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.

Wood – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

October 13, 2016 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Wood – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

In the new New Orleans economy we’re used to hearing success stories about exciting new tech businesses that make apps for your phone and other products that couldn’t have even existed a few years ago.

Alongside all this tech wizardry there are folks who are making things the old fashioned way – with hammers, nails, and glue.

Jon Dijkhuzien

Jon Dijkhuizen has a company called NOLA Woodworks that makes hand crafted wooden outdoor furniture – like swing seats and picnic tables.

Mandy Simpson

Mandy Simpson has a company called NOLA Boards that makes hand crafted chopping boards.

Although neither Mandy nor Jon can look down the road at an exit strategy that includes selling their businesses for billions to Facebook, you might be surprised at the kind of success they’re enjoying. And not just here in New Orleans but further afield as well.

Mandy Simpson, Jon Dijkhuzien, Peter Ricchiuti

Peter Ricchiuti, Jon and Mandy discuss the surprisingly buoyant artisanal woodwork economy on this edition of Out to Lunch. 

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

Realtor Tracey Moore