It's New Orleans: Out to Lunch

If you re looking for a job, one of the most tedious aspects of the search is constantly refining your resume so it looks appealing to your prospective employer. If you re an employer, one of the most time wasting aspects of searching for the right person is meeting prospective employees and finding out they re not quite as impressive as their resume. Crystal McDonald s New Orleans company, Acrew,...

There s so much music and film in New Orleans, we could do a weekly show exclusively about show business. Even if we were to do that, this edition of Out to Lunch would still be out of the ordinary. Peter s lunch guests are in very non traditional aspects of the entertainment industry. Mike Dardant is a magician. His abilities with sleight of hand, comedy, and pickpocketing have earned him Interna...

There are lots periods of stress in our lives. But there are two that are particularly demanding. And they re both regarding children. When you get pregnant, you re very soon made aware of the wide range of things that can go wrong with the development of your baby. Finding out the results of medical tests on your child can relieve your stress, and save the life of your baby. At the BioInnovation...

One of our favorite foods here in Louisiana is raw oysters. Oysters are also the favorite place to hang out for a couple of bacteria that are very unfriendly to human beings. Notwithstanding, nobody in Louisiana has gotten sick from a raw oyster in some time. The reason for that is a company called AmeriPure. AmeriPure kills the bad bacteria in oysters without affecting the oyster s taste. Pat Fah...

Just by living in New Orleans you can naturally develop a lot of useful skills. Dodging potholes and catching Mardi Gras beads improves hand eye coordination. Peeling crawfish increases dexterity. One of the skills you will not have learned growing up or living here, is surfing. That s about to change. Thanks to Becky Hardin s City Surf Fitness. City Surf Fitness is a new way to get fit. Only step...

One of the topics in the national debate these days is trade. Meaning imports and exports. Onn Out to lunch, Pater and his guests take a look at two of the most obscure imports into the United States, and New Orleans. One from Britain, the other from Italy. Francis Palumbo joins Peter to talk about the British import. Francis is a member of the board of The Crescent City Blues Rugby Football club....

Two years ago on Out to Lunch we met two very interesting entrepreneurs. Haley Burns was just finishing up school. She was wondering if she could turn a project called Fund 17 that she d started as a student, into a full time job. Libby Fischer had come to New Orleans to get involved in education again, having been a part of Teach For America in Mississippi. On this trip, Libby wound up as CEO of...

Did you know that more people are scared of public speaking than are scared of heights or spiders And that, when asked, people rank fear of public speaking as even greater than fear of commitment Think about that. Most of us are more scared of standing up in front of strangers for 5 minutes than committing to a relationship for a lifetime. Not Jeff Harris. Jeff is an expert on public speaking. He...

There are places in the world nobody wants to be. Jail. Hospital. And stuck in an airport, which can feel like a combination of the previous two. If you ve ever sat for hours in an airport and cursed the fact that you can t fly direct from New Orleans to where you want to go, so has Trey Fayard. That s why Trey started up New Orleans based GLO Airlines. There s an even worse circle of Hell you can...

We ve seen major sectors of the US economy change over the last few years. Retail and energy have both been shaken up. But probably nothing has gotten more people shaken up than changes in healthcare. Peter s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch are shaking up healthcare in New Orleans. Dr. Mark Berenson s clinic is a black Samsonite bag. Dr. Berenson is New Orleans only house call doctor. Dr. R...

Believe it or not, it was only 2013 that the word "selfie" was created. Photography used to be a highly technical and creatively demanding art form. Whether or not taking portraits of ourselves with our phones is the all time low in the world of photographic arts, only time will tell. For the last decade and a half, photographer Zack Smith has been chronicling the cultural life of New Orleans. He...

Have you been to Costco Or Trader Joes Or Whole Foods Or any of the who knows how many other grocery stores in New Orleans Have you noticed that any time you go, every store always seems busy. There s no doubt that here in New Orleans we have a love affair with grocery shopping. We even have our own unique name for it making groceries. On this edition of Out to Lunch we re talking about making gro...

When it comes to having a great idea in business, the difference between success and failure is hard to pin down till you're one or the other. Lisa Lloyd doesn't have the luxury of hindsight. Lisa is an inventor. She has invented products that have made millions. And she has had days that weren't so good. On today s Out to Lunch Peter Ricchiuti discusses the invention business with Lisa Lloyd from...

In the new New Orleans economy we re used to hearing success stories about exciting new tech businesses that make apps for your phone and other products that couldn t have even existed a few years ago. Alongside all this tech wizardry there are folks who are making things the old fashioned way with hammers, nails, and glue. Jon Dijkhuizen has a company called NOLA Woodworks that makes hand crafted...

Somewhere along the line, somebody decided that seeing we live in an environment of extreme humidity and termites, it would be a great idea if we all lived in wooden houses. As a consequence, we re pretty much all familiar with the headaches of renovation and construction. But not as familiar as Scott Wolfe. Scott s company, Zlien, specializes in taking on the painful parts of construction so othe...

When you live in a place for a while you get used to things. So much so that you hardly notice them anymore, no matter how outlandish they might be. For example, you can wander around New Orleans French Quarter with the sound of the calliope blasting over the whole city and not think anything of it. If you do ever stop to think about that calliope music, one of the things you might wonder is, "Who...

When was the last time you bought a car After you bought it, if it was new, did you think you could have gotten a better deal If it was used, did you notice something a few days later that you d wished you d seen before you bought it Those days of car buyer remorse are over, thanks to a New Orleans startup business called ReDrive. Co founder of ReDrive, Max Burwick, joins Peter Ricchiuti on this e...

A lot of tourists who come to New Orleans go home and describe the city as an oasis of European looking streets lined with music clubs where people wander around drinking cocktails and eating beignets 24 hours a day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to the reputable Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, right around twenty percent of the population of the United States is under 15. That s a sizeable market. You don t have to look very far to see the marketers of stuff that kids like trying to sell it to them. Mostly food and toys. Which demonstrates that we don t change all that much as we grow older. But there are other businesses aime...

If you had to name the biggest fried chicken business in Louisiana, you probably wouldn t have to think about it too long. You might take a bit longer to name the next biggest. And even then you might not come up with Krispy Krunchy. Krispy Krunchy has over 1,800 reatail locations in 36 states. It s everywhere from the Virgin Islands to the Wichita Zoo. And it keeps getting bigger. Krispy Krunchy...

The term "Renaissance Man" not surprisingly comes from the renaissance. A period of history where the possibilities for self expression flourished. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you were born in 2004 and you re now in 8th grade, you ve never known a time when New Orleans wasn t Hollywood South. Hold on to those memories. By the time you get to college nobody will believe you d see Tom Cruise at the football game or Matthew McConaughey in the park. If things keep going the way they are, the dismantling of the State s film tax credits will make Hollywood South a golden e...

There are two types of people in the world. The type that think 3D printing is the new industrial revolution. And the type that says, What the heck is 3D printing There's a local 3D printing company called Entrescan that's hoping to convert the type B folks to Type A with a phone app called Scandy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Where are you right now At home In the car In a coffee shop At school It doesn t matter. Wherever you are, with a small piece of consumer electronic equipment you could also be sitting at the table with Peter Ricchiuti at Commander s Palace. Or Peter could be sitting next to you in the car, or in your kitchen. This cutting edge hologram technology is based in what s called Virtual Reality. It s no...

Wherever you are right now, take a look around. There s a fair chance that someone near you is staring at their phone. They re not talking into it, they re writing on it. People love writing so much they re even texting while driving at highway speed. You d have to really be in love with writing to risk your life for "OMG." Peter s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch are very connected with the...