Sister act is at it again with a Cartewheels culinary subscription service

Siblings Emily Simpson and Stephanie Seefeldt are changing how Hill Country residents experience gourmet meals at home with their monthly subscription service from Cartewheels Catering and Carte and Co.

Their “supper club” subscription delivers family-sized entrées and specialty items directly to customers once per month, a concept that has rapidly expanded to Fredericksburg and San Antonio.

“It’s a monthly subscription. You sign up and it comes every month,” said Simpson in a recent interview on The Lead Live. “We have one pickup day a month, typically the second Thursday.”

Each monthly package includes five to six family-sized entrées plus a bonus specialty item. Subscribers can choose between two or four servings per entrée, with the smaller portion size exclusive to supper club members.

“It’s perfect for people who might be empty nesters whose kids are going to university,” Seefeldt said. “It’s hard to cook for just two people.”

The sisters combine their popular staples with exclusive seasonal creations only available through the subscription.

“You get some of our normal mainstays like our King Ranch chicken and our meatloaf, but then you also get exclusive items just for the supper club,” Simpson explained. “You get something new every single month that’s seasonal.”

Their meatloaf generates particular enthusiasm among local customers. On Tuesdays, when featured as the lunch special, it regularly sells out before noon, with loyal customers texting orders directly to Simpson’s phone.

“This isn’t your mama’s meatloaf,” Seefeldt insisted. “People are literally beating down the doors Tuesday for our meatloaf special.”

The sisters credit their successful expansion to their current team. “We have an entire team of rock stars right now,” Seefeldt said. “We all work in concert together and we just have a really good synergy right now.”

Despite growing demand, they maintain their boutique approach to catering, handling between 50 and 150 events annually while emphasizing quality over quantity.
“We’re very particular. We’re still a boutique catering company, so we want to make sure that we’re not scaling and losing the specialness,” said Seefeldt.

The family’s culinary roots run deep. Their mother, who previously owned the Cypress Grill from the late 1990s through about 2008, remains involved as their creative director, coming in three days weekly.

Customers interested in joining the supper club can sign up through email, social media, or by visiting their store and scanning a QR code. The cutoff for the following month’s delivery is typically around the 26th of the current month.