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.

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.