Panera Bread reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(18,810 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,810 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Panera Bread employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.4 stars).

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19K reviews
2.0
Mar 9, 2014

Great coworkers, terrible managers.

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Pros

Customers were always happy to be there and I was lucky enough to have friendly and fun coworkers. Great as a first job.

Cons

Panera always keeps their employees there way after schedule, including minors. The managers were always coming and going and were very disorganized. Training was never up to date for new employees and it was unnecessarily stressful.

2.0
Mar 8, 2014
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Pros

The other associates I worked with were super nice and incredibly helpful. Most of the customers were friendly as well....

Cons

Management was terrible. The store manager seemed to mostly pick on me out of the 30+ that worked at this location. She would move me to tears at times. Just plain rudeness and an unfavorable environment to work in.

2.0
Mar 8, 2014

Mediocre

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free Panera for lunch, that's about it.

Cons

The manager didn't seem to care and were not that friendly. Didn't bother to teach you anything and kind of left you on your own. Turnover rate is crazy high.

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