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It's New Orleans Out to Lunch

New Orleans' business podcast & radio show with Peter Ricchiuti on WWNO 89.9FM & on your podcast app

12/01/2025

Kicking off the holiday season with the most feel-good, populist, crowd-pleasing Out to Lunch of the year: Puppies and Pastries. Meet Troy Bergeron, Founder of Uber for dogs (no kidding) Doggie Bus, and Samantha Weiss, Co-Owner of Ayu Bakehouse. Listen in on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/11/30/puppies-and-pastries/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

11/17/2025

Peter Ricchiuti counts down the days till he's replaced by a better looking and cheaper AI host. Meantime he's talking with Rich Simmerman whose company Cantaloupe has an AI bot called Clio who interviews job applicants and Ralph Whalen whose company Benzait creates AI for healthcare providers, from clinics to hospital systems. Listen in on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/2025/11/16/hi-how-can-i-help-you/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

11/10/2025

Jaclyn McCabe walks the walk - she's a life coach with a life coach and she's changing her life, oh, and maybe yours too if you sign up for her "Dream It Create It" course. If your dream includes writing a book, Kerrie Ann Nauseda can help - she's an author coach, helping you take your your dream all the way from your first note on a cocktail napkin to your book on a shelf and even a best-seller list. Jaclyn and Kerrie Ann join Peter Ricchiuti Out to Lunch at The Columns Hotel and you can join them on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & at https://itsneworleans.com/2025/11/09/words-and-pictures/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

10/30/2025

How many New Orleanians does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one if you're Anthony Robins Chairman of the Board of Tala, a UK-based lighting design company who have reimagined the lightbulb and the fixtures to put it in. Jessica Walker has re-imagined hotels, weddings and more as co-founder of Workshop WDXL (the "XL" are Roman numerals so it's pronounced "WD40") who designed Felicity Church, The Mitzie, and other developments that have landed the company architectural awards. Meet Anthony and Jessica on Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/10/25nola-halo

10/27/2025

How many New Orleanians does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one if you're Anthony Robins, Chairman of the Board of UK lighting company Tala who have reimagined the lightbulb and the fixtures to put it in. Jessica Walker has re-imagined hotels, weddings and more as co-founder of Workshop WDXL (the XL are Roman numerals so it's pronounced "WD40") who designed Felicity Church, The Mitzie, and other developments that have landed the company architectural awards. Meet Anthony and Jessica on Out to Lunch, on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/10/25/nola-halo/
📷 Blake Langlinais

10/20/2025

The Upside of AI - two New Orleans entrepreneurs and their AI creations - Dan Crowley's AI bot, Chuck, sells gravel at Hello Gravel, Dave Maher's AI bot, Seemore, is your vacatigon guide to 30A SoWal and the beaches of Walton County. On Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti, on your podcast app on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/10/19/the-upside-of-ai/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

10/13/2025

Rami Bader's Oceana Grill Group owns 7 restaurants in New Orleans, Scott Borne's New Orleans Record Press makes almost every vinyl record local musicians put out. Rami and Scott have lunch at The Columns Hotel with Peter Ricchiuti. Listen to Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/10/12/more-food-n-music/
📷Jill Lafleur Photography

09/22/2025

Skye Jackson walked away from a corporate job to become a poet, Crystal Burke's perimenoapuse inspired founding . Meet Skye and Crystal on Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM & https://itsneworleans.com/2025/09/20/the-pursuit/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

09/15/2025

On this week's Out to Lunch, duck eggs and money! More specifically, Andres Barcelo and his farmers markets, Barcelo Gardens Fresh Market, and Leigh Guglielmo from Republic Business Credit - they lend money when banks won't. Listen to Out to Lunch on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/09/14/cabbage/

09/08/2025

A haircut's a haircut and no matter how beautiful cut flowers might be they'll be dead in a week, right? Wrong on both of those! Murray Roth has invented a whole new way to cut hair with his patented Flex 360 Shears, and Stephanie Tarrant makes flowers last forever at Crypt Flowers. Meet Murray and Stephanie on this week's Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/09/07/crypt-flowers-flex/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

07/28/2025

If you're looking to make a bold statement meet Nate from Big Sexy Neon and if you're looking for something more subtle, meet Chad from Graci Interiors - on Out to Lunch, on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM or https://itsneworleans.com/2025/07/27/neon-sofa/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

07/21/2025

Robin Brou's company Marillyn In The Moon takes local fabric design far away from "snoballs, crawfish and cutsie" and makes it into beautiful records of culture and history - from stripes that are streetcar tracks to what look like random squiggles that turn out to be hurricane tracks, complete with labels like "Camille" and "Katrina." You can buy these and other unique, quality fabrics at Chateau Sew & Sew where owner Laura Fenner also teaches sewing. Meet Robin and Laura on Out to Lunch, on your podcast app, on New Orleans Public Radio 89.9FM and https://itsneworleans.com/2025/07/20/stitches/
📷 Jill Lafleur Photography

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Out to Lunch with Peter Ricchiuti

Out to Lunch is a pioneering podcast and radio show about New Orleans business. Starting with the local entrepreneurial boom in 2011, Peter Richiutti’s weekly table at Commander’s Palace restaurant has become the place where NOLA business people from every imaginable aspect of local business meet for lunch and candid conversation.