Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,803 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 18,803 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
Oct 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Worked very well with school schedules and days off, made sure you were commended appropriately for your efforts, great employee discount, gave you as many hours as your asked for, everything was clear, cut, and dry - nothing to overthink or worry that you're doing wrong, Bread Bashes were a lot of fun, managers try to make it a fun environment for everyone.

Cons

Managers were sometimes too lax, customers can be unruly, irritable, and extremely arrogant and attitudinal (I've only noticed this at Panera, no other places), the management system tend to use veteran employees as free trainers, which wasn't very fair to me, only a 10 cent increase after a year, was also promised a small pay increase for each new "module" I was trained in. I was trained in almost every module, and still saw no pay increases.

3.0
Oct 5, 2012

Pretty good!

Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are patient. Busy , so time goes by fast. They work around your schedule.

Cons

Pay is poor for the amount of work you perform. Food should be free ,only 1/2 half off. Work overload on individuals.

4.0
Oct 5, 2012

Nice people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good first job, can meet a lot of people, and the perk of working toward becoming a manager is great.

Cons

You work with some stupid people, some people who are really not that cool, but for the most part everyone is cordial and nice.

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