New digs: Leo Verde, formerly of Sullivan’s Steakhouse, has joined Wayne Stabiler’s family of restaurants, according to an announcement from Wayne Stabiler Companies. Verde will be working at Stab’s Prime Steak and Seafood on Jefferson Highway. Wayne Stabiler Companies restaurants in the Baton Rouge area include Stab’s Prime, Stab’s Steak and Seafood, Palermo Ristorante, and two locations of The Little Village.
Moving up: The Board of Governors for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Louisiana has chosen former LSU executive Doreen Brasseaux as its new president and CEO, ACECL announced today. Brasseaux has been a private management consultant since 2017, when she retired from LSU. She served for 10 years as the chief executive for the LSU Board of Supervisors and as the assistant vice president for Health Affairs and Medical Education.
Total recall: Ford Motor Co. is recalling about two million pickup trucks after it received reports of a seat-belt equipment malfunction that could cause smoke or fire, marking a setback for its top-selling F-Series product line that generates the bulk of its profit, The Wall Street Journal reports. The recall is for F-150 vehicles between the model years 2015 through 2018. Ford said devices that automatically tighten passenger seat belts, known as pretensioners, “can generate excessive sparks when they deploy” and that it knows of 23 total reports of smoke or fire in North America, the bulk of which took place in the U.S. Read the full story.
