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.[1] Phillips Seafood Restaurants have casual dining, buffet service and carryout.
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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.
Phillips Seafood Restaurant currently has 19 Phillips Seafood Restaurants, all located along the eastern coast of the United States.
Phillips is the world’s largest manufacturer of blue swimming crab meat, and employs over 10,000 people worldwide. The company's crab processing facilities are found all over the world, including the United States, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Thirteen plants are located worldwide. In 1990, Phillips opened crab processing facilities in Southeast Asia to ensure a dependable year-round supply of quality swimming crab meat for our own seafood restaurants. Phillips Foods has regional sales offices across the United States while global sales locations exist in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Australia. While most of the seafood production goes to the United States, the company has a growing market in Asia, Europe, and Australia [2]
Known for award winning crab cakes, the company has a vast array of other products - packaged and sold under Phillips Seafood brand label - including crab meat, appetizers, fish, seafood cakes, soups, entrées, and sauces. Phillips’ created the Asian Rhythms brand and product line offering Far Eastern appetizers, soups and entrées.
Phillips has been recognized by regional publications, industry journals, and local and national business associations. These recognitions include:
Pasteurized Blue Swimming Crab Meat, Premium Crab Delice and King Crab Shumai, Seafood Prix d’Elite finalists
“Best New Food & Beverage Concept” & “Best New Restaurant Design,” Phillips Franchising
Top 75 Multi-concept Operators, Phillips Seafood Restaurants ranked 52nd
“Best of 2007” Issue
Top 100 Grossing Restaurants in the Country Phillips Harborplace, #40-Sales $13.75 million
Brice and Shirley Phillips, Phillips Foods Inc. Lifetime Achievement Award “Stars of the Industry”
Voted Best Crab Cake, Catalog Critic Competition
Phillips has defined a Corporate Responsibility Initiative that focuses on Environmental Issues and Resource Management, Social Responsibility, and Economic Development.[3] Phillips works together with partners throughout the world to invest in the people and infrastructure of welcoming countries. The company established a Division of Aquaculture and Sustainability to make sure their purchasing decisions are good for the environment and are not jeopardizing future supplies.[4] Also, the company helped create the Indonesian Crab Producers Association which teaches fishermen sustainable methods. They are a founding member of National Fisheries Institute’s Economic Integrity Platform and started a Build-A-Boat program providing boats to local waterman after the 2004 tsunami in Asia.