Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,762 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 18,762 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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19K reviews
4.0
Aug 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-decent work environment/atmosphere -builds good customer service skills -fair breaks/schedules/time-off -hard workers CAN and DO move up in the company

Cons

Not the company for you IF: -you do not like fast-paced work -you are impatient (customers take for-ev-er to decide what to order) -you do not like to clean up after people

3.0
Jul 24, 2009

Not bad, but not great

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Easy to learn all aspects of daily business processes - Laid back environment - Most associates are friendly and easy to get along withv

Cons

-Difficult to get promotion -Almost impossible to negotiate salaries and get a raise -Upper management does not fully understand associate issues and does little to alleviate them

3.0
Jul 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best things about being a baker at panera is you work by yourself at night....work at your own pace take as many breaks you want...as long as everything looks presentable to the public and everything is clean before management comes in around 4 or 5 everyone is happy.

Cons

lack of communication from management

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