It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

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