Clive Schlee

  • Pret offers free water refills

    Pret offers free water refills

    Pret A Manger customers will be able to fill up their own water bottles for free after the business introduced filtered water stations in selected outlets. Starting this week, all three Veggie Pret shops will feature the stations with the… Read More

  • Analysis: Business leads the way on veggie alternatives

    Analysis: Business leads the way on veggie alternatives

    With a DEFRA report on cutting meat consumption mouldering in the archives, there’s no point waiting for the government to set the agenda. By Nick Hughes. In July 2013, at the height of holiday season, DEFRA quietly published a report… Read More

  • Pret’s veggie might

    Pret’s veggie might

    Pret A Manger’s pop up veggie store is like a Beyonce concert, according to chief executive Clive Schlee. “A meat free environment seems to generate an infectious positive energy,” he wrote on his blog this week. The shop is only… Read More

  • Pret launches veggie poll

    HIGH STREET chain Pret A Manger is asking customers how to improve its vegetarian offer. Thus far, 50% would like see a veggie fridge in every outlet, whilst 45% would like to see a purely veggie Pret store.    … Read More

  • Thousands more jobs in hospitality

    THE HOSPITALITY sector looks set to generate thousands more jobs as Pret A Manger and Whitbread both publish ambitious expansion plans.   Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Costa, announced an increase in like for like sales of 3.7% and… Read More