Panera Bread reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(18,794 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 18,794 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
Jan 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great fellow workers, good food, very clean, always opportunity for extra hours when other employees call out, liked the ability to work very early in the morning.

Cons

managers are not promoted form within so part time high school aged employees were training the managers. Also resulted in lazy managers that were too good to pitch in on the floor when needed

3.0
Jan 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Loved my co-workers and the customers

Cons

Their answer to reports of sexual harassment and violations of labor laws was to create a hostile work environment and eventually firing the employee for reporting sexual harassment. They never investigated.

3.0
Dec 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

65% discount is great. The associates are great to work with. All the veteran employees are hard workers. Seasonal menu changes are fun. Getting promoted is possible. Busy and fast paced environment.

Cons

The customers can be SO rude. Very high turnover rate. Always understaffed and always training new people just for them to quit. Management is very disrespectful. Environment is negative. Acts like training is serious but it actually isn't that good. False promises as far as portion training and promotions go.

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