Panera Bread reviews

- Too many hours for management (salaried managers required to work 50 hours/week, usually its closer to 60 though) - Incompetent managers (as an associate and as a manager I worked with some of the worst managers, people who were fired from full service restaurants, etc, and power-tripping 19 year old managers) - Food is not real (no actual cooking, everything is frozen and portioned out, even the dough and pastry blanks are frozen and pre-made) - High turnover (good for hours if your hourly, but pretty depressing when in 4 months you are working with entirely new people, also managers come and go like crazy, they promote just about anyone and apparently hire just about anyone too) - Pay (pretty terrible, Covelli Enterprises starts hourly at minimum wage, shift supervisors get no more than $9-10/hour, and assistant managers get $30-36k/year for very long work weeks) - Covelli is about as stingy as it gets, labor, product, pay, everything - I realize that's why they are so profitable, but invest some profit into taking care of your people and I bet there wont have as astounding of turnaround as exists

Management is an absolute joke; Often show little to no respect for coworkers, play favorites and play the blame game when something goes wrong on their part. More often than not, they are not knowledgeable enough to know how to make certain food items. Unexpected changes without proper warning, such as new food items or line setups. Teamwork is not a value among associates as everyone seems to be on their own agenda, inconsiderate and sometimes rude to others. Incompetent staffing, sometimes with too many or too few associates in their zones. Compensation is not worth the workload, especially for line workers.