Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,779 total reviews)
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Paul Carbone

40% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,779 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
2.0
Aug 18, 2010
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Pros

Free baked goods at the end of the night, if you're closing. No previous experience needed. They paid me slightly above state minimum wage when I worked there. No *specific* uniform, other than a hat, although there are rules: you have to wear a solid polo shirt and non-jeans pants/capris. I got some coffee experience here which led to my next job as a barista. Decent discount on food there - I think 40% or 50%.

Cons

WAY longer hours than I had been led to believe at interview. There's a very high employee turnover rate - can't say I'm surprised. Pay is dismal for the amount of work done. Physically exhausting. Scheduling was different from week to week and asking for time off was like pulling teeth - even though at the interview they told me they wanted my school activities to come first, I was given a hard time and fired shortly after taking 2 weeks off for the performances of a school play I was heavily involved in (and had been for months). I came back post-firing to collect my last paycheck, and one of the managers asked where I had gone -- not even the management communicated amongst themselves! He hadn't known I had been fired and seemed pretty annoyed that I had been.

4.0
Aug 15, 2010
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Pros

The people that you work with and around in Muncie are great. Obviously everyone has their flaws, but overall, its a great atmosphere. I worked there for 3.5 years and was given any time off that I asked for. They did a great job working around class schedules and the managers updated their employee availability schedules in accordance with the school semesters; that way you could choose your classes and be scheduled for work around your school schedule.

Cons

There aren't too many cons to working at Panera Bread. Just like any fast food company, go in knowing that the likely hood of professional advancement is near nill. You will have your co workers that talk about you behind your back, b.s. politcs, power hungry managers, but none of those things are any worse or any different that what you would typically find at any job setting.

3.0
Aug 12, 2010
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Pros

Decent Salary Reasonable Hours Fun environment High Quality Product Generally Enjoyable Staff Quiet Atmosphere Compared to Most Restaurants Don't Have too close 100% of the time

Cons

Hectic Management No Overtime for Hourly Employees Early Mornings Working Stations During Managerial Shift Pay Increases are few and far between

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