Thank Fathom it’s Friday

A year in lunches

Evie Cottington3 July 2026|

From walking into the office on my first day to entering the final weeks of my year-long placement here, there has been one constant in the Fathom office: and that is Andrew Harris asking if you want to grab lunch. What seems at first like a trivial question quickly becomes more complicated when you are a student living in London with a limited budget. As any good economists would, my fellow placement students and I realised that the answer to his question could probably be found in a spreadsheet, and so the Placement Student Lunch Index was born...