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Police officer says stealing £2.25 baguette was due to a lack of sleep

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The Independent UK

Shoplifting Met Police officer who stole £2 tuna baguette from Pret branch dismissed

PC David Fyfe carried out ‘reprehensible’ conduct while in uniform, a panel found

Evening Standard

Hang on, £15 salads – when did eating lunch at your desk become so expensive?

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Pret, Farmer J and atis are selling £15 salad bowls to hybrid workers who want to eat well at lunch. But are these mega salads genuinely healthy, or just bigger, pricier versions of a meal deal? Hannah Twiggs examines how lunch lost its limits

The Independent UK

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London’s healthiest lunches: A nutritionist ranks the high street options

What to eat (and what to avoid) if you’ve had enough of the 4pm slump

Evening Standard

‘We wrote it living on Tesco sandwiches and anxiety attacks!’ How Operation Mincemeat conquered the world

It started out as a fringe musical about an outlandish war plan – and became a West End and Broadway smash. As the show hits China, Australia and Mexico, its ‘nerd’ creators explain how they went global with a box of hats and a dream

The Guardian - UK

‘The smell of truffle is genuinely glamorous’: the best Christmas sandwiches in 2025

Sandwich messiah Max Halley sorts the merry from the meh in our taste test of supermarket and high-street festive butties

The Guardian - UK

Christmas sandwiches have become unhinged – so why does Britain keep buying them?

COMMENT: They’re overpriced, structurally unsound and weirder by the year, yet we buy them anyway. Hannah Twiggs investigates the runaway Christmas-sandwich economy, the cold-roast physics behind them and why your pick reveals more about you than it should

The Independent UK

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The Standard's Big Misteak podcast launches

David Ellis and Josh Barrie launch The Standard's latest podcast

Evening Standard

Pret fans furious over missing Christmas menu item

Some customers were livid at the decision

Evening Standard

Eight of the best club sandwiches in London, from £5.99 to £40

The club sandwich, more than 100 years old, is a timeless creation

Evening Standard

Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Bar Flor: Basque and it shall be given you...

This bar below Wildflowers is a beautiful thing

Evening Standard

London's 10 best old-school Italian restaurants

From Il Portico to Trevi, here’s where to go for your spaghetti fix, according to Josh Barrie

Evening Standard

Teen who died after eating Pret baguette would be ‘proud’ of allergy law changes

Natasha died after eating sesame baked into a Pret A Manger baguette in 2016

The Independent UK

Girl who died after eating Pret baguette ‘would be proud of law change impact’

A change in the law now requires all food outlets to provide a full ingredients list and allergy labelling.

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Evening Standard

As Pret loses half a billion, can the lunch king fight back?

The stakes are high and the competition is fiercer than ever — but the sandwich chain is making big moves to bring back its salad days, writes Jonathan Prynn

The Guardian - UK

Overbaked prices? What a Greggs sausage roll and Pret meal deal say about how much Britons will pay

Food inflation pushes consumers to the limits of what they are willing to spend, costing retailers sales

Evening Standard

Pret A Manger meal deal launched – what can you get with it?

One of London’s favourite coffee chains is trialling a new meal deal

The Independent UK

Voices: It will take more than a £6 ‘meal deal’ to shake up Pret

COMMENT: It’s about time the embattled food chain offered a sandwich lunch plus drink and crisps for under a tenner – but office workers are still sore from all the years of eye-watering ‘Pretflation’. Will they bite, asks James Moore

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Evening Standard

Pret meal deal: trial sandwich offer at high street chain to start from £6

The high street chain is finally caving to competition from supermarkets

The Independent UK

Pret A Manger launches major change to all stores

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The Guardian - UK

Pret a Manger to take on supermarkets by trialling meal deals

Format to be tested in last quarter of year after chain’s value cut by a third amid ‘intense strains’ on hospitality industry

The Independent UK

Pret A Manger launches new initiative to rival the supermarket lunch

The sandwich and coffee chain has said it will test the format in the final three months of 2025

Evening Standard

Pret to test meal deals as chain focuses on value to drive demand

The sandwich and coffee chain has said it will trial the meal deal format in the final three months of this year.

The Independent UK

Are coffee subscriptions from chains like Pret or Leon worth it? Here’s our verdict

Coffee shop subscriptions aren’t the bargain they used to be, but can they still help you save?

The Guardian - UK

Is Pret’s mega salad actually mega expensive?

Letters: Shareen Campbell considers the restaurant’s costs and suggests that it is serving up good a good deal

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