Shedding: Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar has sold its catering business to Wayne Stabiler Companies, founder and CEO Brandon Landry says. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move, says Landry, allows Walk-On’s to concentrate on its growing restaurant business and franchise operations. Once the acquisition is complete—a process expected to take several months—the catering business will transition over to Stabiler’s existing companies, Catering Cajun and Le Creole. Read more.
Airbag death: An unidentified person in Baton Rouge is the 20th to die worldwide due to exploding Takata airbag inflators. The person was driving a 2004 Honda Civic when the crash occurred on July 10, 2017, according to Honda. The inflator apparently had been salvaged from a 2002 Civic and was among the most dangerous made by the company. Nineteen auto and truck makers are recalling up to 69 million inflators in the U.S. and 100 million worldwide because they can explode with too much force and hurl shrapnel at drivers and passengers. Read more.
Pipeline network: Houston-based Tellurian is proposing to build a $7 billion network of natural gas pipelines from West Texas’ Permian Basin to liquefied natural gas export hubs in southeast Louisiana, the Houston Chronicle reports. The system also would include a pipeline from East Texas’ and North Louisiana’s Haynesville shale down to the same hub just north of Lake Charles. All of these would tie into existing pipeline systems and another planned
