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Transcript: High UK Interest Rates Not ‘End of the World,’ Restaurant Boss Says

Read the conversation between Pret A Manger Founder and Itsu CEO Julian Metcalfe and In the City hosts David Merritt and Francine Lacqua. 

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In this week’s episode of In the City, hosts David Merritt and Francine Lacqua interview Pret A Manger founder and Itsu CEO Julian Metcalfe, who says that the restaurant business is “incredibly difficult,” but when you’re determined, you can make it happen.

Metcalfe also shares details of his current mission to make Itsu, a fast-food chain he founded in 1997, a destination for speedy, healthy meals at low prices.