It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

There are two types of people in the world. The type that think 3D printing is the new industrial revolution. And the type that says, What the heck is 3D printing There's a local 3D printing company called Entrescan that's hoping to convert the type B folks to Type A with a phone app called Scandy.

Where are you right now At home In the car In a coffee shop At school It doesn t matter. Wherever you are, with a small piece of consumer electronic equipment you could also be sitting at the table with Peter Ricchiuti at Commander s Palace. Or Peter could be sitting next to you in the car, or in your kitchen. This cutting edge hologram technology is based in what s called Virtual Reality. It s not science fiction. It s coming soon to a Best Buy near you. One of the pioneers of Virtual Reality in New Orleans is Peter s guest today on Out to Lunch Ryan Becnel from R and D Design. When you re in Best Buy looking at the boxes of VR equipment, the boxes might be looking back at you. That s courtesy of cutting edge consumer behavior observation technology from a New Orleans company called Grok and Banter. The company s founder, Staacy Cannon, is also Peter s guest on this edition of Out to Lunch. We re talking cutting edge technology that s changing the virtual world and the real world, from right here in New Orle

Wherever you are right now, take a look around. There s a fair chance that someone near you is staring at their phone. They re not talking into it, they re writing on it. People love writing so much they re even texting while driving at highway speed. You d have to really be in love with writing to risk your life for "OMG." Peter s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch are very connected with the current business of writing. Geoff Parker is the author of Platform Revolution, a bestselling biz book that explains how new economy companies like Uber and Facebook succeed. And how you can run your business using the secrets they ve discovered. In her blog, The Distillery, Summer Suleiman chronicles true and sometimes less than pretty stories about the not so glamorous world of starting your own business. Peter, Summer, and Geoff talk about how you can build a successful business, and how you can possibly ruin your life in the process. And a couple of useful tips on how to avoid that. Photos at Commander s Palace

It would be hard to find anybody in America who doesn t know that there s a link between diet and health. It would, however, be no problem to find a hundred people on your street who want to eat healthier but don t. Our usual excuses are healthy food is harder to find, it s expensive, and it doesn t taste good. Betty Archote s company, Healthy Course Meals, is out to change that. Healthy Course Meals make affordable, tasty, balanced meals and they deliver them to you. If you currently weigh more than you d like because you recently had a baby, you might be finding it s not as easy as it used to be to shed those extra pounds. That s where Jenn Lormond s program, Mommy Movement, comes in. Jenn is an exercise physiologist, trainer, and mother, who s literally written the book on getting in shape physically and emotionally after childbirth. Jenn Lormond and Betty Archote share a healthy lunch and some enlightening conversation with Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch. Photos at Commander s Palace by A

Running a sports business in New Orleans comes with a number of unique challenges. Ask the Voodoo, the Jazz, or for many years the struggling Saints. On the other hand, the New Orleans Zephyrs seem to have found a winning formula. Winning enough for a new ownership to take over the team and unveil plans for an optimistic future. The team s new Assistant General Manager, Donna Light, is Peter s guest on this edition of Out to Lunch. Mark Olalde is Director of Operations for the recently unveiled Xtreme Xperience NOLA. Xtreme Xperience allows anyone with a drivers licence to get in a high performance race car and race around a professional car race track in Avondale. Peter s talking talking New Orleans baseball and New Orleans motor racing. Photos in the wine room at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

As you know, statistics can be twisted to mean anything we want. How about this computation If every one of the 9 million tourists who visit New Orleans was to visit one of the 400,000 locals, you d only have 23 visitors a year. You ve probably had more folks than that over to watch a Saints game, right So. How would you like to entertain tourists and get paid for it That s the principle behind Patricia Maher s new business an app called Fuhwe. Patricia explains to Peter what the name of the app means and what it all means for locals and "explorers" as Fuhwe ans are called, on this edition of Out to Lunch. Dr. Lowry Curley has a revolutionary idea too though Peter can t explain the math on this one. Lowry s company, Axo Sim, is creating human life. On a silicon chip. Yes, you read that correctly. The company s slogan is "Nerve on a chip" and it s not just a crazy idea they are actually doing it. Two New Orleans revolutionaries, Patricia Maher and Lowry Curley, join Peter Ricchiuti for a fascinating look at a

