From its foundation in 2019 as a desperate means of keeping a family financially stable to shipping slow cooker and flat top meal kits across the entire country, the company has seen some big changes in a short period of time.

But few changes have been bigger than what was debuted to the public Thursday evening — Beehive Meals’ new 60,000-square-foot headquarters in Ogden.

During the ribbon-cutting ceremony and public open house Thursday, Beehive Meals founder and CEO Allyse Jackson recounted how the business came about in 2019 when her husband Adam seemed on the cusp of losing his job.

“I was a stay-at-home mom at the time,” she said. “Adam was working for a small business here in Utah that, unfortunately, wasn’t in the best financial situation, and it was clear that he was going to lose his job fairly soon. Adam went to work one morning, I got up before my kids woke up and I was thinking, ‘OK, we have bills we have to pay. We have a mortgage. We just need to put food on the table for our family.’ So I pulled my phone out and I pulled the Notes app up and I titled the note, ‘Things I’m Good At That Could Make Money.'”

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With a limited education history, she said that list included items like baking, crocheting and freezer meals.

“I’ve always prepped freezer meals for my family,” she said. “When I was looking through my list, I was like, ‘Freezer meals. I could grocery shop, I could prep the food and I could deliver it to people.’ I went to Adobe Stock Photography because I didn’t have any content. I put a picture collage together from stock photos and I posted it on a yard sale Facebook group in Farmington where we lived. It was immediate that it took off.”

From stock photos and Jackson preparing meals in her own kitchen, Beehive Meals would experience rapid growth over the ensuing years. By January, the company had 120 employees and had just been authorized to start delivering to all 50 states.

The 60,000-square-foot facility contains the entirety of Beehive Meals’ operation, including a large procurement warehouse, prep kitchen, freezer, shipping warehouse, marketing, logistics and even a “content kitchen” where promotional materials can be created.

The facility is also somewhat of a return to form for the area and its history of helping feed the nation. Beehive Meals’ new building is located on land that was once part of the Ogden Union Stockyards. Behind the building are several preserved ramps that cattle once used to climb aboard rail cars bound for points across the country.

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During the ribbon cutting, Ogden City Council member Shaun Myers also spoke, welcoming Beehive Meals into the Ogden community.

“We’re elated to have you here,” he said. “We’re glad that you’re part of this local economy. We hope that you feel comfortable and grateful here and, most importantly, we hope that you’re successful. Our commitment to you is that our community will support you because we like to support those who are also from our community.”

Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Chuck Leonhardt said that Beehive Meals has all of the ingredients of a thriving company.

“You’ve got a great vision,” he said. “It started out from your heart helping other people. You have a growth model and you have unlimited potential in so many different markets from your core. And you have a strong, strong following.”

Ogden City Economic Development Director Eric Gibson told the Standard-Examiner the city is excited to see additional manufacturing jobs coming to Ogden as a result of Beehive Meals’ move.

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“A paramount part of Ogden’s lifeblood and its economy is the manufacturing sector,” he said. “To see continued investment is an amazing thing for us.”

Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Jackson told the Standard-Examiner that the new facility — which has now been in operation for two weeks — has several benefits over the 25,000-square-foot facility Beehive Meals previously occupied in Layton.

“This facility will help us to five times our business where the facility itself allows us a lot of growth opportunities,” she said. “We’ve invested pretty heavily into some semiautomatic equipment to remove some of our manual processes which will help not be so labor intensive for our team.”

She said that Beehive Meals has also purchased some of the land adjacent to the new facility for potential growth in the future.

Jackson said that Thursday was a great celebration of all those who have helped Beehive Meals come so far since 2019.

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“It’s really exciting to have all of the different people here that have helped us get to where we’re at,” she said. “We have a lot of friends and family, we have people that we work with like affiliates and influencers, we have a lot of our team members and their families here. It’s just a fun opportunity to be able to showcase our building and celebrate with the people that helped us.”

She added, for the moment, the company’s focus is on making the product even better.

“We currently serve nationwide, so really what’s next is just continuing to innovate on our products,” she said. “We started here in Utah so we have a really good customer base here, but this facility will allow us to continue to expand out of the state and continue to become a household name across the nation.”

Beehive Meals' Ogden headquarters, pictured during its open house on Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Members of the public line up to tour Beehive Meals' new Ogden headquarters on Thursday, May 14, 2026.