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.

Drive and Re-Drive – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

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.

Max Burwick

Co-founder of ReDrive, Max Burwick, joins Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch.

Mike Nicoll

If you’d rather not drive, and prefer to be driven, Peter’s other lunch guest can help you out. He’s not an Uber driver. He’s the owner of Nicoll’s Limousine and Shuttle, Mike Nicoll. If you’ve seen a giant stretch Hummer on the road, or a beautiful Rolls Royce with a bride in the back, or prom kids in any number of shiny black limos, you’ve seen Mike’s fleet at work.

Max Burwick, Mike Nicoll, Peter Ricchiuti

Peter and guests are talking about a revolutionary new way to buy or sell a car, and a traditional, luxurious way to ride around in cars, on Out to Lunch at Commander’s Palace.

Photos by Alison Moon

Realtor Tracey Moore