It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

South Louisiana is famous for its food. There is seemingly no end to the number of new and interesting restaurants that capitalize on this truly great aspect of our local culture. But restaurants and caterers aren’t the only ones in the culinary sector. Foodie entrepreneurs in Baton Rouge are coming up with all sorts of new products and services using their creative culinary abilities to fill a gap or carve a new niche. Take, for example, Mary Joy Fasullo and Ebony McAlister. Mary Joy is Marketing and Communications Strategist for Focus Foods, a Baton Rouge-based company that provides meals to schools, nursing homes, disaster victims and residential customers. Focus Foods started in 2019 as a network of former food truck owners who began manufacturing easy-to-prepare, frozen meals. It has grown to now provide 30,000 meals a week for K-12 students across seven parish school districts, and operates in partnership with agencies like Meals on Wheels and nursing homes to provide meals to seniors across 11 pa