Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,789 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 18,789 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
Oct 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, insurance, 401K and free meals

Cons

Everything else. You will be overloaded. Store managers do not care about your baker equipment and will make your life difficult by not getting you what you need to do your job effectively like right equipment, right ingredients fixing oven and proof box etc. They also will blame you when the bake does not come out right even though you do not have the right stuff. Your market manager and BTS will be of little help. Upper management only cares about the profits at all cost so be ready to be a slave. A lot of the stores have poor functioning equipment, sanitation issues and pest problems. Be ready to get sick!

1.0
Jun 20, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

free food because no one pays attention to inventory. Can literally walk out with bags of soup if you really wanted to. Saves on groceries. No managers to deal with because they dont want to do their jobs, so they never show up.

Cons

0 communication between café and Bakery managers. BTS will make any excuse to not do their job, including taking assistant bakers from busy cafés so they can go home early. Constant changes to scheduling with little to no heads-up. BMMs do not communicate in any form with bakers. Trying to callout of work will result in no reply, no matter if it was made 12 hours before a shift. Night-bakers blindsided by $15k catering orders with no assistance or additional cookware. BTS/BMMs never answer their phones despite working the same hours as night bakers. new Assistant baker hires making $11/hr, while a fully trained Head Night Baker makes $12/hr whilst doing 3 times the work. Constant changes to the menu resulting in not only the normal pan up items, but all new test items, and online training daily for weeks, with no additional hours or pay increase, all with little to no additional assistance (generallt working alone). Told by BTS to put away truck deliveries (not my job) because someone was not scheduled to do it (laso not my job). Told to work 10+ hour shifts and do the day bakers job if they called out or did not show up, at no increased pay. No reimbursment for gas when told to work at cafés even when 20+ miles away. Forced to work in a market far outside the market in which I lived (forced to drive 20+ minutes to cafés, even though I live less than 45 seconds from a café, because I had a car and someone else did not, still not reimbursed gas). After I was promoted, took 6 months for me to get my raise, and I only recieved that after complaining to a higher up. Actively did about 50% of mu job for 3 months, BTS and BMM did not say a single word to me, esencially allowing it, because they could not afford me quitting at the time. Overall a horrible experience.

1.0
May 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free meals and free bread from night before.

Cons

Took over 4 weeks before I received my first paycheck . I was asked to clock out and keep working to finish cleaning after shift was over. My first 2 months was liked that for 30-60 minutes each day working after end of shift clocked out with no pay. I had enough after that abuse and left. Management at corporate level on down was terrible.

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