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Paul Maassen
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Out To Lunch
1:12 pm
Mon March 11, 2013

Mom & Pop Mania On Magazine Street

Credit Grant Morris / It's New Orleans
Paul Wilcox, Peter Ricchiuti and Bryan Batt.
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Magazine Street is a seven-mile cavalcade of restaurants, galleries, and boutique stores spanning New Orleans neighborhoods from the Lower Garden District to Uptown. The owners of these businesses are as colorful as their storefronts.

On this edition of Out to Lunch Peter Ricchiuti’s guests are not your traditional mom and pop: Bryan Batt from Hazelnut and Paul Wilcox from Art & Eyes.

Planet Money
10:52 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Planet Money: Into The Future

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Originally published on Fri March 8, 2013 3:18 pm

On today's show: Three stories about the tricky path from the present to the future.

Sales Are Like Drugs. What Happens When A Store Wants Customers To Quit? J.C. Penney's new CEO came in with a bold strategy: No more sales or coupons. It didn't work.

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Planet Money
1:33 pm
Wed March 6, 2013

Planet Money: Business Secrets Of The Amish

Credit Robert Smith / NPR
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Originally published on Tue March 5, 2013 5:36 pm

Higher land prices have forced Amish off the farms and into business. There are thousands of Amish run firms out there making everything from plumbing supplies to furniture.

But running an Amish business poses unique challenges. Many Amish don't connect to the electrical grid. They don't drive cars. They prize modesty, meaning traditional advertising slogans like "best," "fastest," and "greatest" are out. An Amish company has to be creative about these things.

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Out To Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon March 4, 2013

A Tree Mendez RootSuit

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Tree, Colin Grussing (in the bodysuit) and Peter Ricchiuti.
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Peter’s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch are eccentric enough to earn the accolade, “Our most Only In New Orleans show ever.”

Colin Grussing is an otherwise perfectly normal person who dresses in fully body spandex, including masking his face, and sells what he calls his RootSuit to other eccentrics and rabid sports fans. A man named Tree (only), who came to lunch in a wooden bow tie, weaves a magical spell over tourists.

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