BOMBAY &lt;CURY> BASES GROWTH ON LOCATION, COSTS

  Bombay Palace Restaurants Inc, with its
  emphasis on location and low food costs, expects its 1987 sales
  to increase 150 pct to about 22 mln dlrs from about 8.5 mln
  dlrs in 1986, according to President Sant S. Chatwal.
       Chatwal told members of the Dallas financial community at
  a lunchtime briefing, "we go for prime locations everywhere and
  make sure our leases are very favorable."
       As previously announced, the company expects to report
  1986 earnings of about 700,000 dlrs, or 31 to 33 cts a share,
  on revenues of 8.5 mln dlrs. Chatwal said the final figures
  would be released in about two days.
  

