Nipping out for a lunchtime sandwich, drink and a packet of crisps is a tradition almost as old as the office itself. Not getting much change back from a tenner, though, is a new experience.
Nonetheless, it is one that customers of Pret a Manger are having to get used to after the chain raised its prices on some items by up to five times more than the increase in the average takeaway sandwich price over the past year.
The cost of an egg and mayonnaise sandwich at Pret has risen 72 per cent to £3.25 since August 2020 while a can of Coke Zero has jumped by 54 per cent to £1.70, according to prices supplied by the company. Pret’s most popular sandwich, its
