Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

The Power and The Shrimp – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

October 30, 2014 Out to Lunch Comments Off on The Power and The Shrimp – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

If you live in New Orleans you’re familiar with this scenario: You’re having a perfectly normal day when suddenly you groan, “Oh noooo.” You’re not watching the Saints’ defense, it’s that other sinking feeling you get as a New Orleanian – when the power goes off.

mark kleehammer

Today on Out to lunch Peter takes a look at the other 364 days, 23 hours in the life of New Orleans’ Fortune 500 company, Entergy, with Mark Kleehammer, Entergy’s Vice President of Business Development Services.

peter ricchiuti, jay lapeyre

Peter’s other guest is associated with a more joyful but no less familiar New Orleans institution: peeled shrimp. If it wasn’t  for Jay Lapeyre, and his dad, we’d all be peeling  our own shrimp. Jay is President of Laitrim – the inventors and manufacturers of the shrimp peeling machine, and they own over 570 other patents. 

henry duquesnay, peter ricchiuti

In the You Heard It Here First segment of the show, Peter introduces entrepreneur Henry duQuesnay and his new business iGardenX. A longer conversation with Henry and Peter’s guests can be heard here.

peter ricchiuti, jay lapeyre, mark kleehammer, henry duquesnay

The photos on this page were taken at Commander’s Palace by Cheryl DalPozzal.  

Realtor Tracey Moore