When you have a small business in a small market, like Acadiana, you’re facing challenges today that nobody has faced before you. There is no previous generation to turn to for advice on how to compete with online retailers. Or how to market to your local customers who might live next door but are getting all…

There seems to be a never-ending debate about healthcare in the United States.  In this debate there are four main parties. The patient. Government. Insurance companies. And doctors. Despite their differences of opinion, all of these parties claim to agree on one simple thing. And that is, medical decisions are best made by doctors. Despite that, the…

There seems to be a never ending debate about healthcare in the United States. In this debate there are four main parties. The patient. Government. Insurance companies. And doctors. Despite their differences of opinion, all of these parties claim to agree on one simple thing. And that is, medical decisions are best made by doctors….

After the oil crash of the mid 80’s, everybody around here realized that for the economy to come back, and for us to have a chance of surviving a future downturn, we’d need to diversify. In other words, we’d have to start up businesses here that employ people in fields other than oil and gas. That’s…

One of the things we like to do on this show is introduce you to people who have businesses and occupations you might not be aware of. Or that are, shall we say “out of the ordinary.” In that regard, we may have outdone ourselves with this edition of Out to Lunch.  Rusty Wilson is a…

We hear a lot these days about how we’re all living in our own bubble. As more of us create our own TV channels with Netflix, our own radio stations with Spotify, and get our news from personalized social media feeds, we no longer have the kind of shared experiences we used to have, where we…

We launched Out to Lunch Acadiana in July 2015. When we went on the air, KRVS in Lafayette was – as it still is – a mostly music station. We didn’t know if we’d have a single listener to a show about Acadiana business. Even knowing that, our very first guests, Matt Stuller from Stuller Inc…

As social animals, we humans tend to ask each other two main questions. “How are you?” And “What do you do?” When we ask “How are you?” we’re looking a one-word answer, something like “Fine,” not a full medical report. But the response to “What do you do?” tells us a lot of information about…

The expression “the bottom line” comes from business. It refers to the bottom line of a balance sheet – which is the total sum of money you’ve made or lost. In general conversation we take it to mean the absolute fundamental basis of something. On this edition of Out to Lunch Acadiana, Aileen and guests are talking…

For the last couple of hundred years we’ve been making food in Acadiana that tastes totally different from anything you find anywhere else in the world. But, with the notable exception of New Iberia’s Tabasco – which is a hugely successful international brand – it’s only been relatively recently that Acadian food manufacturers have tried exporting…