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.

Rehab 911 – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

The new “gig economy” is a combination of self-employment and contract work. It’s a model pioneered by Uber and Lyft.

The same model is finding its way into other occupations. You may not have considered ambulance drivers and the ER fitting into this concept. But that’s exactly what a New Orleans company, Ready Responders, is pioneering. It’s kind of Uber for the EMT business.

Justin Dangel

Justin Dangel, CEO and co-founder of Ready Responders, joinis Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch.

Chris McMahon

Chris McMahonChris is President and CEO of Longbranch Recovery. Reportedly in Louisiana there are more prescriptions for opioids than there are residents of the state. However, if you have a problem with drug addiction there are very few places to turn to for help. Longbranch runs an outpatient clinic and a new residential facility for people struggling with addiction.

Justin Dangel, Chris McMahon, Peter Ricchiuti

Peter, Justin and Chris dissect alternative healthcare over lunch at Commander’s Palace.

Photos by Kallistia Bilinsky