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.

Joieful Steamboat – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Even if you’ve lived in New Orleans your whole life and you know everything about the place, there’s a good chance there’s one thing you don’t know. And that is, what it’s like to be a tourist.

Some tourists just want to know what it’s like to be you. For those people, looking for a unique local’s perspective to their New Orleans experience, there’s a specialized travel agency called Joieful.

Aaron Dirks

The founder and CEO of Joieful, Aaron Dirks, joins Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch. 

Gordon Stevens

Gordon Stevens knows more about tourists than almost anybody in the crescent city. Gordon is President, CEO and co-owner of the New Orleans Steamboat Company.

Yes, they own The Natchez. They also own the tour company Gray Line New Orleans, the 3 locations of Café Beignet in the French Quarter, and Visit New Orleans.

Gordon Stevens, Aaron Dirks, Peter Ricchiuti

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

Realtor Tracey Moore