GAY LORD RESTAURANT BOMBAY(MUMBAI),
(Gay lord never a homosexual hangout}
1980's=When Americans changed the meaning of GAY
-from Happy to Homosexual
BE HAPPY BE GAY ;BUT NEVER A GAY HOMO
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It all began with ice cream. The British had a settlement in whats now Palika Bazaar and Iqbal Singh Ghai and Purshottam Lal Lamba started making hand churned Ice Cream, sold at the Regal building in Delhi. This was in Circa 1939 . In 1942 an American dropped in and tipped them to keep their business open after the late night show at Regal. This changed their fortune and friendship grew into family and Lamba married Ghai's sister and then what, they got into the restaurant business and started Gaylord. The "G" from Ghai and "L" from Lord. Thank goodness they did not call it Lordgay. But, those were innocent times and gay in the 40's in Delhi was an unknown word (in the current context). Though some historians feel Lord Krishna was termed as Gaylord in the indian context in an innocent way gay meaning happy.
PL Lamba started the Kwality resturant (misspelt as a marketing gimmick that Absolut vodka would follow 4o years later). I think Lamba meant Quality in the Punjabi way. Then came the partition of India and Pakistan and lots of family came and settled in various parts of India, there was a Kwality every where started in Bombay, Calcutta and at my last count there was or had been a Kwality in Mumbai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Amritsar, Chennai, Nagpur, Chennai, Chandigarh, Patiala,Jamshedpur,Kanpur, Pune, Dehradun, Nagpur, Baroda,Goa, Agra, Mysore, Lucknow, Udaipur, Dalhousie , Vizag and some others I could not trace. All had some family linkage, brother, uncle cousin, son in law, old employee and so on. To the extent my friend and senior blogger Sandip Ghose tells me (he was in HUL, then HLL) that they had to buy the Kwality brand many times over as there was so many other claimants after the deal was done.
Kwality had a simple model make and sell Ice cream (a dream with cream) , and open restaurants wit
h family for families to dine in.When Sunil Lamba came to handle the helm of affairs, his big ticket was at the Asiad Village in 1982. He opened a series of restaurants in the complex, Angeethi (frontier cuisine), Ankur (Indian Cuisine), Chopsticks (chinese cuisine), Tonic the bar amd another American fastfood restaurant, the name I forget. Which has been taken up further by his son Dhruv Lamba starting , Kwality express and Chopsticks express in Malls and Hospitals and Breads and More all over. Kwality also caters at the Delhi Gymkhana Club.
SONIA GANDHI EATING KWALITY ICE 'D'REAM
(Gay lord never a homosexual hangout}
1980's=When Americans changed the meaning of GAY
-from Happy to Homosexual
BE HAPPY BE GAY ;BUT NEVER A GAY HOMO
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Kwality and Gaylord:The First Family of Restaurateurs
samilm.blogspot.com/2008/.../kwality-and-gaylordthe-first-family-of.ht...Dec 15, 2008 - Though some historians feel Lord Krishna was termed as Gaylord in ... there was a Gaylord Indian Restaurant in Delhi, Bombay, London, Japan, Chicago New York. ... The story of Jay and Veeru progressed (Lamba and Ghai) ...
Kwality and Gaylord:The First Family of Restaurateurs
samilm.blogspot.com/2008/.../kwality-and-gaylordthe-first-family-of.ht...Dec 15, 2008 - Though some historians feel Lord Krishna was termed as Gaylord in ... there was a Gaylord Indian Restaurant in Delhi, Bombay, London, Japan, Chicago New York. ... The story of Jay and Veeru progressed (Lamba and Ghai) ...
Kwality and Gaylord:The First Family of Restaurateurs (Restaurant wallahs)
It all began with ice cream. The British had a settlement in whats now Palika Bazaar and Iqbal Singh Ghai and Purshottam Lal Lamba started making hand churned Ice Cream, sold at the Regal building in Delhi. This was in Circa 1939 . In 1942 an American dropped in and tipped them to keep their business open after the late night show at Regal. This changed their fortune and friendship grew into family and Lamba married Ghai's sister and then what, they got into the restaurant business and started Gaylord. The "G" from Ghai and "L" from Lord. Thank goodness they did not call it Lordgay. But, those were innocent times and gay in the 40's in Delhi was an unknown word (in the current context). Though some historians feel Lord Krishna was termed as Gaylord in the indian context in an innocent way gay meaning happy.
PL Lamba started the Kwality resturant (misspelt as a marketing gimmick that Absolut vodka would follow 4o years later). I think Lamba meant Quality in the Punjabi way. Then came the partition of India and Pakistan and lots of family came and settled in various parts of India, there was a Kwality every where started in Bombay, Calcutta and at my last count there was or had been a Kwality in Mumbai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Amritsar, Chennai, Nagpur, Chennai, Chandigarh, Patiala,Jamshedpur,Kanpur, Pune, Dehradun, Nagpur, Baroda,Goa, Agra, Mysore, Lucknow, Udaipur, Dalhousie , Vizag and some others I could not trace. All had some family linkage, brother, uncle cousin, son in law, old employee and so on. To the extent my friend and senior blogger Sandip Ghose tells me (he was in HUL, then HLL) that they had to buy the Kwality brand many times over as there was so many other claimants after the deal was done.Kwality and Gaylord:The First Family of Restaurateurs
samilm.blogspot.com/2008/.../kwality-and-gaylordthe-first-family-of.ht...Dec 15, 2008 - Though some historians feel Lord Krishna was termed as Gaylord in ... there was a Gaylord Indian Restaurant in Delhi, Bombay, London, Japan, Chicago New York. ... The story of Jay and Veeru progressed (Lamba and Ghai) ...
Kwality had a simple model make and sell Ice cream (a dream with cream) , and open restaurants wit
h family for families to dine in.When Sunil Lamba came to handle the helm of affairs, his big ticket was at the Asiad Village in 1982. He opened a series of restaurants in the complex, Angeethi (frontier cuisine), Ankur (Indian Cuisine), Chopsticks (chinese cuisine), Tonic the bar amd another American fastfood restaurant, the name I forget. Which has been taken up further by his son Dhruv Lamba starting , Kwality express and Chopsticks express in Malls and Hospitals and Breads and More all over. Kwality also caters at the Delhi Gymkhana Club.SONIA GANDHI EATING KWALITY ICE 'D'REAM
