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      Panera Bread

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      Panera Bread reviews

      3.4

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (18,762 total reviews)
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      Paul Carbone

      41% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,762 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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      Reviews by job title

      19K reviews
      1.0
      Nov 21, 2010

      starts out good then it all changes

      Associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      food at a discount, scheduling, good place to make friends and i could get by with alot because management was never around

      Cons

      nobody wants to really work but just habve fun and it made me not want to work either. managers always had there favorites and upper management would promote friends instead of people who really deserved it. when you are really busy its hard to get help because the managers think what they are doing is more inportant than helping the customers so the customers have to wait too long.

      2.0
      Nov 12, 2010

      o

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      benefits are dependent upon the franchisee

      Cons

      no mobility to corporate, fragmented, leadership has too many strata

      3.0
      Nov 4, 2010

      easy high school job, college job

      Associate trainer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - great food - great people working there (most of them) - understood you were a student - VERY flexible hours

      Cons

      - i thought the discount sucked, i mean its food why should you pay - its minimum wage so that sucked - managers have their favorites - management cant seem to agree with each other - example from my store: the managers literally all ganged up on one manager to try and make him look bad . he happened to be the ONLY manager the younger employees could get along with. - audits and checkups for the most random and annoying things - if you are a girl it definitely helps - favorite saying from one manager: "just stand there and look pretty" - customers can be really nasty - someone can come to you with an empty bowl of soup and DEMAND their money back for not liking it - i felt really bad for management panera bread was definately becoming their lives

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