Since 1986, Pret has been creating handmade, natural food, avoiding the obscure chemicals, additives and preservatives common to so much of the prepared and fast food on the market today.

To make this possible we build a kitchen in (or very near) every shop. You won't find sell-by dates on our fresh sandwiches and salads. We don't sell factory stuff. Our ingredients are delivered early every day. We don't mind that fresh and fragile ingredients go off quickly, we start from scratch each morning. We do this because natural fresh food tastes better than processed food and it's good for you. If and when we make too much we offer it to local charities at the end of the day. We simply don't need to sell old food so we don't. We never have and we never will.