Meet the founders

Cooked by a chef.
Certified by a nutrition team.

Healthy food kept getting handed to the wrong people. We fixed that at WorkBites: recipes start in a kitchen, and get audited by nutritionists — not the other way around.

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Chef · Founder
Chef-founder

Arjun Malhotra

Ex — Fine dining, Mumbai · Michelin-trained

Arjun spent twelve years in restaurant kitchens learning how to make vegetables the best thing on a plate. He started WorkBites after watching friends in offices force down bland "diet" tiffins every afternoon — and then reach for a samosa at 4 PM anyway.

His rule for every recipe: it goes to the nutrition team after it tastes right, not before. If it fails nutrition targets, the recipe is rebuilt — never the flavour reduced.

"I don't compromise on ingredients, and I don't compromise on taste. If a box of vegetables tastes boring, that's a cooking problem — not a healthy-food problem." — Arjun Malhotra, Chef-founder
The nutrition team

Every recipe passes through certified nutritionists before it ever leaves the kitchen.

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Dr. Priya Iyer

Head of Nutrition · RD, MSc Clinical Nutrition

Twelve years advising athletes and corporate wellness programmes. Priya sets the calorie, fibre, protein and glycemic-load targets that every WorkBites box has to meet — per meal, per day.

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Sana Kapoor

Lead Dietitian · Certified, IDA

Sana runs the 1:1 consultations for every subscriber — sets your personal defaults (grain, protein, calorie band, allergens) and checks in monthly if you're on the Monthly plan.

Why we started WorkBites

Because the taboo — that healthy has to be boring — was always a cooking problem, not a nutrition one.

The category was stuck. Diet boxes were being designed on spreadsheets — calories in, macros out — and cooked by people whose job was compliance, not craft. So people ate them for a week, then quit.

We flipped the process. Chef technique comes first: char, roasting, real house-made sauces used as finishing flavour-and-moisture — never as a substitute for skill. Then the nutrition team certifies every recipe against your daily intake targets.

The result: lunches you actually finish. Fibre first, protein next, a millet grain instead of rice or roti, and a light sauce spooned through so nothing eats dry.

Individual subscribers today. Once enough people in a workplace are on WorkBites, we approach HR directly — because at that point, we've already proven ourselves one desk at a time.