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.

Hubig en Espanol – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Hubig’s isn’t what the rest of the country thinks of as “pie”.

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It’s a single-serving deep fried envelope of home-made pastry and pie filling, sealed in a wax paper bag.  And it’s not sold in bakeries, but in all kinds of stores all over town. After Katrina, the return of Hubig’s Pies was heralded as a milestone in our recovery. And so it was a community tragedy on July 27th 2012 when Hubig’s factory burned down.

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Co-owner and manager of daily operations Drew Ramsey is facing his century-old company’s challenge of a lifetime, rebuilding after a devastating fire destroyed Hubig’s Pies.

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Tortillas account for 38% of the bread business in the United States. There are only 3 states who don’t manufacture tortillas – Mississippi, Wyoming and Louisiana. Today you can cross Louisiana off that list. Rod Olsen jumped ship from Zapp’s to launch Hola Nola Foods, La’s first and only tortilla makers.

shop local style

In the Pay It Forward segment of the show Peter, Rod and Drew discuss Shop Local Style – an online marketplace bringing Magazine Street to the world.