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Ah, if HN readers are fascinated by Pret a Manger, wait 'til they hear about J Lyons tea shops.



Don’t knock Lyons, they made the world’s first business computer[1] for those tea shops ...and they sell crumpets.

This would be like finding out Pret had a side gig in quantum computing ...and crumpets.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)


Yes, LEO was the point. A chain of English tea shops were bleeding-edge pioneers of computing.


And here I've only just heard of Pret a Manger. That's after I misread it as "a Pret manager", which was equally nonsensical.




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