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.

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Joseph Makkos answered an ad on Craig’s List and ended up buying 30,000 perfectly preserved copies of The Times Picayune, dating back to 1885.

Joseph Makkos

Through his company NOLA DNA, Joseph is setting about packaging and selling the contents of that collection.

Vincent Sciama

Vincent Sciama is also a student of the history of New Orleans, especially our relationship with France. Vincent is France’s representative here. Officially he’s called the Consul General de France en Louisiane. 

Out to Lunch in the Commander's courtyard

As an ambassador on a tour of duty in New Orleans, Vincent has to suffer through French Quarter Festival, Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, and all sorts of other grueling diplomatic duties. On this edition of Out to Lunch Peter Ricchiuti discovers whether that’s as much fun as it sounds.

And, in these days of declining newspaper readership, Peter finds out if you can make more money out of newspapers printed in 1885 than 2018.

Joseph Makkos, Vincent Sciama

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

Realtor Tracey Moore