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
Oct 3, 2013

All depends on management.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome GM (at my store) Great employee discount. Friendly atmosphere Lots of regular customers

Cons

Company is caring less and less about employees (taking away time and 1/2 pay on holidays, no longer offering raises for becoming trainer, annual raises are literally just pennies)

2.0
Aug 5, 2013

hated it

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

free food, co workers were nice, funny.

Cons

manager was an idiot. I could have ran that store better and I don't even have a bachelor's degree

2.0
Aug 4, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

decent pay fulltime hours nice co workers to work with .very little supervision. place is closed so no distractions during production.

Cons

heavy work load when you do see a supervisor they are very critical and not supportive. place left a mess from 3-11 shift.

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