It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

Down to the Dirt – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

The post Hurricane Katrina world of demolishing New Orleans buildings and hauling truckloads of rubble off to a landfill isn’t a male-dominated industry, it’s a male only industry. At least it was until Simone Bruni came along.

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A party planner with no parties to plan in 2006 Simone started out with nothing more than a notion, a few pink yard signs, and a business name that would capitalize on her most unique quality in the demolition business: Demo Diva. Today pink Demo Diva dumpsters are all over town.

After you’ve knocked a building down to the dirt, what then? When swaths of buildings started being torn down Will Bradshaw saw the social, environmental and commercial good sense in rebuilding “green.”

green coast broadmoor

Green Coast Enterprises has had a surprisingly impressive impact on both the tone and physical structure of parts of rebuilt New Orleans, most notably taking the lead in the newly restored Broadmoor retail neighborhood.

simone bruni, will bradshaw, peter ricchiuti

In the Pay it Forward segment of today’s show, host Peter Ricchiuti asks Simone and Will to lend their entrepreneurial advice to a new business, cyber-security specialists 504-esnsics.