Chirag Chhajer is the co-founder of Burma Burma, India's only Pan India specialty Burmese restaurant and tea house. Established in 2014, Burma Burma is currently present in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata with twelve company owned restaurants and delivery kitchens, a growing online retail business and a robust Pan-India expansion plan.
Chirag Chhajer's interest in business management emerged as he was deeply influenced by his father, a successful businessman dealing with textile trading. After his schooling in Utpal Sanghvi Global School and Narsee Monjee Junior College of Commerce and Economics, Chirag went on to earn a degree in International Business (2008) from Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. In 2010, he completed his Diploma of Education, Family Managed Business Program from S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai. It was here that he learned the fundamentals of running different businesses and bringing business management to family owned and run establishments. On completing his formal education, he joined his family-run business - Chhajer Synthetics Private Limited, a textile trading company. Starting as a trainee and moving up to becoming a director over a decade, Chirag felt there was no better alternative to learning and sharpening his business acumen than being hands on.
In 2013, he was approached by childhood friend Ankit Gupta with the idea of opening a specialty Burmese cuisine restaurant in India. Chirag was keen to explore the business opportunity in the food and beverage sector driven largely by his deep love for different global cuisines and the narratives that come with it. In 2014, after considerable consumer research and several trials through pop ups, Chirag and Ankit formalised their partnership.
In 2018, Chirag was featured on the Forbes India 30 under 30 list and was also invited to speak at the TEDx Youth Summit at Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai in the same year.
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