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 dealYour article says that it costs £8.14 per portion to prepare a version of a premium salad sold at Pret for £12.95 (Supersize me: recreating Pret’s £13 miso salmon super plate at home, 11 July). However, Pret’s charge includes 20% VAT. It also covers the cost of refrigeration, premises, the wages (and holidays and pension and national insurance contributions) of the staff who fill and clean the fridges, those who prepared and sold the salad, the accountants and human resources managers behind the scenes, the staff training and Pret’s work with homeless people to give them employment and a future. If Pret can do all that with the £4.81 left after making the salad, it should be running the country.Shareen CampbellSwindon• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section. Continue reading...

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