It's Acadiana: Out to Lunch

The Independent and Abiz publisher Cherry Fisher May sits in for Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch Acadiana. Cherry kicks off by noting the old adage in property development is "Land is valuable because they re not making any more of it," whereas in reality, in the United States there s around 80,000 square miles per person. But, for whatever reason, most of us don t want our own 80,...

We go online for just about everything today. News, weather, music, banking, clothes, shoes, books pretty much everything you re looking for, you just have to Google it and it will pop up. For example, try Googling "Golf balls." You probably won t be surprised that no matter where you are in the world the first thing that shows up at the top of page 1 is GolfBalls.com. What might surprise you is t...

If you grew up around Lafayette and Lake Charles and you re a certain age, you might know Don Begneaud. If you ve got kids and you leave out the part where he dropped out of college Don Beagneaud s story is inspirational. Don started out as a welder, riding a bicycle to classes while a guy he d hired to work for him did his welding jobs. That didn t last too long Don tired of ridnig a bike and let...

When we talk about emergency services we think of the three types of first responders, police, fire, and medical, as equals. Although they are indeed equal in their vital function of saving lives, they re not equal financially. When a police car or a fire engine shows up, the vehicles and the people in them are funded principally by taxes. Most ambulances and EMS workers are not. They re independe...

In business, when we talk about "exports" we re referring to a complex set of conditions that need to be fulfilled to get products out of the United States and into other countries. One of the first problems an exporter faces is finding a market where his or her products are going to be desirable. Or even understood. Although Acadiana is a part of the United States, it s about as close to a foreig...

If you re in business and you re lucky or talented enough to be doing well, it s not long before you start comparing your business with others that are doing better. And start wondering how you could do as well as they are. Or better. We do the same sort of thing, consciously or unconsciously, in our personal lives. It seems to be human nature to compare ourselves to others. And to want to do as w...

We re in an era of the Sharing Economy. Home sharing business Air B n B has a capital valuation of over 10 billion dollars. Car sharing business Uber is closer to 20 billion. This mindset finds its way into day to day business as well. Ground rules that used to be based on competition are becoming infused with a greater sense of cooperation. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Peter Ricchiuti introdu...

In business, it s good to remember the old saying, "All that glitters is not gold." In Acadiana, that glittering might be a rare gemstone. Or a shiny new violin. For a long time Lafayette's economy was based on one of the most valuable rescources buried below the earth's surface. Oil. In 1970, See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.