Pret a Manger has unveiled a new range of 'premium' lunch offerings targeted at hybrid workers looking to treat themselves on office days - including a salmon salad that starts from £12.95.
Salad! Even in this heatwave, that doesn't really meet my definition of 'treating myself'!
The coffee shop chain, which has almost 500 stores across the UK, says its new range of salmon, chicken and butternut squash dishes have been concocted with its in-house nutritionist to meet growing demand for bigger, healthy lunches.
No demand here from me, vcertainly not for butternut squash, the most tasteless vegetable since avocado.
But the range of leafy greens and beans 'starts from' £9.95 - rising to £12.95 for the top-of-the-range miso salmon salad. And prices will be even higher depending on location, with airport and train station branches charging more and 20 per cent VAT slapped on if customers want to eat it in-store.
Anyone paying that for a salad they could whip up themselves for a third of the price before they head off to work must be mad.
7 comments:
Is Pret a "coffee shop chain" now? I thought it was a sandwich shop chain. Costa, Starbucks et all will need to look to their laurels.
Do they still teach home economics (aka cookery) in schools? I went to a boy's school so didn't learn cookery there. Instead I picked it up by watching mum. Prepared meals and takeaways dominate the food market. Now we have these deliveries of ingredients and recipe card for those who can't even shop. Pathetic!
It was so long ago that I don't remember how I learned to cook. I think following recipes probably played a significant part. It isn't really rocket surgery, especially not bloody salad.
The last time that I treated myself I bought myself a Swiss watch. Prior to that it was usually some piece of woodworking machinery.
Stonyground.
I do some pretty nifty ‘treats’ at home here … taste nice enough … one quarter the price.
Andy5759: No, they don't. After passing many years imparting a useful life skill it was decried by the usual suspects and went though a phase of being a useless basic introduction to food technology. Then someone noticed that food technology careers weren't exactly thick on the ground. After that the "experts" gave up and now we have generation after generation growing up thinking that pop and crisps makes a good lunch and main meals come from the freezer . . .
I refuse to use a sandwich shop which has a mission statement
Rocket surgery. Salad. I see what you did there.
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