Catching Up - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Sometimes in life you get what you always want. Or what you thought
you wanted. And it turns out to be different than you imagined.
Sometimes, life throws you a curve ball and your path takes a
sudden detour. On this edition of Out to Lunch Stepahanie is
catching up with two of her first Out to Lunch guests, whose
careers have both taken a dramatic turn since she first met them in
the summer of 2015. Richard Hanley is the owner of Hanley s Foods,
a homegrown company whose line of all natural salad dressings is
taking supermarkets by storm. When Stephanie first met Rick, he
said his goal was to be the next Hidden Valley. He s well on his
way last year, Walmart inked a deal with the mom and pop company
and agreed to carry four of Hanley s five dressings at all 120 of
its locations in Louisiana, as well as some of its stores in
Arkansas and Mississippi. Richard and his wife Kate are still the
only two employees at Hanley s and they make all their product by
hand, so keeping up with the damand from a mega big box retailer
has changed the way Richard thinks about his product and doing
business. It s a good problem to have. When Stephanie last met
Patrick Mulhearn, he was director of Celtic Studios here in baton
rouge and a tireless advocate of the state s film industry, which
was thriving for nearly a decade until the legislature in 2015 took
away most of the incentives that had lured Hollywood producers
here. While Patrick was dealing with the downturn in business, the
catastrophic flood of 2016 occurred in the Capital Region, and
Patrick s empty movie studio became a makeshift shelter literally
overnight and he became its public face and voice. It made Patrick
rethink what s important and what he wanted to do with his life.
Earlier this year he decided to leave the dying movie industry and
embark on a new career path. Today, well, that path is at a
crossroads. Photos at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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