Panera Bread Associate-Prep reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(196 total reviews)
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Paul Carbone

100% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Prep/Associate employees have rated Panera Bread with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 196 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Prep/Associate professionals have a good working experience there. Panera Bread is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Prep/Associate professionals compared to other employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.4 stars).

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196 reviews
4.0
Jun 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Great coworkers -(Mostly) great managers -Work is mostly pretty engaging -Trained well -Place smells fantastic -Great food

Cons

-One manager who was very rude to everyone (even other managers) -Pay is rather low considering the amount of work -Lots of employees are younger doing it part time for summer, so we cycled through a lot of folks

4.0
Apr 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good training, good food. The people I worked with were enjoyable.

Cons

Dealing with the public, but it's a given with the job so it was no surprise to me.

2.0
Aug 18, 2017

Line Cook

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounts on food. Donate bread at the end of the night.

Cons

Management was horrible. At first everyone seemed friendly, but that was all on the surface.

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