Out to Lunch is recorded each week live over lunch at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans’ Garden District. One of the reasons Commander’s has been in business for over 130 years is that each time we come here for lunch it’s just as good as it was the last time. Imagine if you had to…

Common sense is difficult to define. In business, people with unique and quirky ideas can run into a lot of negativity based on “common sense”. A few years ago it was the stupid idea of putting a camera in a phone. Common sense said it would never work – people who want to make a…

When people visit New Orleans and drive in from the airport, they assume they’re in New Orleans from the minute they figure out how to get on the I-10 till they get to their French Quarter accommodation. If you live in New Orleans, you wouldn’t say you were in New Orleans till you got to……

The national movement away from bad eating habits has swept into New Orleans. In the town that cholesterol forgot we ve started demanding to know more about what s in what we eat and take more care in selecting what we prepare at home for ourselves and our families. Seth Hamstead opened full service butcher…

There are a lot of great reasons to live in New Orleans, but “making money” is not typically at the top of the list. Even though the business climate is undeniably better here now than we’ve seen in decades, money is not what drives most of us. But of course, we can’t live without it….