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.
