Why are so many Indian restaurants named Gaylord?

This one's for the man who asked the question...

So many Gaylord's indian restaurants: * * * * * * * *. And they all start with one restaurant in New Delhi. The original Gaylord was opened by Iqbal Ghai and Peshori Lal Lamba in New Delhi in 1946; they then expanded Gaylord franchises to other Indian cities (Bombay), and then in 1957 to London, then Hong Kong, Japan (Kobe), and across the USA (Chicago, NY, SF, LA, Vegas). There's a potted history on the SF Gaylord's website. I couldn't find a website for Gaylord Delhi, but I did find one for the company that owns it (Kwality Group), possibly proving that follow the money also works for restaurants. Somehow comfortingly, the restaurant is still run by a Mr (Mangat) Lamba, and Kwality still has ambitions to expand further abroad. And the name? The name of the restaurant chain comes from the names of the original restaurant's founders. Some Gaylords (e.g. Kauai) are named after people. The proliferation of other Gaylords probably comes from the Gaylord's reputation as an original, quality and well-known Indian restaurant at the time when other restaurants were being created in the UK.

Well, that's the restaurant name sewn up, but not only restaurants are called Gaylord. There's the city, named after an apparently likeable Mr Gaylord. There's a pair of gymnastics moves named after another Mr Gaylord (front giant or back giant then 1.5 salto; basically spin round a bar then do a somersault and grab the bar again, which sounds terrifying), and there's a slang term for a pallet-sized cardboard box, named after a company named after a city, named after another Mr Gaylord.

This set of Mr Gaylords got me thinking that maybe the restaurant name too was triggered by someone's surname. Gaylord is an anglicised version of the Hugenot surname Gaillard (which fittingly means lively, high-spirited). The 1890s distribution of UK Gaylords show them clustered around the ports (London, Liverpool, Bristol) which supports this; I used to live in a former Hugenot area in London, and they took a while to move out from there.

And Mr Gaylord has yet one more surprise for us: according to one site writing about the restaurant, it's the British name given to Lord Krishna. Although I haven't found any independent confirmation of that yet, so it should be treated as most unconfirmed Internet information; maybe true, maybe legend, maybe someone being a little amusing with the truth. Enough; there are bigger questions out there (possibly involving yet more vegetables). And I won't even mention the 1970s Indian cigarette slogan of "Go gay with Gaylord". Oh no. Or that Claude Shannon was born in one of the Gaylord cities (I fear I may be wandering very far from his information limits by adding that to this post). And what do young Indians prefer on a night out? Why Italian and Thai, of course.