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# Brandwich?
- URL: https://blah.untangleyourbrand.com/brandwich/
- Published: 2026-01-15T20:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-20T20:05:30.000Z
- Description: Tracing a career through the choices of lunch and the habits that shape how we work.
- Author: Nigel Davies
- Tags: Brands, insight

What does your lunch say about you? With struggling high street retailers and the slow demise of the office sandwich, I started to think about my career journey through the sandwiches I chose.

**Local Italian deli**; massive bap with gloopy tuna mayonnaise (first job, cheap sandwich).  
**EAT**; beef, rocket and parmesan baguette (I was in trendy Clerkenwell, it felt premium).  
**Exmouth Market corner café**; chicken with lettuce and salad cream, nothing else, in a polystyrene box (I was running a business and trying to lose weight).  
**Prêt-a-Manger**; egg mayonnaise with cheese and onion crisps (even trendier Soho office next to a Veggie Prêt).  
**Waitrose**; strange seafood salad that is not really seafood or salad (office in Greenwich near the supermarket).  
**Co-op**; BLT with prawn cocktail crisps (working from home and they do not offer much else).

So what does this say about me?  
I will not go far to get lunch.  
Convenience is king when time is limited.  
I have phases and tastes that evolve, though I stay loyal.  
Cutting out carbs really helps shift weight. So why did I go back to sandwiches?  
It makes me consider working in town again.  
I would miss the high street sandwich shops if they all disappeared.

What does your lunch say about you and how you work?