Here in the United States we like to think of ourselves as world leaders. But we re not ahead of everybody in everything. England, Germany, India, Israel, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand have all elected women presidents and prime ministers. In business in the U.S. we re still fighting for equal pay and figuring out what equality means from bathrooms to board rooms. And so as it has done many times before America turns to New Orleans to lead the way. We brought the nation opera, jazz, Mardi Gras, and the go cup. And now we re giving them women owned and women centric businesses. Namely, The Girls Guide to New Orleans, and Dashing Bicycles. Kelly Claverie from The Girls Guide joins Peter for this edition of Out to Lunch. Along with Marin Tockman from Dashing Bicycles. Peter, Marin, and Kelly are talking about women in business, businesses that are all about women, and the relationship between locals, tourists, women, bikes and the planet. Photos at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

On May 22, 1796, while George Washington was still president, the first opera performance in America was staged here in New Orleans. These days most of us think of New Orleans music as small bands playing jazz and funk. But orchestral music has been played here continuously from that night in 1796. Today, Carlos Miguel Prieto leads a classical music orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic. Guitarist, composer and co founder of The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Jonathan Freilich is the founder and leader of The Naked Orchestra. The LPO plays 120 performances a year and is the orchestra for the New Orleans Opera and Ballet companies. The Naked Orchestra has been playing since 1997 and features some of New Orleans greatest jazz musicians. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Carlos Miguel Prieto and Jonathan Freilich talk with Peter Ricchiuti about a different side of the New Orleans music business. Photos at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

If you drive a car, at some point in the next few days you re probably going to need gas. If you fill up at the pump at a convenience store, your experience will never be the same after you listen to this edition of Out to Lunch. Peter Ricchiuti is lunching with Ethan Cheramie, founder of PetroTV. That s the company that owns and programs the TVs that play commercials on top of gas pumps. You might think you re not paying any attention to those commercials. But wait till you find out what happens to your purchasing habits after you get gas. Here s another surprise. Do you know what goes on at the corner of Poydras and Camp Street in New Orelans Inside a regular looking office building that most of us call "the Pan Am Building" is the world headquarters of an international insurance company that stretches across the entire American continent and into the Caribbean. The Chairman, CEO and President of Pan American Life Insurance, Jose Suquet, joins Peter on Out to Lunch. In a city filled with fascinating tales a

In business, and other organizations, we hear about "mission drift." That s a condition where the organization loses track of what it set out to accomplish. The way to re focus is to get back to basics. That's what we re doing today on Out to Lunch. We're talking about three very basic elements sunshine, water, and dirt. And we're looking at how we can harness these 3 elements to re focus us on one of our missions as a city that we seem to have drifted away from resurrecting the 9th Ward. James Mazzuto is Director of Make It Right Solar. Marianne Cufone is an expert on urban and suburban farming, Executive Director of Recirculating Farms and Growing Local NOLA. Becca Margolis has an Okra farm in the 9th Ward, Okra Foods. What would a re focus on sunshine, water, and dirt look like in New Orleans Could a back to basics agricultural revolution revive the Lower 9th Ward Photos at

If you ve ever had folks come visit you in New Orleans from out of town, they ve probably said, "If I lived here I d put on a hundred pounds." They re not the folks who come here to visit ProTac Fitness. Those folks say, "If I lived here I could benchpress another hundred pounds." Protac Fitness is a New Orleans business that trains people to get in shape for the US military and law enforcement. It s founder and CEO, Canaan Heard, joins Peter on this edition of Out to Lunch. Beth Winkler is also in the physical fitness business. But rather than get you into peak fitness and fighting condition, Beth s happy if she can just get you to walk around without pain. Beth is co owner of a local chain of physical therapy clinics called Magnolia Physical Therapy. This Out to Lunch is all about how to kick ass, and what to do after your ass gets kicked. Photos in the wine room at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

