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.

Dine Out Work Out – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

When you launch a new business, you have no way of knowing whether you’re going to make a billion dollars, or make a bunch of decisions that add up to little more than a valuable lesson.

When a small group of New Orleans guys started hosting pop-up foodie dinners in deserted buildings, few could have predicted Dinner Lab would turn out to be a multi-million dollar nationwide business.

paco robert

Dinner Lab Co-founder Paco Robert joins Peter on this edition of Out to Lunch today, along with Jason Navarro.

jason navarro

Jason’s business is at the other end of the dietary spectrum – he’s created a new line of sports supplements, called 4D.

jason navarro, paco robert, peter ricchiuti

Taking on every product in GNC, and setting up dinners in bombed out buildings across America could be the subjects of two reality TV shows. Peter tackles both of those topics today on Out to Lunch.  And that’s not all, he’s also taking on dressing up like a fairy princess. 

frank scurlock, emily chatelain, bibiddy bobiddy bash

In the You Heard It Here First segment of the show, Emily Chatelain introduces her party-girl biz, Bibiddy Bobiddy Bash. Hear a longer conversation about Bibiddy Bobiddy Bash with Emily, Peter, Jason and Paco, here.

The photos on this page were taken at Commander’s Palace by Chet Overall.