Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,790 total reviews)
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Paul Carbone

40% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Panera Bread has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18,790 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
3.0
Jul 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For the most part, those who work there are very friendly and will help you out if you're having an issue at work or will notify a manager or someone that can help. The break time and food discount is pretty decent an Management has improved.

Cons

This is not a career type job. They pay minimum wage for what feels like a full time job, and the hours will fluctuate drastically due to the high turnover rate. The biggest problem with this so far is that there are too few trainers and too many trainees, so no one really gets trained like they'er supposed to and will often feel lost in what ever it is that they are doing. I understand that call outs are difficult to cover, but for those people who rarely call out for reasons beyond their power ( Sick with a cold/flu or family in the hospital/death) there is absolutely no justification for you when you try to make us feel bad and come into work anyway. "Sick is sick" and "if you're sick, stay home" remember? You're running a restaurant/cafe? If the staff is sick, they can't be working around FOOD as that is in fact a FOOD CONTAMINATION RISK and a Health risk to the other staff members and the customers coming in.

5.0
Jul 12, 2016

Awesome

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Well, this place is pretty dang awesome, management is great, and they pay really really well, and the discount is to die for.

Cons

Management is great, but they are really really obvious about who their favourite are, and can be slightly judgmental again everyone who has different views than them.

5.0
Jun 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Corporate culture is great, provided you immediate team buys in. Company is what you want it to be. Great product.

Cons

Pay could be better. Benefits are severely lacking. Very difficult for your voice to be heard in the sea of beauracracy.

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