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A culinary icon reflects the struggle to rebuild a city
By Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
October 16, 2005
NEW ORLEANS — The maitre d’ is dead.
He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New Orleans filled to the ceiling with fetid water.
Most [...]

Get out of your shelters and get back to work!
We are planning on starting the cleanup on November 2nd and re-open asap after that. The cleanup should only take a couple of days. Please contact Neil on his cell phone @ 5040-319-4369 or Lee on his cell @
504-250-4835 to let us know what [...]

We are going on road trip with the little one to show him off to everyone across the country and see as many friends & family as possible. If we can bunk with any of you please let me know. Our plans are not set in stone, especially West of Chicago. But [...]

After careful consideration Eman and I have decided to postpone the opening of the restaurant until the city has recovered to a degree that we feel we will provide us with a clientelle. Our best guess at this point is that by early November life may be closer to normal and we should be able [...]

Fast-food restaurants hungry for workers
One store offering $6,000 ’signing bonus’
By Keith Darcé
Business writer
A cutthroat, post-hurricane labor market has sent wages skyrocketing in the fast-food industry and prompted some of the New Orleans region’s biggest chains to offer workers thousands of dollars in signing bonuses, perks typically associated with higher-paying white-collar jobs.
Burger King recruiters have been [...]