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Pret A Manger is a sandwich shop franchise. They're popularly referred to as Pret.

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Pret A Manger job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Good food, nice people

    Worst thing

    Day to day changes, cutting hours, no respect from head office

    7.3

    Pret A Manger General manager, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Free food and coffee

    Worst thing

    Disrespect from customers

    2.3

    Pret A Manger Barista, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Working with a variety of people

    Worst thing

    Customers are rude often and it’s not safe because the lack of security

    1.6

    Pret A Manger Team leader, December 2023

  • Best thing

    The people, the food, the brand

    Worst thing

    Reduced labour target

    8.4

    Pret A Manger General manager, November 2023

  • Best thing

    Tram- people

    Worst thing

    To many responsibilities, tusk, crazy targets, so many changes

    5.5

    Pret A Manger General manager, October 2023

  • Best thing

    I love my job and our team is amazing.

    9.9

    Pret A Manger Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    i love doing coffee and restocking they’re calming

    Worst thing

    certain people of management they’re rude and discriminatory making it an unpleasant experience and unprofessional situation

    5.5

    Pret A Manger Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Good pay

    Worst thing

    stressful peak times and no time for proper training, cleaning

    6.4

    Pret A Manger Team leader, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Get to meet people

    Worst thing

    Stress, loads of work no time

    1.5

    Pret A Manger General manager, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Free food, good staff.

    Worst thing

    Shifts can be quite draining

    6.8

    Pret A Manger Team member, August 2023

  • Best thing

    I like what I do!

    Worst thing

    Pressure when there's not enough people.

    9.0

    Pret A Manger Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Paid on time and always new friends

    Worst thing

    Pay cut on breaks
    Busy job but less payment

    2.8

    Pret A Manger Barista, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Fast pace, not boring, good pay

    Worst thing

    Stressful, takes up a lot of my time

    8.0

    Pret A Manger Assistant manager, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The enviroment

    Worst thing

    The fast paced times

    8.9

    Pret A Manger Team leader, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Weekly pay

    Worst thing

    Stress and to o much pressure

    3.0

    Pret A Manger Team leader, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Free food/ drink

    Worst thing

    Get treat like just another disposable employee, if your sick it’s tough and expect to be treat differently because of it.

    1.6

    Pret A Manger Kitchen staff, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Making coffee

    Worst thing

    Its to busy and im the only ome barista sometimes

    5.5

    Pret A Manger Barista, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Pay on time

    Worst thing

    No breaks pay anymore, no extra pay for overtime hours, weekend pays sre the same

    4.3

    Pret A Manger Kitchen team leader, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Very friendly colleagues and nice company to work for.

    Worst thing

    N/A

    9.4

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Free food during a breaks but the food is not all that

    Worst thing

    Management, lack of appreciation, 24/7 working no rest what so ever.

    2.4

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Pay

    Worst thing

    Often stay late cleaning, rude customers

    4.7

    Pret A Manger Team member, February 2023

  • Best thing

    lovely customers
    some great team members

    Worst thing

    some staff have a sick up their ass when given power.
    always stressed
    over worked for the pay

    6.0

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Really good hours to work around child care and school hours

    Worst thing

    If you staay longer to help, i longer break gets taken off on the system even though you havnt taken it

    8.4

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2023

  • Worst thing

    Long hours and shifts, staff shortages, blinded head office and a CEO taking millions in bonuses and salary increases while not doing anything

    3.4

    Pret A Manger Assistant manager, January 2023

  • Best thing

    The team
    Head office paid nights out
    Good pay + weekly bonus

    Worst thing

    Unpaid breaks
    Early start
    Sometimes stressful

    8.4

    Pret A Manger Employee, December 2022

  • Best thing

    The food

    Worst thing

    Bully’s
    Treat staff awfully
    Have no awareness about staff mental health

    1.2

    Pret A Manger Barista, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Free coffee and good payment compared with another company’s

    Worst thing

    A lot of stress

    3.4

    Pret A Manger Team leader, October 2022

  • Best thing

    I don’t deal with customers too much

    Worst thing

    Stressful, not consideration about the team, preferences about some of the colleagues giving them some preferences, hard work, tiring, bad paying…

    2.4

    Pret A Manger Barista, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The people I work with
    The hours suit my life
    Free or discounted food

    Worst thing

    Can be stressful at times. The people running the business don’t have a clue what’s going on in the shops in terms of how hard people are working. All they care about are the figures and not about the welfare of the staff or providing them with support. Personally in my shop I feel one extra staff member would change the whole environment of the shop to a more pleasant experience for staff and customers.

