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Out To Lunch: Söpö Tchoup

Patti Dunn and Peter Ricchiuti.
Chet Overall
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It's New Orleans
Patti Dunn and Peter Ricchiuti.
Patti Dunn and Peter Ricchiuti.
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It's New Orleans
Patti Dunn and Peter Ricchiuti.

Every time a new mobile device comes out we can put more stuff on it. These days we don't need to carry a calendar, phone book, yellow pad, book, map, magazine, music player, camera, DVD player, laptop, or even a heart monitor.Out To Lunch: Sopo Tchoup

  So what, exactly, are we putting in these bags and backpacks we all lug around? Somebody who knows the answer to that is Patti Dunn. Patti's New Orleans company,TchoupIndustries, makes bags and backpacks.

If you have the right font on your device, Söpö has two dots over the "o's" like Motörhead and Mötley Crue. But Söpö is not a band, it's the name of a store on a retail-challenged stretch of Carrollton Avenue where they sell Tchoup bags and other New Orleans made artisan products.

Robin Borne from Söpö joins Peter on this edition of Out to Lunch.

In the entrepreneur segment of the show, Peter introduces Crutcher Reiss and his startup biz, My Mix Nutrition. Hear a longer conversation with Crutcher, Peter, Robin and Patti here.

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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.