It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

While New Orleans gets the lion s share of attention for being Louisiana s premier tourist destination, Baton Rouge has some offerings of its own. Michael Day is General Manager of the Raising Cane s River Center, Baton Rouge s premier event facility. Built in 1977, the River Center has more than 14 thousand square meters of exhibition space, a 12 thousand seat facility for concerts, performances and sporting events, a ballroom and meeting rooms and a separate fine arts theater where the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and Baton Rouge Ballet perform, among others. In the fall of 2016, the River Center became the Raising Cane s River Center, when Raising Cane s bought the naming rights for the River Center for 3.87 million, a deal that was designed to help generate a little cash that could be used to help refurbish the center. Michael has been at the helm since 2015. David Beard works right across the street from Michael at the USS Kidd Veterans Museum, where he is Executive Director. The Kidd is a World War II