P.J. Whelihan’s Pub & Restaurant in Dauphin County is hiring for 80 positions as it prepares to open

P.J. Whelihan’s Restaurant & Pub in Susquehanna Township is back on track.

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The doors of the restaurant at 3882 Union Deposit Road are scheduled to open as early as the week of October 26. The company said it is filling 80 year-round positions for front and back of the house, including servers, hosts and line cooks.

Last year, the chain’s owner, P.J.W. Restaurant Group, announced it was bringing the restaurant to the former TGI Friday’s at Dauphin Plaza. It expected to open in early 2020 but the coronavirus pandemic pushed back the opening.

Jim Fris, the chain’s chief executive officer, said last year the chain is gradually moving west in Pennsylvania. It opened a restaurant in Chester County in 2010 and has added several more in the county followed by restaurants in Reading and Lancaster County, he said.

The restaurant group operates five different restaurant concepts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including The Pour House, Treno Pizza Bar and The ChopHouse.

P.J.’s claim to fame is supplier of wings for Wing Bowl, the former pre-Super Bowl wing-eating extravaganza that was held in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. But the restaurants do more than fry wings.

The menus are heavy on sports bar favorites – nachos, fries, tots, rings and burgers – along with crab cakes, grilled chicken breasts, racks of ribs and seared ahi tuna steaks. It’s also known for 1/2 price wings on Tuesdays and state-of-the-art entertainment package with 38 televisions.

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Whelihan’s is among a smattering of restaurants opening in central Pa. as they navigate health and safety requirements and ever-changing guidance from Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration. Restaurants in the state are mandated to operate at 50% indoor seating capacity and not seat patrons around bars. Alcohol sales are cut off at 11 p.m.

Those interested in applying for jobs at Whelihan’s are asked to visit the restaurant from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday.

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