Opening soon: Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Red Robin Gourmet Burgers announced today it will open its first Louisiana location at the Mall of Louisiana on Monday, Dec. 15, at 11 a.m. The chain first announced plans for the location in April. A stand-alone building measuring about 6,000 square feet has been built near BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse and Bar Louie for the restaurant. According to permits filed with the city-parish, the building cost about $1 million to construct. Founded in 1969, there are more than 500 Red Robin restaurants across the United States and Canada.
Top honors: The intensive care units at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge have been honored with the 2015 ICU Design Citation Award, recognizing the design of OLOL’s 60-bed ICU located in the recently constructed Heart & Vascular Institute as the most innovative and humanitarian in the United States, the hospital says in a news release issued today. The annual award is co-sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the American Institute of Architects Academy on Architecture for Health.
Bubbling up: Crude oil futures rebounded today from the lowest level in more than five years as the market selloff prompted by OPEC’s failure last week to curb production took a pause. As FuelFix.com reports, futures in New York advanced as much as 4.2% while Brent in London jumped 3.5%. Both grades had their biggest monthly loss in November in almost six years after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries signaled it will leave it to the market to reduce a global glut. Brent for January settlement climbed $2.15, or 3.1%, to $72.30 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange. Read the full story.
