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
4.0
Feb 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You can easily learn all the required positions.

Cons

At my location, at least, it is very hard to get a raise. I've been working there for 2 years and never been written up and still no raise.

3.0
Feb 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

flexible 45 hour work week, free meals, tremendous growth opportunity.

Cons

Misleading hiring terms and Extreme favoritism on the store and area level. Basically, if your not in the favor of upper management or around when they are to see you, it doesn't help you no matter how hard you've worked for them. They single out kiss ass employees for promotions regardless of their ability or work ethic. which is pretty pathetic. My self and other former employees were promised rapid advancement and then left for dead after a short time.

3.0
Feb 6, 2013

It wasn't horrible

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are a lot of nice workers here. You get 50% off on your break and they are pretty flexible with availabilities.

Cons

Lately they are understaffed. The managers can be rude .

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