Pret A Manger
Pret A Manger is an international chain of coffee and freshly prepared food shops, serving sandwiches, wraps, salads, grain bowls, bakery items, and coffee and tea in locations across the UK, US, France, Hong Kong, UAE, Singapore, Germany, and other countries. It also operates a food donation charity, The Pret Foundation.www.pret.com
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Oct 30, 2026
Zora BenhamouHOST
Do you ever wonder what really goes on behind the scenes at what seems to be a healthy
Zora BenhamouHOST
chain like Pret? And what do you do when you're traveling and all you got is a Starbucks while you're just trying to stay healthy? Then this episode is for you because today we are meeting with holistic nutritionist and food scientist, Narit Raish.
Zora BenhamouHOST
She's worked to formulate the menus at some of the biggest fast food chains that we know, and she exposes it all.
Zora BenhamouHOST
This isn't about fear mongering.
Zora BenhamouHOST
We met in London about a year ago, and I was really fascinated by your job.
Zora BenhamouHOST
You're a food scientist.
Zora BenhamouHOST
You were working for Pret-a-Manger and all these other big chains, and I'd never met anybody.
Zora BenhamouHOST
I'd never met a food scientist before, but of course I had a lot of questions.
Freddy QuinneHOST
Need someone to wipe their arse for them because they can't do it themselves.
Freddy QuinneHOST
The ones that are like, oh, do you know what? I just always like having a ham sandwich from Pret.
Freddy QuinneHOST
I'm like, fuck off, grow up.
TomPANELIST
You eat the same thing all the time? Yeah, I do, and I'm not autistic.
Ina GartenHOST
Yes.
Ina GartenHOST
And then you would decide, right? Pretty much.
Chloe MalleGUEST
And then we have, we live in my mother's old apartment on Central Park South, which is a beautiful, has a beautiful big room.
Chloe MalleGUEST
And so I like to do a sort of, I call it dinatoire, like have a buffet and then just let people sort of make their plates.
Sam NapierGUEST
But there was a time when we couldn't serve a barbacoa without somebody going, where's the dipping broth or whatever, you know? And at that time, again, that's not really the case anymore.
Sam NapierGUEST
Fucking Pret is serving birria now.
Sam NapierGUEST
But at that time, every other taqueria in London was serving quesadillas.
Sam NapierGUEST
And it's gotten to the point where halal smash burger places are having like generic queso birria kits or whatever to sell and it really did feel like this overwhelming pressure to do birria and it was only through stubbornness to not and so
Georgie MitchellHOST
ruin you.
Georgie MitchellHOST
Remember, Pret nearly got taken down, didn't it? Yeah, of course.
Georgie MitchellHOST
That was...
NickGUEST
We tell our team all the time because, you know, that poor girl, you know, was with her dad when that happened on a plane.
Dean BurnettGUEST
In England, it is anecdotally remarked that the number of Greggs Breakeries to be found in town is a reliable measure of the area's northerness.
Dean BurnettGUEST
Conversely, a commercial competitor to Greggs, Pret or Montreux, is reported to be more popular in southern areas of England.
Dean BurnettGUEST
Using a support vector machine and artificial neural network regression model, the relative geographical distributions of Greggs and Pret have been utilised for the first time to quantify the north-south divide in England.
Dean BurnettGUEST
What
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
Today I am delighted to be joined by the Chief Executive of Pret-a-Manger.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
Pano Christou has an amazing story.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
He's been at Pret for 25 years.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
He started out as an assistant store manager and has worked his way right through to become the Chief Executive at just the age of 41.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
So it's a fascinating story talking about one of Britain's most loved high street chains.
Pano ChristouGUEST
partners, Octopus Energy.
Jimmy McLoughlinHOST
Pano, welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
SteveHOST
I think Slingshot, whilst it's not given a solution, and that's, again, Tim mentioned that, it's highlighting things that people don't know about.
SteveHOST
So it's saying about the Frankenchickens, and there's a massive campaign as well against Pret at the moment.
SteveHOST
And if you're listening and still supporting Pret, I would highly recommend you boycott Pret
LorraineHOST
and Wagamama was another one
SteveHOST
and Wagamama Pret's a big one at the moment lots of franken chickens are turning up outside Pret establishments um we always used to get our coffee there yeah
LorraineHOST
not anymore
SteveHOST
but we don't
AdamHOST
I can't send one again today.
AdamHOST
Love a Pret.
AdamHOST
Love a Pret.
CallumHOST
Great, great cuisine.
CallumHOST
Comment below if you love a Pret.
CallumHOST
Yeah.
CallumHOST
What's your go-to road trip stop? Mine used to be McDonald's, but since I'm now at the point where most people consider they need to make a change in their life after losing Sixth Stone...
CallumHOST
I've changed my habits a little bit.
Ed BedingtonHOST
about
Claire WarnerGUEST
you? Fast food chains like Leon, Pret, are already taking advantage of this opportunity, right? In Pret, you can get one half of a sandwich, half a sandwich.
Claire WarnerGUEST
And so I think it's just an opportunity for publicans to think about how they can structure a menu differently.
Claire WarnerGUEST
I wouldn't advertise GLP-1 menus, but it definitely could be a lighter menu.
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