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Panera Bread Review:Panera Bread is a baker of bread, fresh from the oven, a symbol of warmth and welcome, a simple pleasure, honest and genuine, a life story told over dinner, a long lunch with an old friend, your weekday morning ritual, the kindest gesture of neighbors, home, family, and fiends (Panera Bread). Panera Bread is a restaurant that is between a fast food, and sit-down. Panera Bread has a warm and welcoming atmosphere, food that is full of flavor, and is involved with the community. Overall Panera Bread is a first-rate place to eat at because of their welcoming atmosphere, there flavorful food, and there involvement with the community.As you walk up to Panera Bread you see table outside with people enjoying their meal and the summer weather in the shade. The sidewalks and parking lot lack any debris that would have blown in or have been discarded by a careless customer. This shows there determination and effort the employees put forth to make the customers experience just that much more enjoyable. As you walk in the door you encounter a very homey feel. Everyone is satisfied with their meal and enjoying it peacefully. The colors that you see are shades of green, orange, brown and tan, along with the lighting, not too dark but not too bright, enhance the homey feel. I was greeted as I came in the door; my order was taken at the counter by a very nice associate. The associate started talking to my about current events, and before I knew it my food was ready. I walked down to the counter to pick up my food and noticed how clean the floors and counters were, another example of Panera Bread’s associates determination and effort. When I received my food the associate preparing the food said “enjoy your meal.” After I ate my food I walked up to the manager and ask for information on what Panera and its associates were about and the manager handed me a card with the rules that the employees go by.This card has in words what I experienced in coming to Panera Bread; everything from coming into the store to getting my food.Panera Bread offers a wide verity of foods. They have deserts, sandwich bread, bagels and many other types of bread. All of their bread is made fresh every morning by trained artisan bakers. In addition to the bread baked in the morning before the store opens more cookies and baguettes are made during the day to ensure the product is as fresh as possible. All of Panera Breads sandwiches and salads are made right when you order. It is really easy to special order any kind of sandwich. You can get them on bagels, you can add any kind of topping they have to any sandwich. The sandwich that I tried was the Chicken Chipotle. It as a chipotle sauce on french bread topped with fresh tomatoes, freshly sliced cheddar cheese, bacon, and pepper mustard chicken, and then toasted to perfection. I really like this sandwich, when I tool my first bit of it the spiciness of the chipotle sauce hit me. At other restaurants like this the sauce is never spicy so it was a pleasant surprise. The fresh tomatoes, cheddar cheese and pepper mustard chicken blended well together to create a well balanced sandwich. Since I only tried one sandwich I asked the other customers how they felt about the food. One family all had the same salad and when I asked them about they said it was the Chicken Creaser Salad. It was all of their favorites menu.Panera Bread believes is giving back to the community. They do this by showing their appreciation for the customers, sponsoring events, participating in charitable events, and Operation Dough-Nation® programs (Panera Bread). Operation Dough-Nation was instated in 1992 and formalized Panera Bread’s involvement with the community. Operation Dough-Nation has two parts the Community Breadbox, and the Day-End Dough-Nation.The Community Breadbox program is a place where customers or anyone can donate money to feed back into the community. Panera Bread matches a part of the donations made and directs the money to non-profit organizations.The Day-End Dough-Nation program packages the unsold bread and allows non-profit organization to sign up to pick up bread at the end of the day. Local food banks and charities are the normal groups who take advantage of Day-End Dough-Nation. Over the past few years Panera Bread has donated more that $12 million worth of bread (Panera Bread).Panera Bread is a first-rate place to eat because of the welcoming atmosphere, its friendly and respectful associates, its flavorful food, and its involvement with the community. I would highly recommend Panera Bread, and so would many of the other regular customers.


As you walk up to Panera Bread you see tables outside with people enjoying their meals in the weather. The sidewalks and parking lot lack any debris that would have blown in or discarded by a customer. This shows effort the employees put forth to make the customers experience more enjoyable. As you walk in the door you encounter a homey feel. Everyone is satisfied with their meal and enjoying it peacefully. The colors that you see are green, orange, brown and tan, along with the lighting, not too dark but not too bright. My order was taken at the counter. The associate started talking to me about current events, and before I knew it my food was ready. I walked down to the counter to pick up my food and noticed how clean the floors and counters were. When I received my food the associate said “enjoy your meal.” After eating I walked up to the manager and asked for information on what Panera was about and the manager handed me a card with the rules the employees go by.