Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,785 total reviews)
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Paul Carbone

40% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,785 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
3.0
Sep 5, 2012

high school job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

allowed me to be around people, and have fun with my employees. never really a dull moment when I was working with my friends.

Cons

Management sucked. Scheduling was unfair toward the end, and favoritism was evident. Wish they moved around employees more from cashier to the line so we could all be experienced.

4.0
Aug 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management and co-workers are generally nice The work is easy to learn Shift Supervisors are generally friendly and fun

Cons

Never get a raise No matter how long you've worked there, you are still treated the same as a brand-new employee The customers that walk in are total tools who think they own the place Also, the customers are generally dumb NO LONGER GET FREE PASTRIES AT THE END OF THE NIGHT. You do much more work on night shift, cleaning everything, hard manual floor-scrubbing, and now we no longer get the reward of free pastries/bread at the end of the night. Completely and totally bogus. Double the amount of work, same rate of pay.

2.0
Aug 13, 2012

Not so good

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some good co workers, can be easy

Cons

terrible management, people dont know how to run the store. frequent product and things missing . low pay for such hard work. low raises

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