Who is hungry jack

Eventually, after much legal wrangling, Cowin prevailed but he chose to keep the unique Australian name. US Mars bars were airy and fluffy and filled with almonds. And they were ultimately unpopular. Despite being made by a company called Mars Inc, the US Mars bar went to the sweetshop in the sky in the s.

This, in turn, was modelled on the US Milky Way bar invented by his father in This is made by Mars. We hope that clears things up for you. To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. Best of shopping Premium Membership. In the know quiz. Benedict Brook. His father, a Ford Canada executive, gave him the idea after returning from a posting Down Under, he revealed to the Vancouver Sun in At the time, the fast food industry was still in its fledging stages in Australia, and on spotting a queue of 50 people outside a Chinese takeaway in Sydney's Mosman, the now-billionaire saw the gap in the market, he told Fairfax Media three years after joining the board of directors in It came down to drive and single-mindedness, he said later.

Investors were convinced that if he would travel halfway round the world for this, there must be something in it. But now he had the secret recipe, Mr Cowin was dreaming of big things. There was just one problem. The company couldn't use the BK name because it was already trademarked. Mr Cowin chose Hungry Jack, a pancake-mix brand name owned by then-parent company Pillsbury, adding the apostrophe and the 's' to make it sound cosier.

Mr Cowin bought the franchise and opened his first store in Innaloo, a suburb of Perth, on the 18 April The entrepreneur's ensuing success has echoes of the tale of McDonald's franchisee Ray Kroc, a former milkshake salesman whose dizzying rise to riches 30 years earlier was chronicled in recent Weinstein Brothers twisted epic The Founder.

In , it entered Victoria by buying up and converting 11 struggling Wendy's restaurants. Mr Cowin was now a big fish, and Burger King was starting to get uncomfortable. By the time the nineties began, the cracks in the relationship had begun to show.