For Joe Perriello, opening a mobile video game business is the perfect mesh of work and family.

In January, Perriello of Penn Township will launch Rolling Video Games PGH — a 25-foot trailer decked out with seven TVs and 10 gaming consoles that can be transported to children’s birthdays, graduation parties and community gatherings.

Perriello is joined by Murrysville resident Chad Reed and fellow Penn Township resident Ben Daykon in bringing new businesses to Westmoreland County.

Reed started designing custom picture frames for high school and college athletes in the summer, and Daykon operates a barber shop on Penn Township’s Route 130 that opened in July.

Rolling Video Games PGH

Rolling Video Games PGH was partially inspired by Perriello’s experience chaperoning his sons — third and fifth grade students in the Penn-Trafford School District — at their friends’ birthday parties.

“I’m like a big kid,” said Perriello, 39. “When I go to these parties at Urban Air and stuff like that, they’re great, but a lot of times, you’re just standing around watching your kids. And I don’t drink, so when I have a birthday party for my kids, there’s no beer, no alcohol. The adults are really just standing around watching the kids.

“I feel like this is great for all ages,” he said of the trailer.

Courtesy of Joe Perriello Tara and Joe Perriello of Penn Township pose for a photo in front of their mobile gaming business, Rolling Video Games PGH, which is housed in a 25-foot trailer.  

Perriello worked with a company called Rolling Video Games to design the trailer, which houses about $50,000 worth of tech — including four Xbox Series X devices, four PlayStation 5 consoles, a Nintendo Switch, sound systems for each TV, LED lighting, limousine-style seating and heating and cooling.

Nearly 25 people can play in the trailer at one time, he said. Players can choose from at least 15 games, ranging from Nintendo games for children to Madden sports games for teenagers and adults.

Perriello also would like to work with alcohol and drug recovery groups, offering appropriate entertainment for the sober crowd.

He said he’ll cater to people within an hour radius of Penn Township.

Perriello said he hopes the business will give him time to again enjoy playing video games himself — a rarity as he balances running a vehicle detailing business, driving his children to their baseball games and coaching for a local youth baseball team.

“I’m not an avid, avid gamer or into any of that hardcore video game stuff, but I have kids that play video games enough that I sit down and play, and I played a lot growing up,” he said. “I hope this gives me an opportunity to play a little bit more.”

Home Team Collections

Kristina Serafini | TribLive Custom frames featuring high school athletes are displayed in a showroom at Home Team Collections in Murrysville.  

Chad Reed started framing sports memorabilia signed by professional athletes in 2012 through his business, Game Day Collections.

But it wasn’t until last year that Reed realized parents want the same custom frames for their children’s sports jerseys, medals and photographs.

Reed, 44, of Murrysville opened Home Team Collections this summer to fulfill that interest.

Reed has received a handful of requests over the years from parents, asking that he design a frame for their child. But he never thought about creating a businesses dedicated to high school and college athletes until a mother from Tennessee requested a piece to commemorate her son’s experience competing in the Little League World Series.

“I love Little League baseball more than anything, so I thought, ‘I have to do this,’ ” he said. “So I did the piece. The family was head over heels over how cool the piece was, and then other teammates, coaches from that team started reaching out, requesting me to do a piece.”

Reed’s Home Team Collections warehouse is nestled between Route 22 and the Westmoreland Heritage Trail in Murrysville. Its shelves are stocked with the logos and colors of every school in the WPIAL, and he has done some work with local colleges such as Saint Vincent and Slippery Rock.

Reed has framed items such as wrestling singlets, football jerseys, techsuits, championship medals, hockey pucks and sports photographs. But he is open to expanding the business to include students in marching band, theater and dance.

“I haven’t had anyone that I would say is even less than ecstatic when they see their own kid in a … piece, whether it be a framed jersey, a picture,” he said. “Feedback’s been unbelievable. That’s why we have a lot of faith in the snowball effect of this.”

Navigating his first year in the business, Reed is not hyperfocused on sales numbers.

“I know the market is there,” he said. “It’s just a matter of how we get there.”

Barber Ben’s

Courtesy of Ben Daykon Ben Daykon, owner of Barber Ben’s in Penn Township, gives Maverick Conley a haircut.  

Ben Daykon started cutting hair in 2018, but that was not always his career plan.

Daykon, 35, of Penn Township got a degree in nursing, working directly with patients for a few years before transitioning to an administrative role overseeing budget and staffing at a hospital.

“I wasn’t too fond of the work I was doing,” he said.

Looking for a way to get back to working with customers, Daykon decided to pursue an apprenticeship at EJ’s Barber Shop in Murrysville — following in his mother’s footsteps.

“My mom owned a salon for a few years when I was in high school,” Daykon said. “She just worked by herself. It was a one-chair salon in Export — just a small mom-and-pop place.”

After completing his apprenticeship, Daykon got a job at a barbershop in Manor. He decided to open his own store this year, opening doors in July along Penn Township’s Route 130.

A youth football coach for the Penn-Trafford Midget Athletic Association, Daykon’s days revolve around driving his 9- and 10-year-olds to practices and games.

“I just tried to put the barber shop in the middle of my life,” he said, noting the store is just minutes away from the township’s Municipal Park football field.

“I’m part of the community with my kids and in a coaching sense,” Daykon said, “and now I’m part of the community with my business as well.”

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