Analysis Of Pret A Manger

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Pret a Manger is a private fast food restaurant that provides costumers with a wide variety of organic food and delicious hot and cold drinks. The first Pret A Manger was opened in London, in 1986 by Jeffrey Hyman but sold by company liquidator David Rubin to college friends Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe. Pret’s mission is to create hand made, natural food, avoiding the obscure chemicals, additives and preservatives common to so much of the 'prepared' and 'fast' food on the market today. Pret has approximately 374 locations, such as New York, Boston, Japan, and of course their home land UK. Pret a Manger’s current situation is to expand one shop at a time and meet up to costumer’s expectations, being that there are

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