In the grand scheme of things, it s difficult to know at the time which small decision you make might have enormous consequences. Like the time in 1978 when a social worker from Des Moines Iowa decied to open a small coffee shop on Maple Street, in Uptown New Orleans. That coffee shop, PJ s, was to become a coffee empire. And the young social worker behind it, Phyllis Jordan, was to become one of Louisiana s most successful entrepreneurs and the pioneer of a new wave of coffee consciousness. Phyllis sold PJ s in 2002, but since then she has been anything but idle. Among other pursuits, Phyllis guided The Green Project for close to a decade. And she s thrown herself into radio and classical music. Phyllis is Chair of the Executive Council of WWNO and runs the Symphony Book Fair a vital revenue stream for the Louisiana Philharmonic. She s also the Louisiana Philharmonic s volunteer Marketing Manager. Twenty eight years before the first PJ s, in 1950, Warren Palmisano started building houses in New Orleans. Toda

Over the past few years you ve probably been hearing the word "entrepreneur" a lot around New Orleans. As business incubators like The Idea Village grow, and we hear success stories about all kinds of wildly imaginative local startups, you might wonder how someone gets to be an entrepreneur. Maybe you have a great idea for a business. Have you ever wondered how you get to be one of the hip crowd hanging out at coffee shops talking about your business plan Do you even know what a business plan looks like Peter Richiutti s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch are both dedicated to taking you from your bright idea to global domination. And they re both right here in New Orleans. Scott Whittaker is a member of the board of the NO LA Angel Network a bunch of folks who invest in great local ideas. Kevin Wilkins is founder and Managing Director of Trepwise a kind of training wheels company or silent partner for your business. This edition of Out to Lunch is a free class at Entrepreneurial University. If you re an

When you look back at the human form at Venus de Milo from 100 BC, or Michelangelo s David from the 1500 s the ideal human body hasn t changed much at all. But with the advent of progress like the automobile, and the ability to gather food while sitting in an automobile, retaining our ideal body shape has led to all kinds of creative ideas. The latest to arrive here in New Orleans is called Orange Theory Fitness. It s a workout based on what they call the science of post exercise oxygen consumption, or EPOC. Elle Mahoney is the Louisiana franchise holder of Orange Theory Fitness. Elle has opened her first studio in Mid City and is expanding across the city and the state. Isabelle Cossart is the owner of an all organic New Orleans orange orchard, called Isabelle s Orange Orchard, and a company called Tours by Isabelle which provides, as you may have guessed, tours by Isabelle. This episode of Out to Lunch owes as much to Sesame Street as it does to Wall Street. Brought to us by the color orange, it s a look at

Today we ve relocated our lunch table from our usual spot in the Garden District to downtown New Orleans. We re at Idea Village s annual Entrepreneur Week. Idea Village is an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to identify, support, and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans. They describe Entrepreneur Week as an annual business festival, celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, and advanced thinking. Summer Suleiman. Summer moved back to her native New Orleans after working at CNN as an international news producer. Idea Village was smart enough to snag her and today Summer is the creator and curator of an online blog called The Distillery a unique community meeting place for entrepreneurs with an interest in the unvarnished truth about business. Lowry Curley turned his Tulane Ph.D study of building a human cell into the ground breaking pharma testing technology, AxoSim. Stacy Cannon somehow miraculously turned a background in sociology into Grok and Banter, a tech based company that is a

