About

A licensed kitchen, cooking for the whole neighborhood.

Delish Delivered has been on Milwaukee-area doorsteps since spring 2013. The food is prepared locally, in inspected kitchens, and delivered the day it is cooked.

Founder

Kathy Burghardt

Kathy was born and raised in Mequon, graduated from UW–Madison, and traveled before coming home. She spent 19 years at Burghardt Sporting Goods, then left to start a dinner service for the spot she was in herself: a busy mom, ordering takeout for her daughters more often than she wanted.

Why should someone from every household be out gathering ingredients, chopping, cooking, and cleaning up meals that may not even turn out well? A talented chef can make a lot of food and deliver it across the community. That is the idea behind Delish Delivered.

She built it for weeknights, and it is also a practical help for seniors and for stretches that make cooking hard: illness, injury, a death in the family, a move, a divorce, or a new baby. Gift certificates are part of the regular order flow.

At home she has her partner, Bill, and two daughters. Winters are for skiing. Summers are for biking, the Northwoods, and the festivals around Milwaukee.

Kathy Burghardt, founder of Delish Delivered

Executive chef

Andrew Spellman

Chef Andrew has led the Delish kitchen since February 2022. He came in to tighten recipes the kitchen was already running, so a generous plate can still land at the prices on the menu.

He trained with an associate degree in culinary arts from Waukesha County Technical Institute, after an apprenticeship at Carl’s Catering in Milwaukee. From there: banquet chef at the Grand Milwaukee Hotel, executive sous chef at Chenequa Country Club and the Wisconsin Club, a line at Steven Wades Cafe in New Berlin, and his own personal-chef and catering work. For fifteen years he was chef and kitchen manager at Shully’s Cuisine and Events in Thiensville, then catering coordinator at MATC.

See what he is cooking

Two kitchens, one menu

The original kitchen is at 6340 W. Industrial Drive in Mequon. A second kitchen in Elm Grove covers the west-side routes. Both are licensed, inspected, and insured. Cooks, drivers, and the office share the same job: the right meal, at the right door, still worth eating.

Offices, schools, gyms, and housing complexes can set up a group drop. Call the kitchen that covers your ZIP.

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