Panera Bread reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(18,807 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 18,807 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 16, 2013

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Pros

food and co-workers are great, and it's good job for someone going to college full-time (they can work around your schedule and it's pretty easy to ask for time off)

Cons

pay is abysmal (you won't get a raise unless you bug them for one) - also, getting sent on breaks late or not at all is not fun... If the pay wasn't so bad this would be an easy four star rating

2.0
Mar 14, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

i found it to be really good as far as everyone working together as more of a team, and every section available for employment has there own assigned duties and stuff, so u know what will be expected of you and what u will be held accountable for, not so much of a loose system.

Cons

no benefits, as well as constantly failing to follow through with their raise policies. not very much opportunity along the lines of moving up in the company.

3.0
Mar 13, 2013

Treated with respect, but used.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible scheduling, short days, responsible co-workers

Cons

Make you do other co-workers duties, you have to fight to get a well deserved raise.

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