Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,794 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 18,794 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
Sep 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Plenty of interaction with people, coworkers are usually great, great job if you are looking for something part-time, or while in college

Cons

Everything is about time (mainly about making more money for the company), the occasional bad customer, not always paid appropriately (I made more than my trainers on my first day than they did after 2 years)

4.0
Sep 19, 2012

Bakers asst

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

10 free food Good culture if you like baking very customer oriented

Cons

night shift so so pay can be stressful

1.0
Sep 18, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It was easy to get hired. They give a discount on lunch and a free loaf of bread each week.

Cons

The pay is poor. The managers and shift supervisors don't communicate with each other so the staff is constantly getting contradictory information. They track sales per work hour all day so if the sales are low they ask staff members to leave early or take a lunch break even if they have just arrived. I was laid off with zero warning. I had done nothing wrong and the manager acknowledged that fact. I just ran into a former Panera manager working at another business and he said that they are laying off staff and managers all over this district.

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