@theventure: These guys turned £100 into a $2 billion sandwich empire 🥪💰 In 1986, London's food scene is boring, almost depressing: soggy pre-packaged sandwiches full of chemicals and preservatives. Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham want something better. There's already a shop called Pret A Manger, but it just went bust. So instead of inventing a new name, they buy Pret, the name, the branding, everything, for £100. They open on Victoria Street with one simple rule: make it fresh, every day, with real food. No preservatives, nothing kept overnight. ✓ Drives whatever doesn't sell to homeless shelters that same night ✓ Puts in the unglamorous work, with Beecham cleaning the shop himself every morning before the first customer ✓ Wins Londoners over so fast one shop becomes ten, then a hundred ✓ Spreads across the US, France, Hong Kong, and Dubai Depressing sandwich scene → buy a bankrupt name for £100 → fresh food, nothing kept overnight → clean the shop by hand every morning → 530 shops on three continents → $2B exit. Sometimes the £100 nobody else wanted is worth more than a brand-new idea. What overlooked, written-off thing could you turn into something people love? 🤔 #Business #Pret #Food #Success #Entrepreneur @Pret A Manger @Pret A Manger USA

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