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.

Airborne Chalkboard – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

If you’ve been shopping lately you might have noticed the growing number of stores that have creative chalkboard signs outside on the sidewalk. You might have also noticed similar creative chalkboard menus in restaurants. 

smallchalk

There’s a good chance those groovy looking hand lettered chalkboard signs were made by a company called SmallChalk, the brainchild of Ashlee Arcenaux Jones.

ashlee arceneaux jones

Ashlee is Peter’s guest on Out to Lunch today.

Peter’s other lunch guest also writes signs. And tows them across the sky behind a plane.

neil nadler

Neil Nadler is the owner of Air Reldan. Besides aerial advertising and charter flights, Air Reldan provide Mile High airborne services that you may find equally intriguing. 

peter ricchiuti, neil nadler, ashlee arceneaux jones

This conversation is a unique and candid look at niche marketing. 

peter ricchiuti, neil nadler, ashlee arceneaux jones

Photos taken at Commander’s Palace by Cheryl DalPozzal.

Realtor Tracey Moore