Egg & Spinach Pot

Protein Pot from Pret - what a great way to get £1.50 for a hard boiled egg and some spinach leaves.

Coconut Cubes

Cubes of coconut at Pret.

Hail the Kale

 Pret has kale in sandwiches.

Coconut Water

Coconut water is going mainstream with Pret and of course you read about it on this blog months back  http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/coconuts-cucumbers-coobo.html

Salad Days

• Hoisin Duck No Bread £3.75 and 144 calories
• Sesame Chicken & Noodle Salad £4.85 and 329 calories
• Smoked Salmon & Sweet Pickle Salad £4.50 and 481 calories
• Greens & Grains No Bread £3.75 and 293 calories 

Diets are Sad

Pret's great seasonal visual and message

Frittata & Gustoso

Butternut Squash & Feta Frittata at Pret

Olive & Parmesan and Sauteed Leek & Wild Thyme 'Gustoso' savoury muffins at Harrods

Ham, Leeks & Peas Frittata by Searcys at National Portrait Gallery Cafe

Curious Juices

Guanabana from Juna fruits - watermelon size, pineapple-like texture with an unique aroma!

Pret's more conventional Apple, Gooseberry & Raspberry

Perk Up Your PM

Pret's luxury cookies.

Hot Multidecks

Pret are rolling out more and more self-service hot units where soup, wraps, porridge, bacon rolls are immediately available, don't slow the service and rival the eye appeal of the sandwiches.

Skinny Dip

Skinny Dipping at Pret - all 190 calories and doesn't it sound better than "pea & mint humous with Crudites"

Fruitbox Ilusion

If you cannot display boxes of fruit, vegetables and salad - do what Pret does and create the illusion and window decals

Rice Cakes

Another clever transfer from Julian Metcalfe's Itsu operation to mainstream Pret - chocolate covered rice cakes.  Will they follow popcorn and go nationwide?
See our post about rice burgers http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rice-burgers.html

Impressive Staff

Pret set a standard

Levy Restaurants are going to make a difference to Compass

Perhaps the suggested 16%, 18% or 20% gratuity (in New York) would help?!

Jamie's Chic Shack

Bicester Village - the chic outlet shopping venue for hordes of overseas visitors - has an interesting mix of catering.  The largest Pret I have ever seen plus Carluccios, Villandry Grand Cafe, Busaba Eathai and this shed by Jamie Oliver's outside catering company Fabulous Feasts.  Quite what the visitors think of chelsea buns and eccles cakes, goodness knows but they were of good quality.

Snacking

Apostrophe

Benugo

Pret

"Healthy" snacks = Growing sales

Fighting the Cold

Pret's Hot Winter Menu - soup, wraps and toasties

Soup at Caffe Nero with toasted ciabatta bread - another clever use of that panini grill

Peyton & Byrne's Soup & Lamb Sausage Roll for a fiver offer

That Lived-In Look

And I always thought those brick walls were real!





Corporate Pret are certainly aware of the change in cafe feel/fashion/interior design

The 'new' lived in leather look

Sex, Drugs & Bacon Rolls

Sign at The Breakfast Club - "Home of the Bacon Butty" although it wasn't a patch on Popham Little Chef's Heston special with five rashers of  Denhay Wiltshire cure bacon - two back and three streaky - in quality bloomer bread.  That was magnificent.

Pret's new British Bacon Buttie sold from the heated wrap/porridge unit

High Speed Panini

Great panini presentation at Chessington Garden Centre's new Sedum cafe restaurant and they are using Electrolux's High Speed Grill as seen at Pret.  The kit is not cheap but allows you to serve a panini/toastie within 60 seconds.

























For details see http://tools.professional.electrolux.com/Mirror/Doc/MAD/ELECTROLUX/English/PA0001.pdf