Price rises at Pret have been the subject of much City chatter as workers have returned to their desks after the summer holidays. While it might once have been possible to grab a lunch of a sandwich, drink and snack for under a fiver, now it is increasingly hard to get much change from a tenner.
Such is the popularity of the sandwich firm with workers in the Square Mile — it has around 40 outlets, many just a few yards from each other — that since the outbreak of Covid, footfall at its stores has been used by the Office for National Statistics as a barometer for the rate at which staff have ditched working from home for a return to the City.
