Having spent over 14 years in the banking industry and then rising to the rank of vice president at Credit Suisse, Sagar Malhotra, of Indian origin, desired to do something new.(Image Source: Pinterest)
Having spent over 14 years in the banking industry and then rising to the rank of vice president at Credit Suisse, Sagar Malhotra, of Indian origin, desired to do something new. Although he had a job that most would want, his heart craved the real chhole kulche he had grown up eating as a child in Delhi. He considered an innovative idea that is a vending machine that would serve the North Indian street food symbol with sanitation, quickness, and regularity.
In 2024, Sagar took a giant leap. Being a food lover, he quit his bank job and devoted himself to creating India's first-ever chhole kulche vending machine. The journey was not easy. Without any technical training, he had to learn electronics, motors, and food-grade engineering from scratch.
By November 2024, after months of trial and error and experimentation, he developed a prototype that took just 60 seconds to serve a fresh plate of chhole kulche. The customers even had the option of spice levels not so spicy, medium, or hot so it would be individualized but the same, along with freshly boiled chickpeas, onions, chutney, and toasted kulchas, a flavor of Delhi street.
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That’s how ‘Chakh De Chole’ was born. With its first outlets launched in Delhi’s Vikaspuri and Rajouri Garden in December 2024, the venture quickly went viral. Customers were amazed to discover that the delicious food they were eating actually came from a vending machine, which is very impossible.
Social media soon buzzed with videos and reviews, announcing Sagar as an innovator who had blended tradition with technology. Not only did his business solve the issue of hygiene and time, but it also gave street food lovers an easy way of enjoying their favorite food at their convenience.
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Chakh De Chole's story is as much a family saga as one of entrepreneurship. Sagar credits his mother and a group of five who stood by him through sleepless nights and testing and preparing. With the revenue already crossing ₹10 lakh and expansion plans in Bengaluru and Jaipur in the pipeline, the journey has just started.