There s so much music and film in New Orleans, we could do a weekly show exclusively about show business. Even if we were to do that, this edition of Out to Lunch would still be out of the ordinary. Peter s lunch guests are in very non traditional aspects of the entertainment industry. Mike Dardant is a magician. His abilities with sleight of hand, comedy, and pickpocketing have earned him International awards, as well as character roles and consulting jobs on films and music videos. Janet Wilson is Executive Director of an improv comedy troupe called Funny Bones. Don t call Ticketmaster looking for tickets to a Funny Bones show. Funny Bones performances are free. But you have to be child in a hospital to get to see them. New Orleans is home to all kinds of new and innvoative entrepreneurial businesses. Comedy and magic hearken back to an age and centuries past that pre date the internet and NOLA the brain gain, but Janet and Mike are taking both comedy and magic to, literally, places they have never been. Ph

One of our favorite foods here in Louisiana is raw oysters. Oysters are also the favorite place to hang out for a couple of bacteria that are very unfriendly to human beings. Notwithstanding, nobody in Louisiana has gotten sick from a raw oyster in some time. The reason for that is a company called AmeriPure. AmeriPure kills the bad bacteria in oysters without affecting the oyster s taste. Pat Fahey is the co founder of AmeriPure. Do you ever decide to go for the healthy option at lunch, and have a salad What typically happens next is you douse the salad with a delicious dressing filled with enough bad stuff to undo the health benefits of your good intentions. Richard Hanley s company, Hanley s Foods, makes salad dressingsas healthy as your salad, that taste as good as the unhealthy salad dressing. If you listen to Out to Lunch you ve heard Peter say "All the music on Out to Lunch is written and perfromed by Mitch Forman." Mitch drops by for lunch with some music business news there is apparently a way for mu

It used to be that a single income could support a family including owning a home. After 35 years of employment you could retire from the same company you d been at all that time, with a pension. Times sure have changed. Now most of us need a savvy work and personal strategy just to navigate our way into the middle class. Peter Ricchiuti s guests on Out to Lunch today are all about helping you find ways to achieve the American dream and hold onto it. Cullan Maumas and the New Orleans Redevelopment Fund redevelop New Orleans neighborhoods. Jamie Wine and Energy Wise deliver regular folks cheaper energy options that are normally only available to people with greater resources. Sometimes business is about more than making money. It s about making a difference. Cullan Maumas and Jamie Wine are New Orleans entrepreneurs who are equal part "New Orleans" and "entrepreneur." Photos at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

Just by living in New Orleans you can naturally develop a lot of useful skills. Dodging potholes and catching Mardi Gras beads improves hand eye coordination. Peeling crawfish increases dexterity. One of the skills you will not have learned growing up or living here, is surfing. That s about to change. Thanks to Becky Hardin s City Surf Fitness. City Surf Fitness is a new way to get fit. Only steps away from Uptown restaurants and bars, you hop on a surfboard and ride a simulated wave. In Mid City, Jeff Lakey can set you up with a stand up paddleboard. On the Bayou. Or you can take one out on the lake. Jeff moved back to his native New Orleans from San Diego in 2010 and bought stand up paddleboarding with him, founding NOLA Paddleboards. Peter Ricchiuti talks surfing, paddleboarding and takes listener questions on this edition of Out to Lunch. Photos at Commander s Palace by Alison Moon.

New businesses are springing up in New Orleans all the time. Some of them you may not have heard of. Others you can t miss. There s a good chance you ve seen an MHM Urgent Care clinic open up somewhere near you. There are currently 13 of them in and around New Orleans. Co founder and CEO of MHM, Keith Leblanc, joins Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch. Dr. Mignonne Mary is the founder and principal physician at The Remedy Room a different kind of urgent care, and wellness clinic, on St Charles Avenue. Dr. Mary specializes in Infusion Therapy vitamins and minerals are delivered by IV for rehydration, detoxification, and other wellness therapy. Allegedly, a moderate amount of alcohol daily can be preventive medical care. When you run out of your medicine you can now use Drizly an app based liquor delivery business. Drizly s New Orleans Market Manager Evan Mactavish is at the Out to Lunch table today too. You can be a laid back New Orleanian 23 hours of the day but when you need it right now, Mignonn