Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick’s newest startup is known as CloudKitchens. But a better name might be WeWork for Food.

Operating through a small startup he bought last year, and supported by hundreds of millions of dollars in loan facilities arranged with Goldman Sachs and other banks, Kalanick in the past 18 months has snapped up or leased properties in cities around the U.S. and in London, Singapore, South Korea and several other countries. He is turning the properties—mostly cheap buildings often in crummy or industrial neighborhoods—into kitchens he can rent out to restaurants that want the space to make food for delivery. And he has hired hundreds of employees, including engineers from Tesla and SpaceX, as part of a plan to design and manufacture the kitchens.