Spread & Co

What Spread & Co does

Spread & Co is an Austin, Texas-based specialty cheese shop, café, and wine bar operator founded in 2016 and doing business as "NEW SPREAD." The company runs two physical retail locations—the Cherrywood café and wine bar at 2406 Manor Rd and the Laguna Gloria café situated on The Contemporary Austin's museum grounds at 3509 W 35th Street—offering artisan cheeses, charcuterie, coffee, breakfast, lunch, and a wine bar experience to walk-in customers in the Austin metro. Beyond the storefronts, Spread & Co operates a multi-format commercial model that includes a monthly Cheese & Bread Club subscription delivered through Table22, a full-service catering arm offering grazing boards, mobile cheese cart rentals, grazing table installations, pairing parties, custom picnic setups, and bulk corporate gifting, plus physical and digital gift cards. Its customer base is primarily individual local consumers, supplemented by corporate catering clients and Cheese Club subscribers, with no named anchor accounts or enterprise contracts disclosed. The business is independently owned and bootstrapped, with 1–10 employees, no external institutional funding, and no proprietary technology. Operations run on standard third-party SaaS—a Squarespace website for marketing, Toasttab for point-of-sale and online ordering across pickup, delivery, in-store, and gift card transactions, and Table22 for subscription management. Pricing for catering is quote-based and opaque, while retail and subscription pricing is not publicly tiered; marketing relies on Instagram, an email newsletter, and community-driven word-of-mouth through monthly pickup parties.

Name

Spread & Co

Legal name

Spread & Co

Website

https://spreadandco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Spread & Co is an Austin-based specialty cheese shop, café, and wine bar operating two retail locations and a monthly cheese subscription club, with full-service catering and gift card retail serving individual local consumers and corporate clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Cheese Shop & Café

NAICS

Specialty Food Retailers (4452), Caterers (722320), Food Services and Drinking Places (722)

SIC

Retail-Grocery Stores (5411), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Cheese Shops & Fromageries (CRAHAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialty Wine-Adjacent Food Stores (Cheese/Gourmet Pairings) (CRAHAGAK), Mobile Specialty Food Vendors (e.g., BBQ, Tacos, Seafood, Ethnic) (THAFAHAH)

Keywords

• Specialty cheese retail
• Café and wine bar
• Event catering services
• Cheese subscription box
• Charcuterie and provisions

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Retail In-Store Sales: On-premise sales of cheese, charcuterie, specialty groceries, coffee, breakfast, and lunch at two Austin café locations with wine bar service.
2. Catering Services: Event catering including grazing boards, grazing table installs, mobile cheese cart rental, corporate bulk orders, custom picnic setups, and pairing parties for team-building or private events.
3. Cheese Club Subscription: Monthly subscription delivering artisan cheeses, fresh bread, and provisions to members' doors. Includes monthly pickup parties at Cherrywood location with free wine pours.
4. Gift Cards: Physical gift cards available at both locations and e-gift cards for retail, catering, and all in-store purchases.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Spread & Co operates a specialty cheese shop combined with a café and wine bar across two Austin, Texas locations, selling artisan cheeses, charcuterie, coffee, breakfast, and lunch. The business extends into event catering (grazing boards, mobile cheese cart, grazing tables, pairing parties, custom picnics) and a monthly Cheese & Bread Club subscription delivering artisan cheese, bread, and provisions to members with hosted pickup parties.

Product overview

Spread & Co is a hospitality business comprising two retail café and wine bar locations in Austin, Texas (Cherrywood and Laguna Gloria), offering specialty cheese, charcuterie, coffee, breakfast, and lunch items. The company operates a subscription-based Cheese & Bread Club delivering provisions monthly, and provides comprehensive catering services including grazing boards, corporate orders, mobile cheese cart rentals, grazing table installations, pairing parties, and custom picnic setups at Laguna Gloria. The business also retails gift cards and specialty grocery items.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cherrywood Café & Wine Bar

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ToasttabcoreTechnology or IntegrationOnline ordering and point-of-sale platform partner enabling pickup and delivery orders for both Cherrywood and Laguna Gloria locations, plus gift card sales.
• Table22coreTechnology or IntegrationSubscription commerce platform powering the Cheese Club monthly delivery service, handling membership signups and recurring billing.
• The Contemporary AustincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVenue partnership at Laguna Gloria grounds for café operations and custom picnic setups. Members receive 10% discount at Spread & Co, and Spread & Co customers get free venue admission on Thursdays with happy hour all day.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Zingerman's: Ann Arbor specialty food business with deli, bakery, coffee, mail-order, and multiple food venues — comparable multi-format specialty food + café + retail + mail-order model with strong brand identity.
• Formaggio Kitchen: Specialty cheese and gourmet food shop in Boston/Cambridge with cheese counter, prepared foods, and wine — closely mirrors Spread & Co's specialty cheese retail + prepared charcuterie + wine pairing model.
• Beecher's Handmade Cheese: Seattle/flagship cheese maker with retail counter, café, and made-on-site cheese viewing — closely comparable as a cheese shop with on-premise café and viewing experience.
• Murray's Cheese: Iconic NYC cheese shop with café, cheese counter, classes, and nationwide wholesale — directly comparable as a cheese shop + food service + education hybrid. Comparable to Spread & Co in curated specialty cheese retail and on-site café experience.
• Cowgirl Creamery: Artisan cheese producer with retail shops in California featuring cheese tasting counters — comparable specialty cheese retail experience with curated artisan positioning.
• Saxelby Cheesemongers: NYC cheese shop focused exclusively on American artisan cheese with cheese counter and educational offerings — comparable to Spread & Co's curated artisan cheese retail focus with strong local sourcing narrative.
• Cheese Board Collective: Berkeley worker-owned cheese shop and pizzeria — comparable specialty cheese shop + café hybrid with strong community identity and curated artisan focus.

Emerging players

• Goldbelly: National e-commerce marketplace for artisan food purveyors including cheese boards, grazing boxes, and catering products — comparable on the catering/mail-order grazing board vertical with national distribution and scale Spread & Co cannot match.

Broad incumbents

• Whole Foods Market: National grocery chain with substantial specialty cheese counters, prepared charcuterie, wine bars, and catering — broad incumbent setting competitive price reference for Spread & Co's cheese retail and prepared food offerings.
• Eataly: Italian marketplace with cheese counter, cafés, wine bar, retail, and on-site dining — broader incumbent offering the same multi-format cheese + café + wine + retail experience at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/spreadlovenkindness
• Facebookfacebook.com/hellospreadco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spread-co

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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