Blitz!

We often lump "tourism and hospitality" together because they
seem to go together, but like other conjunctive categories like
"sales and marketing" or "chicken and waffles,"  "tourism
and hospitality" is a vast umbrella under which there are a
plethora of specialties. within these sub-groups, entrepreneurs
have created businesses providing services in a multitude of
innovative ways.


Take, for example, Patrick Healey. Patrick is owner of Premium
Tours and Transportation, which, among other excursions, has a
bus ride called Baton Rouge Blitz.


Baton Rouge Blitz is a direct luxury bus service that runs from
New Orleans to Tiger Stadium on LSU Tigers game days. The
company’s executive coaches depart from downtown New Orleans
hotels and arrives at the game in plenty of time to allow for
tailgating, then returns patrons later that night.


Patrick founded Premium Tours in 2015 and besides the football
fan bus also runs other unique outings including a tour of local
breweries and "Gators and Guns," a tour that takes customers to a
shooting range to shoot machine guns then brings them on a swamp
tour.


Patrick originally moved to Louisiana from his native southern
California in 2007 to help with the rebuilding effort after
Hurricane Katrina and has apparently totally adapted to the
Southeast lifestyle! 


Tremaine Devine is better known as Chef Tre, the owner of Tres’
Street Kitchen, which provides high-end gourmet meals cooked in
your home, catering, and a food truck.


Chef Tre grew up on the south side of Chicago and had to overcome
a lot of the challenges facing many kinds in the inner city. But
he found his passion in the culinary arts, which he originally
learned from his grandparents and would go on to study, formally,
at the Louisiana Culinary Institute.


Today, Chef Tre wants to give back and dedicate his life to
building a legacy for his family, which is the north star behind
Tres Street Kitchen. 


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the
Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by by Erik Otts at
itsbatonrouge.la


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