Chelsea Clock: seafood restaurants

Thursday, 4 October 2012

seafood restaurants

Seafood Restaurants

Phillips Foods, Inc. and Seafood Restaurants is a family owned and operated seafood company in the mid-Atlantic region, United States. Phillips Foods, Inc., seafood manufacturers as well as restaurateurs, specializes in Atlantic blue crab meat and crab cakes, and produces a line of value-added fish and shrimp products. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the company is making an effort to expand its global presence with regional headquarters and a new seafood processing facility in Thailand. Phillips Seafood Restaurants have casual dining, buffet service and carryout.The company started in 1916 when Augustus E. Phillips established the company's first seafood processing plant on Hooper's Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. The A.E. Phillips packing plant processed seafood from many of the watermen in the region. Then, in 1956 after a surplus season of crabs, son Brice Phillips and wife Shirley opened the first “crab shack” in Ocean City, Maryland. The company's growth is guided by their maritime heritage and respect for nature. Brice and Shirley began building a new dining room each year at Phillips Crab House until it finally seated 1400 people.