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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Louis Petit: Restaurateur, Entrepreneur
Description: Ep 273 | Aired 12/4/2021
My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is Little Rock restaurant royalty, Mr. Louis Petit.
Chef Petit’s Arkansas folklore began in 1975, when Jacque and Suzanne Treton decided to bring their European cuisine to Little Rock. Their restaurant was aptly, and now famously, called Jacque and Suzanne’s on the top floor of the First Commercial Bank Building in downtown Little Rock.
The Treton’s first order of business was to hire restaurant manager Paul Bash, who wanted a European staff to run the restaurant. This is when he hired Mr. Louis Petit, a Belgia...