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Like many restaurant owners, Sheila Blue showcases an impassioned commitment to serving. However, as the owner of Tomball’s Victory Pie Company, Blue’s salute to service extends far beyond the customers who visit her restaurant and bakery at 110 South Pine Street where she offers so much more than pie.
Victory Pie Company opened its doors in Tomball in September 2024. While “pie” is in its name and in its game, the restaurant serves breakfast and lunch all day – offering a variety of sandwiches, soups, pastries and baked goods in addition to frozen take-and-bake options.
“We’re so much more than pie,” Blue shared. “We’re that place where you can come and connect – connect with us or a friend. We’re not about turning tables; we’re about forming relationships with our guests and being part of this community.”
Many of those guests share a common bond: service to our nation. It’s a calling baked into Victory Pie Company’s mission and Blue’s purpose. “Being able to do something that I love and turn it into an opportunity to give back and do something for other people is more than I could ever ask for,” Blue explained.
Victory Pie Company donates a portion of all profits to charitable organizations focused on supporting veterans. Blue estimates thousands of dollars have been given to non-profit groups like The EOD Warrior Foundation, Camp Hope, the Snowball Express program and the Mighty Oaks Foundation. In addition to offering a discount to active-duty members of the military, veterans and first responders, Victory Pie Company also encourages customers to bring framed photos of their loved ones who have served for inclusion on the restaurant’s Wall of Honor.
Sheila’s husband, Nathaniel Blue, has been a first responder for more than 30 years and currently works as a paramedic for the Cy-Fair Fire Department. All three of their sons also serve. Elijah, their oldest child, is an Operations Specialist for the United States Coast Guard. Gabriel, their middle son, is a Texas State Trooper. Samuel, the youngest, is a Houston firefighter.
“What they see, what they’re exposed to every day – it’s such a sacrifice,” Blue said of first responders and those who defend our country. Her personal connections to those who serve are rooted even deeper.
Sheila’s only brother, Staff Sergeant Mark “Doc” Wells, paid the ultimate sacrifice in March of 2011 while serving in Afghanistan. Nine years his senior, Blue says she helped raise her younger brother like a second mom. After catching the baking bug when she first started experimenting in the kitchen as a 10-year-old, Blue passed her love for cooking down to her brother.
“We loved to cook – both of us,” she recalled of her baking bond with Mark. “Even when he was serving, first in Iraq then Afghanistan, he would cook with whatever he had available. Chicken pot pie was his absolute favorite thing. He would call me from the commissary – or wherever he was shopping – and ask for the recipe again and again.”
Shortly after her brother gave his life to our country, to honor him – Blue began baking and selling chicken pot pie at a local farmers market. Week after week she would sell out, eventually leading customers to ask for more – not just more chicken pot pie, more everything.
“People started asking for other flavors of pie, so I started using other family recipes,” she explained. “We kept growing and getting more requests, so I’d bake more and we kept selling out.”
To meet demand, Blue expanded from the farmers market to a commercial kitchen and eventually to a brick and mortar in a neighboring town before relocating to Tomball last year. “We love the small town feel of Tomball,” she revealed. “Being in Old Town Tomball, specifically around the shops, restaurants and other places, the foot traffic is great because people are already there shopping, browsing, antiquing and all that good stuff.”
It’s more than the “small town feel” that has Tomball feeling like home for Blue and her business. She says her relocation was refreshing due to the Tomball Economic Development Corporation’s (TEDC) support through its Business Improvement Grant (BIG) program.
“It wasn’t this long, drawn out process with a lot of red tape,” she disclosed. “They are excited about a new business coming to town and they’re here to encourage you and support you. It made me even more excited to get involved in this community and give back and help serve our heroes.”
Having now been established in Tomball for more than a year, Blue says it’s “fantastic” to be part of such a tight-knit community where she can support service members, veterans and first responders while fostering a connection with customers and their families. True to her mission, Victory Pie Company will continue to offer so much more than pie. However, the chicken pot pie, beloved by her brother, will forever be a fixture at Victory Pie Company. In fact, it’s the top-selling pie on the entire menu.