Sigratur Rahman Adiat
On most days, the crowd arrives before the oil fully heats up. By noon, the shingaras are crackling, tea is flowing, and the narrow space around “Jhotpot” begins to buzz with the kind of chaos every entrepreneur secretly dreams of: customers leaving not because the food is bad, but because there’s simply no room left to stand. For Sigratur Rahman Adiat (Junior, CS), that moment became his divine sign that his wild experiment might actually work.
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Before running a business, Adiat lived for coding, freelancing by grade 10, and developing a passion for Computer Science. Before “Jhotpot”, his first solo clothing venture taught him that hustle without balance simply is unsustainable. The cafe’s early months were tough. In the twists of the learning curve, Adiat mentioned he put all his effort into the business one month and still incurred losses. But when frustration kept him away the next month, profit doubled. This became his leadership breakthrough, which made him realize that he needed systems, delegation, and trust. Today, Jhotpot runs with several employees, organized preparation, hygiene checks, and supply management. What started as a shaky experiment has now scaled to three branches: Badda, Banasree, and EWU. The strong reception among BracU students helped make “Jhotpot” a recognizable name.
Adiat’s ambitions are anything but small: 10 to 12 branches this year, grow “Jhotpot” into an international brand, restarting the clothing business, building an IT firm, with his passion for cars still waiting in the wings. His advice to aspiring young entrepreneurs is refreshingly honest. “Losses are inevitable, a strong team is non-negotiable, reliable investors matter, and employees should be assigned according to skill.”
Sigratur Rahman Adiat is a young entrepreneur caught between the push and pull of code and commerce, grades and growth, burnout and belief. A CS student who built a café, lost sleep, lost grades, found systems, found scale, and still dreams of writing software in between. In a city full of successful cafés, it is not just the shingara or the crowd that defines him; it is his stubborn, slightly chaotic brilliance and the restless mind behind it.
