Restaurants & Retail

As the extent of Hurricane Ida’s impact is revealed, restaurants are getting busy cooking,...

An icy McFlurry or milkshake from one of the dozen or so McDonald’s locations...

A growing number of grocery stores are reopening in the wake of Hurricane Ida, and keeping shelves stocked is keeping distributors slammed.

Many Baton Rouge-area restaurants are still without power and service post Hurricane Ida, but some are up and running again. 

Red Stick Social, inside the restored Electric Depot on Government Street, plans to open...

While most of Baton Rouge was shuttered—and without power—in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, it was bonanza business for those retailers and restaurants that were able to open.

Bluebonnet Parc Shopping Center, near the Mall of Louisiana, was sold to Kentucky-based BBP Partners LLC for $17 million on Wednesday. 

Though the downtown fall events season is looking pretty bleak right now thanks to pandemic-related cancellations and postponements, businesses are holding out hope that the COVID-19 threat will dissipate enough by late October to make holding large events feasible again, says Gabriel Vicknair, interim executive director of the Downtown Development District.

Even as restaurants battle a multitude of issues in the COVID-19 era, a flurry...

Louisiana seafood restaurant Fiery Crab is expanding its products into area supermarkets thanks to the LSU AgCenter’s Food Innovation Institute.