Coops Place

What Coops Place does

Coop's Place is a single-location Cajun/Creole bar and restaurant operating at 1109 Decatur Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, established in 1983 and owned by the closely held entity J Coop, Inc. The establishment serves an adult (21+) walk-in clientele on a strict no-reservations basis, offering signature dishes including Seafood Gumbo, Rabbit & Sausage Jambalaya, and Cajun Fried Chicken, with operating hours spanning Tuesday through Sunday and the venue closed on Wednesdays. Pricing is positioned as "down home" rather than premium-tourist, and the bar program is part of the core experience.

The company generates revenue through two streams: in-person food and beverage transactions at the restaurant (the dominant stream), and direct-to-consumer e-commerce sales of the "Cookin' with Coop" cookbook at $17 per unit, fulfilled exclusively via USPS Priority Mail through the company's own storefront at coopsplace.net. There is no third-party delivery integration, no online ordering platform, no loyalty program, and no reservation system. Marketing is primarily organic — word-of-mouth, the brand's 41-year tenure on Decatur Street, tagline "Where the not-so-elite meet to eat," and inclusion in the Zagat Guide New Orleans — supplemented by an owned Instagram account (@coopsplacenola).

Coop's Place operates as a privately held, founder/family-owned independent restaurant with no disclosed venture or institutional capital, no parent company, no subsidiary structure, no franchise operations, and no second location. The business model is asset-light but entirely dependent on foot traffic at one physical address, and the company has no technology platform beyond its basic website. There are no public financials, no headcount disclosures, and no documented growth or expansion initiatives in the source material.

Name

Coops Place

Legal name

J Coop, Inc

Website

https://coopsplace.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Coop's Place is a single-location Cajun/Creole bar and restaurant in New Orleans' French Quarter, operating since 1983 under J Coop, Inc., serving adults 21+ via walk-in service and selling a companion cookbook online.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurants

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Casual Dining Restaurants (THAFACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Neighborhood Bars & Taverns (CRANACAA)

Keywords

• Casual dining restaurants
• Cajun Creole cuisine
• French Quarter bar
• Cookbook retail
• New Orleans restaurant

Headquarters

HQ city

New Orleans

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant food and beverage sales: On-site dining and bar service generating revenue from food and drink sales. Customers pay per transaction at the restaurant.
2. Cookbook sales: Sale of 'Cookin' with Coop' cookbook containing recipes for popular menu items including Seafood Gumbo, Rabbit & Sausage Jambalaya, and Cajun Fried Chicken. Ships via USPS Priority Mail.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Coop's Place is a French Quarter bar and restaurant serving Cajun/Creole dishes such as Seafood Gumbo, Rabbit & Sausage Jambalaya, and Cajun Fried Chicken at down-home prices on a walk-in, no-reservations basis. The establishment also retails the 'Cookin' with Coop' cookbook through its own e-commerce site, allowing customers to recreate signature menu items at home.

Product overview

Coop's Place operates as a single-location bar and restaurant in New Orleans' French Quarter, paired with an e-commerce component selling the 'Cookin' with Coop' cookbook. The core offering is the physical restaurant experience with dine-in service, while the companion cookbook product allows customers to recreate signature dishes at home. The two offerings are related through the restaurant's brand identity and recipe heritage.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coop's Place Restaurant A New Orleans French Quarter bar and restaurant offering Cajun/Creole dishes including Seafood Gumbo, Rabbit & Sausage Jambalaya, and Cajun Fried Chicken at down-home prices. Located at 1109 Decatur St., open Tuesday-Sunday with no reservations accepted and a 21+ age restriction. Serves both tourists visiting the French Quarter and local residents.
• Cookin' with Coop Cookbook A cookbook featuring Coop's Place's most popular recipes including Seafood Gumbo, Rabbit & Sausage Jambalaya, Cajun Fried Chicken, and other signature dishes. Sold through the company's own e-commerce storefront for $17 per unit with USPS Priority Mail shipping. Targets home cooks and former restaurant customers seeking to recreate menu items at home.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Galatoire's: Historic upscale French Quarter Creole restaurant on Bourbon Street serving traditional New Orleans cuisine to a broader price point and clientele—larger, more established incumbent in the same Quarter dining category, operating at a higher price tier than Coop's Place.
• K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen: Pioneering French Quarter Cajun/Creole restaurant founded by Chef Paul Prudhomme, offering a more refined and higher-priced interpretation of the same Cajun/Creole cuisine Coop's Place serves—an established incumbent competitor for French Quarter Cajun diners.

Direct peers

• Café du Monde: Decatur Street French Quarter institution since 1862 serving beignets and coffee in a high-volume, walk-in, no-reservations counter-service model—an iconic comparable of a long-established, single-location NOLA brand reliant on foot traffic and word-of-mouth.
• The Original Pierre Maspero's: Historic French Quarter restaurant on Chartres Street serving Cajun/Creole and seafood in a casual sit-down format, targeting the same tourist and local customer base with comparable menu and price positioning to Coop's Place.
• Mother's Restaurant: Long-standing New Orleans casual dining institution (founded 1938) serving po'boys, jambalaya, gumbo, and red beans and rice to a mix of locals and tourists at affordable prices—directly comparable casual Cajun/Creole heritage concept with similar customer demographics to Coop's Place.
• Willie Mae's Scotch House: Beloved New Orleans casual restaurant famous for its fried chicken and traditional Creole sides, drawing both locals and tourists with a single iconic signature dish—comparable heritage brand with walk-in service and strong word-of-mouth-driven demand similar to Coop's Place.
• Felix's Restaurant and Oyster Bar: French Quarter casual seafood and oyster bar with a long operating history, serving gumbo, po'boys, and Cajun/Creole plates in a walk-in, no-reservations model that competes directly for the same tourist and local casual-dining demand on Decatur and Iberville.
• ACME Oyster House: Iconic French Quarter casual seafood restaurant on Iberville St., serving oysters, gumbo, jambalaya, and other Cajun/Creole staples in a high-volume, no-reservations walk-in format nearly identical to Coop's Place's operating model and target customer.
• Molly's at the Market: Decatur Street French Quarter bar and restaurant literally adjacent to Coop's Place, serving casual Creole fare, burgers, and bar drinks to a mixed tourist/local crowd with a similarly irreverent, neighborhood-style identity—closest geographic and conceptual peer.

Others

• Coop's Place's neighbor: Coop's Place sibling concepts (none): Coop's Place has no disclosed sibling brands or affiliated restaurants.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/coopsplacenola
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coops-place

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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