Pret have just confirmed that they’re to purchase Eat and are planning to convert many of the 94 UK stores to Veggie Prets. As we know, Monzo partnered with Eat earlier this year to offer digital receipts through the Flux technology.
It will be interesting to see what happens what happens now with this partnership, whether it will be scrapped or rolled out to all Pret stores.
I went to the first one they did back in Old St, and then was expecting more to open up but it didn’t happen.
Speaking of Pret, I flew back from LA over the weekend and noticed that they are building a Pret in the international terminal at LAX Airport… The first stop for Pret in the US? (I’ve not seen any anywhere else)
Ah, they’re all on the East coast. That’ll be why I’ve not seen any.
I only hang out on the West Coast for the most part, plus Minneapolis in the mid-West. Did make a trip down South to Memphis on this trip, but I’ve not been to the East coast in at least a decade.
They have a huge big in Soho on Broadwick Street (I thought that was the first one - it was a time-limited pop up at first, but was so popular it stayed).
I’ve not been to the US since they expanded over there but see it in the background of shows set in New York a lot.
I used to work at a fancy PR agency and one of the people on my floor turned out to be the daughter of a founder. I made the mistake of wondering out loud if Pret & Eat were the same company because they had identical ranges, layouts and were often next door to each other in certain parts of London. She let me know that they most certainly weren’t, and they were very unwelcome copycats.
Surely they can sell meat products in one display case and veggie products in another side by side.
They already have veggie options so just expand these out.