It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

Over the last few years the word disrupt has found its way into the American business vocabulary. Disruption occurs when a new company with a new way of doing things changes business as usual. Amazon, for example, has disrupted retail. Disrupt does not necessarily mean destroy. Amazon has hurt some brick and mortar stores, but it's also given countless small suppliers access to large markets, and put most of America on first name terms with their UPS driver. On today s Out to Lunch, Peter Ricchiuti introduces us to two local disrupters. Tom Hayes is New Orleans General Manager of Uber. Uber is an international and nationwide car service that disrupts the taxi business which it is in the process of doing here in New Orleans. Steve Beatty is Editor of The Lens. The Lens is an investigative reporting organization that is disrupting local news media. You'd think the New Orleans newspaper world was disrupted enough already. The Times Picayune changed the whole concept of the daily paper by going to 3 days a week w