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“I was also helping my father in our brick manufacturing business. “They tried my suggestions, some of which became successful while some did not work,” says Ankush. Some of his friends were in the food business and they owned restaurants. We were globally the first to try such unique ways of serving food.”Īfter college, he launched a lifestyle magazine called Glimpse and a PR company called Medusa IMC, which he operated for about two years. I still use the format in my restaurants. “Once I tried serving French fries in a glass jar at a friends’ party in New York and it became an instant hit with people. The street and the food scene there inspired me a lot,” says Ankush explaining his passion for food and its presentation. The city has a global collection of food. “When I was studying in Boston, I used to visit New York on weekends.

It was during his stay in the US that he was exposed to American street food and he developed a fondness for it.Īn interior view of an Uncle Jack's outlet He completed his graduation in electrical engineering from Chitkara Engineering College in Chandigarh in 2013 and later did a diploma course in Marketing and Business Management from Harvard Summer School in Boston. But he always had a lot of interest in co-curricular activities. Though they were not the founders of the enterprise, they maintained the family’s legacy of strong business ethics all along.”Īt school, Ankush was an average ‘street-smart’ student scoring around 60-80% marks. “My father’s generation carried the business forward. My grandfather and great-grandfather did all the risk-taking. “Though my family was into business, I did not notice the on-the-edge, risk-taking entrepreneurial fire in them during my growing up years. The maternal side of my family had one of the oldest bookselling outlets called The English Book Shop in Sector 17, Chandigarh,” explains Ankush while talking about his background. “My father had a brick manufacturing business at Dera Bassi in Punjab which he inherited from his forefathers. The turnover touched Rs 7 crore in 2017, Rs 12 crore in 2019 and Rs 14 crore in 2022.Īll the outlets are company owned and the brand does not offer franchises.Īnkur learned to make various American dishes at the kiosk he acquired in 2015Īnkush hails from a quintessential middle-class business family in Chandigarh and finished his schooling from the city’s St Anne’s Convent School. “After Chandigarh and Mohali, we opened stores at Patiala, Ludhiana, Panchkula, Jalandhar and Delhi in the subsequent years,” says Ankush. The next year he opened his second outlet at Mohali. He started with five employees, and raked in revenue of Rs 3 crore in the first year. “The positive response at these places gave me the confidence to start my first store of Uncle Jack’s in June 2016.”Īnkush invested Rs 15 lakh in the first outlet that he established at a 200 sq ft space in High Street Café, a popular food court in Chandigarh. I set up my first food stall at a lifestyle event called La Feria in February 2016, and later in some college fests. “Burger Cafe gave me a lot of scope to learn the ropes of the trade first-hand. “I did a lot of research at Burger Café crafting varieties of dishes such as Sliders, Loaded Fries and Freak Shakes,” says Chandigarh-based Ankush, founder of Uncle Jack’s, a Rs 14 crore turnover eatery chain. Ankush is a lover of American food and trained himself in making the dishes.