Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,804 total reviews)
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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
2.0
Dec 20, 2012

Just walk away

Recommend
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Pros

You get free food as manager

Cons

They claim they are all about quality of life, and that's how they hook you. You work ridiculous hours, you may leave at midnight and have to be back at 5am. If you have a catering order you may have to be in at 2am. You work a million hours and you are never at a store that is close to where you live.

4.0
Dec 18, 2012

Good experience.

Recommend
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Pros

Very easy to request time off, fair and resonable management, lots of great food to eat, discount on food items, left over bakery items.

Cons

Pay was somewhat low, lots of cleaning, dealing with customers in the food industry can often be unpleasant, 1 day training course is boring and useless.

1.0
Dec 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I loved working at Panera when I first started. The people were good, the food was great, and the customers were, on the average, much less annoying than what they could have been.

Cons

This company, for a few years now, has put a huge restriction on raises for its Cafe's, meaning that what you get paid is what you get paid, and once you have been accredited to all the modules you can be, you get a dollar raise total, and the rest depends on your yearly share between you and all of your coworkers out of the 4-6 dollars of raise each cafe gets. They very much like to stick you to where you are, and to squeeze out what they can out of you before you realize what's going on and move on.

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