Phone: +441614373453
Address: Terminal 1 Arrivals, M90 1QX, Manchester, United Kingdom
City: Manchester
Dishes: 12
Reviews: 488
Website: https://locations.pret.co.uk/manchester/terminal-1-unit-c6
"So there ya go, I came across this wonderful Pret within Manchester’s gleaming, clean and tidy airport soon after a review of rip off Starbucks at Belfast’s scruffy, poorly maintained, Belfast International Airport; image this dump is our offer of an international airport. The differences between these places are stark, Prets food is fresh made daily and very good indeed, their coffee is ace, the staff were friendly and helpful, the place was clean and it was tidied twice in the 40 minutes we were there. Social distancing was properly observed and contact details were requested as we were sitting in. Best of all for customers we weren’t ripped off. Once Pret sets up in Norn Iron Starbucks are likely to lose my loyalty. For £13.98 total I had a crayfish avocado salad with a super flat white. They provide little sachets of blooming marvellous Tabasco sauce ; my wife indulged in a cappuccino with a generously filled French style baguette with unsmoked bacon, egg, onion and salad. The bacon had much more bacon than bacon fat. The baguette was crispy and about 10” long. Pret food is handmade in their shop kitchens throughout the day and anything they don 't sell, goes to charity. Their coffee is 100% organic and they have a Coffee Fund to support the next generation of farmers. Their teas, milks and milk alternatives are also organic. They have produced their first Environment, Social and Governance report that sits on their website. They say that they are committed to publishing future reports to track sustainability progress over the years to come. They have had a zero landfill policy for all their managed UK shops since 2012 and customers have been able to recycle bottles and cans in shops since 2007. So while I can’t find if their organic coffee is shade grown and bird friendly it’s still 3 green stars. The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in the USA has developed the only 100% Organic and Shade Grown coffee certification in the world called Bird Friendly Certification with the noble aim that every bean is produced organically and under high quality shade, ensuring tropical agroforests are preserved and migratory birds find a healthy haven when they travel from northern climes to those faraway farms producing the beans. With widespread clear cutting for sun coffee plantations, it 's imperative to protect the tropical forest that remains and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. It’s also hard to find if they pay staff living wages so maybe they do and they’ll report on this soon."
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