Panera Bread reviews

The compensation, 10¢;/year raises. Promotion is entirely based on nepotism, not ability; which leads to incompetent management. Promotion opportunities are intentionally kept hidden from associates, Trying to make WAY too much profit from a food establishment. Not putting the profit back into the infrastructure. (eg. "'Panera Says It Can't Handle Crush' Inefficiencies Have Driven Away Customers, Hurt Sales" -WSJ) Treats Labor Cost like it's evil. (Aim's for 12.5%, regularly hits 10%...) Not firing someone and instead assigning them 0 hours (so they don't have to pay unemployment) Temporary drinking-money job for college students (who usually know more than the management..) Bottom line: too too too greedy for a restaurant. "The survey on the bottom of your receipt" is absolutely useless and given too much weight. Over-reaching on their sustainability and health claims. Using their "no jerks" policy as a cover-all to fire anyone who speaks up. So much more frozen/pre-packaged food.

Everything else. No upper managerial skills, cheap (beg for repairs, months to fix), NO benefits. General apathy or anger from co-workers over conditions.