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Pret A Mangar introduces new system 'so Club members can't share perks'

Club Pret members will have to log into the chain’s app from March 18 to access benefits

Evening Standard

Last two dedicated 'Veggie Pret' sites in London to convert back to standard stores

End of the concept comes eight years after it started as one month trial in Soho in 2016

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: It's not death I fear, it's the torture on the way – so this act of kindness cheered me

This week I felt a bit sorry for myself. As a rule I hate being pitiful, it’s pathetic because it never makes the situation any better, but this week I couldn’t help it.

Evening Standard

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Pret is the worst – but the lunchtime juggernaut is too big to stop now

The British public is falling out of love with Pret A Manger, writes Roisin Lanigan. Once an adored bastion of lunch-hour culture, the chain is suffocating under the weight of extortionately priced egg mayo sarnies and overpriced lattes. Depressingly, though, even ‘hyper-pretflation’ won’t stop us eating there

The Independent UK

Christmas menus 2023: Festive food from Pret to Wahaca

Prepare to prep your tastebuds for your Christmas Day dinner with this list of festive fast-food favourites

Evening Standard

It is time. Pret A Manger gets ready to sell their famous festive Christmas sandwich

The sandwich is back for 2023 but is being kept in safes in secret locations

Evening Standard

From $3 an hour at 16 years old to a $5 million CEO at 45, Pret boss is a taxi driver's son who says hard work and putting your head down create good luck

Pano Christou worked his way up the corporate ladder, landing the top job after two decades and 10 promotions at the company.

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Review: A table for one at Sweetings restaurant

Few places have stood the test of time the way this 134-year-old City seafood stalwart has. Joanna Taylor takes a seat

Evening Standard

Sandwich price shocks but meal deal costs rise less than average food inflation

Pret a Manger’s ‘posh’ cheese and pickle sandwich grabbed headlines for its £7.15 price tag, but it’s not all gloom

The Guardian - UK

‘A moment of dependable zen on a helter-skelter day’: Grace Dent on the joy of chain restaurants

They may never dazzle, but your favourite fast food chain never really burns its bridges

The Guardian - UK

Most expensive cheese sandwiches on the high street revealed

Pret has faced backlash after a sandwich, snack and drink were spotted at an unprecedented £13.60

The Independent UK

Pret A Manger hit with backlash over £7.15 cheese sandwich as one customer brands it ‘Britain’s worst-value baguette’

The eat-in price tag on the Posh Cheddar and Pickle product at High Street Kensington station has been slammed as a ‘rip-off’ by customers

Evening Standard

Why have Pret prices risen so fast?

The price of a McDonald’s Big Mac is up 64% since 2020, while at Subway, an Italian BMT is up 61% and a fish finger wrap is up 51% at Leon

Evening Standard

It can only get Pretter? Café offers free lunch to unhappy Pret subscribers

The growing Vietnamese-inspired brand has launched a temporary ‘disloyalty programme’

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Gazza ‘couldn’t resist’ kissing Prince of Wales during Pret visit

The former England footballer said William was a ‘great guy’ and ‘good-looking’

The Independent UK

Gazza ‘couldn’t resist’ kissing Prince of Wales during Pret homelessness visit

The former England footballer said William was a ‘great guy’ and ‘good-looking’.

The Independent UK

Prince of Wales kissed by Gazza during visit to Pret for homelessness campaign

The prince’s visit to the south coast follows the launch of his anti-homelessness programme in June.

The Guardian - UK

Paul Gascoigne kisses Prince William in Pret a Manger encounter

Ex-footballer among people in Bournemouth restaurant when royal dropped in to highlight his homelessness campaign

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Evening Standard

Prince of Wales kissed by Gazza in chance meeting at Bournemouth Pret-a-Manger

William visited the branch in Bournemouth town centre on Thursday to discuss its plans to expand a programme to support homeless people into jobs

The Independent UK

Prince of Wales kissed by Gazza during visit to Pret - old

William visited the branch in Bournemouth town centre on Thursday to discuss its plans to expand a programme to support homeless people into jobs.

The Conversation

What happens to your body when you get left in the cold

Pret a Manger, a sandwich and coffee chain, was handed an £800,000 fine recently after one of its employees became stuck in a walk-in freezer. The employee was trapped in the -18℃ freezer for two and a half hours before being found. Reports suggest the employee displayed symptoms of hypothermia…

Evening Standard

Pret ramps up prices as gross profits climb 83%

The price of an egg mayo sandwich is up 72% since 2020, compared to CPI inflation of 20% over the same period

Fortune

Pret A Manger employee tried to use croissant boxes to fend off hypothermia after becoming trapped in a walk-in freezer

The British sandwich chain has been fined over $1 million.

The Week

Crash frees millions of bees

Police in Canada warned drivers near Toronto to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. The crates containing beehives came loose from a truck and spilled onto Guelph Line, in Burlington, Ontario. Speaking to the BBC, beekeeper Michael Barber said…

The Guardian - UK

Pret a Manger fined £800,000 after employee trapped in freezer

Employee, who was stuck in walk-in freezer for more than two hours, was treated in hospital for hypothermia

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