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Out To Lunch: Off The Shelf

Cheryl DalPozzal
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It's New Orleans

If you grew up in New Orleans there are two things you learned early on: where to make groceries, and how to make red beans.

If you moved here as an adult it doesn't take long to find a favorite grocery store — but making beans is a little more difficult. Maybe you secretly buy canned beans. If you do, you're not alone. Locals do it too. They've been doing it since 1950. That's when the canning company now called Blue Runner started up.

Richard Thomas, President of Blue Runner Foods, is Peter's guest on Out to Lunch.

Peter's other guest represents an equally nontraditional option for grocery shopping. Pamela Senatore is Marketing Manager of the local Costco. Costco is definitely not how your mom'n'em made groceries.

In the You Heard It Here First segment of the show, Jonathan Howes pitches his entrepreneurial startup, Round 1.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.