Ever since he was a child, Barath Jaiyanth from Chennai felt fascinated by ice cream trucks depicted in the cartoons and shows. He loved their bright colours and how children would come spilling onto the streets every time they heard the jingle of a truck pulling up. He dreamt that if he ever started his own business, it would entail selling ice cream.
Barath, now 32, realised his dream through his startup, The Tickle Truck. It sells unique popsicles and nitrogen ice creams in a dozen flavours, including sugarcane, jamun, boondi buttermilk, strawberry, gajar halwa and mojito. The food truck has become popular and people visit from all corners of the city to try out the dessert.
Interestingly, Barath is a graduate in visual communication and does not have any background in dessert making. He is an actor, who has featured in around 30 films and television serials. “What I was doing was entirely different, but the thought of having an ice cream business never went away. One day in…