Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,804 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 18,804 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
1.0
Jan 9, 2013

Aweful..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Busy environment! Good food, Ummm

Cons

Condescending staff, wouldnt give breaks, micro-managed, you are expected to make Panera Bread your life. Regional manager was very snarky asked my why I was laid off from a job. When I replied my position was eliminated, She replied, but why do you think "you" were laid off. Pay is poor for what is expected you. Little is put into employee training unless its upper management

2.0
Jan 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Employee Discount -Friendly Customers -Concern for nutritional value (listed within the menu and on bakery items)

Cons

-Favorites -Inflexible Scheduling -Lazy Managers -Rigid operations -Hostile environment BOH

1.0
Jan 5, 2013

Horrible inside politics!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The other workers are very nice. It is usually pretty busy and makes you day go by quicker. Flexible schedule over time.

Cons

Promoting from within is crap. No matter how good a worker you are or how long you work there if you upset one person you will be quickly booted out. They dont fire ppl they drop hours to nothing or ship you to another store to get you to quit so they dont have to pay unemployment. Some managers are very sexist and make improper comments to employees. If you say anything you get shipped out so that you will quit. The cultural values that panera suppose dly "lives" by are also crap.

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