Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

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.

Tourists and Locals – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

February 8, 2018 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Tourists and Locals – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

If you live in or have spent any time in New Orleans recently, this has probably happened to you. You’re driving around town, or you walk out of a bar or restaurant, and you’re suddenly confronted by a huge bunch of people on bikes. The bikes are all decorated and lit up like neon signs and these people seem to be having the best time ever.

This is not a bunch of random friends. It’s a group of people organized by a company called Bike Rite. Bike Rite provides the bikes, the music, the route, and the party. It’s a whole lot of fun and a growing and successful business.

Bike Rite's Nick Reed

Co-founder of Bike Rite, Nick Reed, is Peter Ricchiuti’s lunch guest. 

So is Dennis Pearse.

The Roosevelt Hotel's Dennis Pearse

Dennis is General Manager of The Roosevelt Hotel. The Roosevelt is one of the oldest and most luxurious hotels in the city. It’s also the home of the legendary locals’ watering hole, the Sazerac Bar, and the city’s most celebrated cabaret venue, the Blue Room.

Tourists and locals meet, at Commander’s Palace on this edition of Out to Lunch.

Nick Reed, Dennis Pearse, Peter Ricchiuti

Photos by Alison Moon.