JAB’s Pret A Manger Buys U.K. Competitor; Jamie Oliver’s Chain Empire Collapses In Bankruptcy

Two big stories in the U.K. chain restaurant world last week: –Pret A Manger, the U.K.-based grab-and-go concept owned by Germany’s JAB Holdings (which also owns Panera Bread, Einstein Bros. Bagels and Caribou Coffee in the U.S. and earlier this year formed Pret Panera Holding Co. to operate the chains) reached an agreement to buy…