|
Jun 2016
11:28am, 23 Jun 2016
24,191 posts
|
McGoohan
Though Pret are a bit Dickensian in their treatment of staff.
|
|
Jun 2016
11:29am, 23 Jun 2016
20,089 posts
|
GlennR
I'd be surprised if they're any worse than the independents.
|
|
Jun 2016
11:31am, 23 Jun 2016
82,832 posts
|
GregP
I did - but Itsu always strikes me as a bit insipid. Have you got a Pod near you?
|
|
Jun 2016
11:38am, 23 Jun 2016
14,287 posts
|
The Teaboy
I really, really fancy some chicken now after doing those polls.
|
|
Jun 2016
11:45am, 23 Jun 2016
24,192 posts
|
McGoohan
They are worse. I blogged about them a year and a day ago. Here's what I said:
"I go in coffee shops a lot – I frequently have a cup and diddle about on my laptop before going into work. I am recognised by the staff of two separate chains. They act, usually, like they’re my best mate. One of them employs an attractive blonde girl from some far off land who you might think, is so drawn to overweight, balding, bespectacled customers that if circumstances were different, would be bearing your future children. Then the next, bald, overweight, specky bloke comes in and she’s equally into him. And yes, they employ good-looking young men too as if easiness on the eye is the prime factor in employability.
This is as nothing compared to Pret A manger.
There was a brief discussion on the Mundane thread recently about the apparent cheeriness of coffee shop staff. Fleecy posted a link to an article about the Pret A Manger chain which was a bit of an eye opener. Not sure which one it is but here are a couple of links.
Link (roll over me to see where I go)
Link (roll over me to see where I go)
The headline is that in a weird fast food variation on the Big Brother Is Watching You thing, Pret staff spy on each other to enforce company values. They can shop each other or buoy each other up – this directly affects their pay packets. Each week, each branch is visited by a mystery shopper who scores the staff and the restaurant on a number of key points. If they pass, they all get an extra £1 an hour for the week. If just one person is found to be surly or not fulfilling the company values, no-one gets the bonus. That person can be named and shamed.
If they are marked down two weeks in a row, a blood sacrifice is required and any found wanting are likely to be sacrificed to the gods of good fortune in a giant wicker man.
And in this way, the lizard-gods from another dimension who surely run this chain extract one more piece of humanity from the planet. Their plan is almost complete. David Icke is looking in the wrong places. He thinks world leaders (and Kris Kristofferson and Boxcar Willie for some reason, but then he is an utter lunatic) are the invaders eating away at our society. Lizard invaders are cleverer than that. They get us to do it ourselves."
|
|
Jun 2016
11:45am, 23 Jun 2016
20,090 posts
|
GlennR
Oddly enough Pod don't seem to have made it as far as Lambeth Bridge. Very City oriented.
|
|
Jun 2016
11:51am, 23 Jun 2016
5,044 posts
|
Nicholls595
McG must use the same coffee shop as Harry Enfield
|
|
Jun 2016
12:02pm, 23 Jun 2016
15,224 posts
|
Diogenes
Boots £1 Egg sandwich is very tasty and great value.
|
|
Jun 2016
12:06pm, 23 Jun 2016
24,193 posts
|
McGoohan
The really smiley one has left since then.
|
|
Jun 2016
12:12pm, 23 Jun 2016
29,235 posts
|
Hendo
I like Itsu, shame it isn't part of this d'match
|
My fatherland, my joy and happiness - a deathmatch (25-01)
May 2025