[cryo32]

What people don't realise is the startups here in the UK run on miserable sandwiches, tasteless crisps and energy drinks. Middle management lives on slightly more expensive platters from Pret.

[esskay]

Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere theres zero reason to be subjecting yourself to a supermarket meal deal, we've got an overabundance of independent food places in towns in the uk.

[nasretdinov]

Local food markets offer much better options than Pret to be fair

[cjrp]

True, but it avoids any unknowns when the office manager is organising a senior leadership lunch meeting. "Nobody ever got fired for buying Pret".

[IshKebab]

A great Pret baguette is like £5. Food from a food market is £10 or more these days. They massively increased in price after covid.

[maccard]

Everything massively increased in price. Also you won’t get anything for less than a fiver jn pret. A regular baguette is 6.25 and add a coffee it’s now £10

[zeristor]

Fortnum and Mason were cheaper than food markets for quite a while.

[cryo32]

It varies. They have cranked the prices up in the last couple of years.