Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,805 total reviews)
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Paul Carbone

40% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,805 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
Feb 19, 2013

Unfair

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The other team members I worked with at this location for the most part were good. The job itself was easy.

Cons

The management staff at this location is awful. No one knows how to do their job, and new employees aren't trained properly nor are expected to hold up their end of work. More experienced works are forced to do it for them.

2.0
Feb 19, 2013
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Pros

The best part about working at Panera was their food; employees were friendly

Cons

People were very friendly at work, but crazy outside of work, management was bi-polar. The general manager would either try to buddy up to you or be threatening to fire you. You could not show your tattoos even if they were tasteful, and no could not wear your hat backwards after the store close-- while cleaning-- their was tremendous pressure to push the Panera Card onto customers

3.0
Feb 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The crew is wonderful, hard workers, great pay for management, bennifits are ok, used to offer free food to employees,, will give you the free liberty to do whatever it takes to make the customer happy.

Cons

Management is a joke, hardwork and dedication never pays off, misleading about no late nights...some nights you don't leave till 1130, to much to do and not enough time to do it, keep piling on the work to no avail. Discouraging when your a dedicated employee and they don't reward. Oh and Mindshare sucks!!

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