Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,782 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 18,782 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
Feb 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The managers are super nice and understanding. Also the work isn’t too hard to do, especially for a food service job.

Cons

It’s very demanding in that it’s always busy.

2.0
Feb 17, 2026

Panera

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent work team & easy to learn job

Cons

Constant training videos, law pay ($14 an hour), must do days of orientation upon hiring and they do not have a consistent schedule for training, do not give you the hours you want, and you must pick up multiple responsibilities for every a dollar or two more an hour

4.0
Feb 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

easy, fun, free cookies, clean

Cons

can be understaffed at times

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