    8.4

    Pret A Manger Team leader, September 2022

  • Worst thing

    Abusive costumers
    Disrespectful environment within staf1 person is doing 3 people’s job while the other doesn’t do anythin

    3.2

    Pret A Manger Barista, August 2022

  • Best thing

    If you like to clean, then this job is for you. Work is pretty easy like making coffee which is fast.
    Weekly pay is great!

    Worst thing

    Carrying a heavy load of things like milk packs, boxes of cups and lids, juices, coffee beans etc.
    You constantly need to be on your feet.
    It’s never not busy, there is always a customer under 3-7 mins of quiet.
    Your fingers could ache if you keep cleaning and could face a burn because of hot water or steamer

    8.9

    Pret A Manger Barista, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Mystery shopper bonus
    2 free items on shift
    Free work shoes

    Worst thing

    Unrealistic expectations
    Unpaid breaks
    Stress

    6.0

    Pret A Manger Barista, August 2022

  • Best thing

    The people you work with
    The weekly pay

    Worst thing

    The management

    4.9

    Pret A Manger Team member, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Chance to make a customers day , meeting loads of people

    Worst thing

    The team

    1.5

    Pret A Manger Team leader, June 2022

  • Best thing

    Free Food

    Worst thing

    Dealing with Karens

    8.2

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    Baf coffee machine

    8.7

    Pret A Manger Assistant manager, February 2022

  • Best thing

    Good pay
    Free food
    Breaks are taken really seriously
    Standards are high so no room for a big disaster

    Worst thing

    So much training
    Too much expectation
    Too many shifts
    Overworked to the max
    Unable to meet my university deadlines

    2.6

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2022

  • Worst thing

    Barely got any training but got shouted at for doing things wrong, never got shifts, team acted as if it was my fault i couldn’t work certain hours because i had classes

    1.7

    Pret A Manger Team member, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The other staff members

    Worst thing

    Coustmers are very abusive and feel entitled to disrespect staff
    Managers are unprofessional
    Fights between staff
    Extreme levels of stealing
    No proper training
    Unsafe equipment
    No compensation
    No actions took over serious incidents
    Can't get important days off
    Sometimes you end up doing 3 people's jobs at once
    Depressing atmosphere
    Unbearable levels of customers due to subscription

    1.4

    Pret A Manger Barista, February 2022

  • Best thing

    It's flexible

    Worst thing

    Dealing with bad customer

    8.8

    Pret A Manger Chef, January 2022

  • Best thing

    Colleagues
    Free food
    Discount when not working

    Worst thing

    Lack of support from management
    Management is rather corrupt
    Stress

    3.9

    Pret A Manger Barista, December 2021

  • Best thing

    Customers

    Worst thing

    Sometimes people are rude
    Not very organised

    6.8

    Pret A Manger Barista, December 2021

  • Best thing

    People I work with and weekly pay

    Worst thing

    Under staffed and high expectations that are hard to meet

    3.7

    Pret A Manger Employee, December 2021

  • Best thing

    Working with people of different backgrounds and cultures

    Worst thing

    Stressful

    4.9

    Pret A Manger Assistant manager, December 2021

  • Best thing

    Great company, every team I have worked with are like family to me, great perks and pay, great chance to progress

    Worst thing

    At times unrealistic expectations, stressful when busy with time, sales and customer targets,

    8.6

    Pret A Manger Team leader, November 2021

  • Best thing

    Some team members

    Worst thing

    The customers, the office where all belongings are

    1.7

    Pret A Manger Team member, November 2021

  • Best thing

    Flexible hours, easy to book time off

    Worst thing

    Stress level, no support from management

    6.0

    Pret A Manger Barista, September 2021

  • Best thing

    Free food, fair pay.

    Worst thing

    High stress, rude customers, long hours, bosses expect too much.

    2.8

    Pret A Manger Employee, August 2021

  • Best thing

    Fellow colleagues

    Worst thing

    People in wrong positions

    2.4

    Pret A Manger Crew member, August 2021

  • Best thing

    It is not complicated in terms of duties

    Worst thing

    Load of work and not well paid

    2.4

    Pret A Manger Team leader, July 2021