Type Privately held company Founder Bob Platzer | Founded 1983 Number of locations 18 | |
Headquarters Haddonfield, New Jersey, Haddonfield, United States | ||
P.J.W. Restaurant Group is a group of 19 restaurants in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Founder Bob Platzer heads the organization.
Bob Platzer and his wife opened Platz's in 1983 in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. When Platzer opened his second restaurant in Allentown in 1993, he changed the name to P. J. Whelihan's to honor his grandfather, Peter Joseph Whelihan. The group has three additional concepts that include The Pour House, which focuses on craft beer and "pub grub"; The ChopHouse, an American steak and seafood house; and Treno Pizza Bar, which features wood- and brick-fired pizzas and housemade pastas.
The company has ten restaurants in Eastern Pennsylvania, and eight in Southern New Jersey. It also operates a food truck, and there are two P.J. Whelihan's at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia and one at the Liacouras Center (also in Philadelphia), both of which are operated by Aramark, along with a P.J. Whelihan's booth at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
P.J. Whelihan’s provides 10,000 chicken wings for Philadelphia’s annual wing-eating contest at Wells Fargo Center every winter on the Friday before the Super Bowl.
The group supports The Ronald McDonald House, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation for teens battling cancer and local athletic teams, food shelters, clubs and schools in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. Bob Platzer was named a South Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by the Philadelphia Business Journal.