The Bombay Bicycle Club is a restaurant chain that has multiple restaurants in many locations across the United States. [1] It originated as an Indian restaurant chain.[ citation needed ] Some locations of the restaurant chain also have bars. [2]
The Bombay Bicycle Club is the inspiration for the investment club known as the Billionaire Boys Club , whose founder, Joe Hunt, liked to hang out at the restaurant in Chicago in his youth. [2] The Bombay Bicycle Club also inspired the English indie rock band of the same name.
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In-N-Out Burger is an American regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations primarily in California and to a lesser extent the Southwest from Oregon to Texas. It was founded in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948 by Harry (1913–1976) and Esther Snyder (1920–2006). The chain is headquartered in Irvine, California and has expanded outside Southern California into the rest of California, as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, and Idaho, and is planning expansions into New Mexico and Tennessee. The current owner is Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders' only grandchild.
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The Borås Arena is a football stadium in Borås, Sweden. It is the home ground of IF Elfsborg and Norrby IF and was opened in 2005. Borås Arena has an artificial turf pitch, GreenFields MX by GreenFields, and has a capacity of 16,200. Both clubs presently using the stadium previously had Ryavallen as their home ground. Until recently it was the only stadium in Allsvenskan built in the last 40 years. The arena is located in Knalleland and is very close to the newly built athletics hall Ryahallen.
Kalbadevi is an old neighbourhood in Mumbai (Bombay), India. It is named after Goddess Kalbadevi, the Hindu Goddess. Kalbadevi area is one of the busiest areas during peak hours. The area has mostly traders in watches, bicycles, steel utensils, etc.
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The Billionaire Boys Club, or BBC, was an investing and social club organized by Joseph Henry Hunt in Southern California between 1983 and 1989. It was originally simply named "BBC", the initials of Bombay Bicycle Club, a restaurant Hunt had frequented as a young man in Chicago. The "get rich quick" schemes the group offered to clients added up to what was essentially one big Ponzi scheme.
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