A Baltimore staple, Phillips Food & Seafood Restaurants, is closing
their manufacturing and distribution facility, cutting 100 jobs.
The
popular restaurant chain will close the Baltimore-based manufacturing
and distribution facility, but say they will maintain the Fort Avenue
location as the world headquarters with sales, marketing and R&D
staff.
Caroline Tippett, Vice President of Marketing, says that
closure will not impact the restaurants and the crab deck at the Power
Plant location is still slated to open this summer.
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6 comments:
I wonder where they will get their products from as the plant supplirs their restaurants and kiosk's at various airports. Phillip's is heavyly involved in the import of the blue swimmer crab native to Asia. Give me good ole' Maryland crabmeat and not that other crap. The price difference is tremendous as labor cost in Asia is about .25 cents a day.
I hate their asian crab meat. The really sad part is that they charge a premium for a subpar product that costs them pennies per dollar vs. what it costs to source the product domestically. The brand is diminishing in value and this is a sign of the decline.
faux seafood. reputation lost...
Yeah that Asia crab meat tastes horrible. Too many people know the difference now and will not buy it.
The owners are to blame. I used to work at Phillips' in OC, saw first hand the junk they passed off to tourists. Sysco everything, and continually downgraded the quality of the crabs they brought in. The owners only concern is the bottom line, not the product. You couldn't pay me to eat at any Phillips' location. Crap in, crap out.
Obama is celebrating this closing by another White House Rap party.
So do tell me...Why did you vote for this knuckle-head?
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