Article: Back to Business.(Louisiana Restaurant Association)

Tom Weatherly, Vice President of Communications and Research, Louisiana Restaurant Association, Metairie, La.

In New Orleans, we have just closed our annual trade show, the Louisiana Foodservice EXPO, in which our equipment manufacturers, distributors and suppliers played a huge role. It was a reunion of sorts for our industry, coming nearly one year after Hurricane Katrina rolled onshore Aug. 29, 2005, and brought with it so much heartache and misery.

A lot has been written about Katrina's impact on the Crescent City's world-famous restaurants. It seems like I, for one, have been writing about nothing else this year. What most people haven't read, and may never know ...

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