Prepared meal delivery has historically been a tricky business to scale. Meal kits pushed too much work onto the consumer, vertically integrated prepared-meal companies struggled with menu fatigue and overly-centralized production, while restaurant delivery offers unlimited variety at an unsustainable price. CookUnity has taken a different approach by building a vertically integrated marketplace that handles nearly everything around the food while leaving the actual cooking and menu creation to independent chefs. The company now serves 250k+ customers per week across most of the U.S., operates eight major kitchen facilities, and offers roughly 400-500 meals per market each week. More importantly, the same infrastructure is starting to power corporate fridges, catering, third-party delivery, physical retail, healthcare, and personalized nutrition. This week, HNGRY sat down with CookUnity COO Aalok Kapoor to understand how the company is turning chefs into scalable food brands while building an operating system capable of connecting nearly any food creator with nearly any form of demand.