[03.01.2005]

£1 million contract with Pret a Manger

Pret a Manager, a leading sandwich retailer is replacing the remainder of their legacy Uniwell tills with Toshiba TEC ST-60 tills all running InnTouch, Alphameric Hospitality’s touch screen EPOS solution. Pret has 125 outlets in the United Kingdom and a further 17 outlets in The United States and Hong Kong. Once the rollout is completed, every Pret a Manger shop worldwide will be using Alphameric Hospitality’s InnTouch as their point of sale solution.

InnTouch, which has multi currency as standard, delivers high levels of transaction accuracy and speed for ensuring efficiency at the point of sale and reducing customer queuing times for food service outlets.

Andrew Walker, Director of Shops at Pret a Manger comments “InnTouch has the high level of functionality to support our operations and staff. The team at Alphameric Hospitality has spent a significant amount of time understanding our business over the past 5 years – how we operate now, our ambitions and our requirements as we expand into other countries and have responded to our needs to build this successful relationship.”

Steve Mansfield, Managing Director of Alphameric Hospitality adds “As an extremely strong and respected brand within the food service market we are proud of our relationship with Pret a Manger. Designed specifically for the hospitality marketplace, InnTouch is ideally suited to the Pret environment and we are delighted now to have InnTouch operating in every Pret shop throughout the world.“

About Pret a Manger
Pret A Manger is a privately owned company founded in 1986 by Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham. It aims to deliver high quality food with a fast, friendly service. Its menu features handmade sandwiches (including baguettes and wraps), salads, sushi, and desserts, along with teas and coffees. Fresh ingredients are delivered each morning to the shops, and unsold products are donated to local charities in the evenings.