizzeria","tag-lupita-nyongo","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-newgeography-com","tag-peter-dinklage","tag-roberto-casati","tag-same-ole-line-dudes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}