This was in my sandwich tonight. Good times.

Just like what happened with the pomegranate hibiscus iced tea, it’s happening again with the blackberry hibiscus iced tea. Every time I try to order one they’re out of stock. This has been happening for about two weeks now and at more than one location. I think I might have to cancel my Sip club because that’s really the only drink I like to get. I don’t care for any of the other free drinks.

sliced baguette, tomato,
LEFT: cheddar and piece of steak
RIGHT: parmesan
both topped with cilantro because we ran out of basil. solid 8.9/10 for the left, and still a 9.5/10 for the right

The au jus seems like undiluted French onion soup?

Ive been working at panera on the line for about a month and a half now, its my first food service job and my second job. I believe my first two weeks there, my team lead was training me on salads. I was finishing up a salad and my coworker (i dont know if she's a AM, but she usually takes the lead when the GM isn't around) told me "Hey, you've got e-learning videos to finish up. Go ahead and do that" and I responded with "I will in a second let me just finish this salad" and she turned around in an angry tone and said "When you're told to get off the line get off the line!" And I looked at my team lead, apologized then apologized to my coworker who raised her voice at me, put the lid on the salad and headed over to grab the ipad. My team lead spoke to me before I was clocking out saying that her behavior wasn't okay especially since she was in the middle training me. She told me that no one really liked her and picks on new hires sometimes.

Fast forward to my last shift, we were pretty busy and theres was about three of us working the back and one person on QC, the one who yelled at me previously. I will admit this was my fault because I had less than 10 minutes on my shift, still had to wipe down the counters and sweep the line and I had a birthday lunch to get to right after I clocked out. I was finishing up a dipper and didnt realize that the spoodle didnt catch all the meat it was supposed to. I threw it in the oven and was finishing up a cold sandwhich when the QC takes out the dipper and says "I'm going to need this one remade" and I responded with "oh, why?" Because personally I like to know whenever I do something wrong so I can make sure to get it right the next time. She then exploded on me saying "Wouldn't you be mad if you had to pay for this!?! Wouldn't you be mad!?!" I felt the line go quiet and I knew my coworkers were all staring at her.

She was reffering to the meat portion being on the smaller side, I never cheap out on portion sizes but given how I was just rushing I didnt notice. I forgot what else she said since I lowkey started to dissociate and just responded with "Sorry, i'll remake it right now". But yeah, I would've remade that too if I had noticed, my coworker told me she had no right to call me out the way she did, and that she was basically being a jerk.

I think we should let people know when they're not doing something right, 100%. Especially in the service industry, but I dont think its right the way she's been doing. Im not making excuses since I'm about 1 month and a half into this job, but you never know what people have going on in there lives and a little bit of grace doesnt hurt anyone, especially if you're leading your team under example. It goes a long way.

From my memory photos
The cheese was 2 oz not 1.5 , croissants was rounded

Recently visited two locations in NC, they proceeded to tell me that no locations have them! What’s going on?

Just curious.

I was offered a catering coordinator position and I’m trying to decide if I should leave my current hospital job for it. The base pay is a little lower, but I was told tips can make up the difference and sometimes be more. The hours could start really early, and I’m worried I might be making the wrong move.
Has anyone done this job? What’s it actually like?

hi im in this sub as a lover of panera, have a $30 giftcard for someone who wants it. tell me your favorite meal from panera!

priority to those who have a need for this or are having a rough week/day

I was let go, I didn’t resign for my lease - I sign for my house in a week . I am devastated and I’m balling my eyes out . I did beg and pleaded to just be relocated or transferred. Yet they said they rather let me go even tho I’m a good employee.

I have no place to live in 2 weeks .
I have no job
I have to give up my dream of owning a home .

Hi!

I litterally just got hired at panera bread, im keeping my other job.

They want a full time employee, closer.

Im excited as my current job only works me once a week and pays me $2.75 less. I mostly work closing at my job now as well.

Only thing im worried about as my 2 past jobs were retail and this is food. Any advice or anything I should be aware, my boss at my current job gave me this job rec as he used to work there and he loves the management and they seem super nice, just super nervous as this is my first new job in nearly 2 years.

I’ve been an employee with Panera for 7 years and have worked every position possible besides GM and are currently a baker. I went on my day off with 2 of my friends and each of our items were wrong. I asked for tomatoes and arugula on my sandwich and the cashier didn’t even modify it. First friend ordered a pick two bowl of broccoli cheddar and bowl of French onion and received a pick two cup of broccoli and a French dipper. Second friend ordered a full chicken dipper and they only made a half. We were the third order on screen and didn’t get our order for 20 minutes. Salad person was on their phone while sandwich had about 8-10 orders on screen and he was moving at a sloths pace. Back when I was working on the line everybody actually had a sense of urgency to get orders out and to help where needed if you got caught up on your own line. With the cashier, he didn’t even repeat back the order and confirm anything. I think he might have spoken 5 words to the three of us. Not even a “welcome in” or “have a good day” either. This is so ridiculous it’s actually funny

I always order through the app, but today ordered at the in-store kiosk. To my surprise, I got a pop-up offer for a $2 pastry. I used to get those all the time when ordering on the app, but haven't had one in over a year. Does anyone know if those only happen now if you order on the kiosk?

I just got hired as a restaurant team member.

Is it possible for me to become a AGM in 2 years working at panera? I have a lot of local cafe experience and I also worked at starbucks for a year. I do not have supervisor or manager experience.

Rock and also they destroy the moon heheh and the strongest planet on earth hhwhehw

Have the large hot cups got smaller? The workers since the new sip club of 1 a day keep giving me a small cup when I keep asking for a large. It seems like I am getting a cup that is a few ounces smaller then before they changed to one a day plan.

This is my first time ordering a smoothie from Panera Bread. I was extremely confused; I placed a pickup order. They said it would be ready, and I arrived several minutes after the time they quoted. I am pretty sure they use ice, but is it supposed to be blended or whole? I wasn't expecting Smoothie King or Jamba Juice, but I was expecting it to be blended! Is this normal operation?

sliced bread, parmesan, slice of tomato, basil, that mysterious oil in the bottle from breakfast, and another little slice of parmesan. 9.5/10 would maybe taste a tiny bit better with some kind of meat on it

I’ve been at Panera for about 6 months now. I started doing the morning bake and the prep afterwards a few weeks ago. Anybody have any tips and tricks on how to build up my speed?

Just curious does anyone on the Marketing team at Corporate use AI? It’s not hard to gather sentiment through surveys built into the app. Give your opinion and get $2 off next order - population would be people who go to Panera at least twice a week. Another sample of those who haven’t been to a store in 30 days. Fairly simple to gather the intel. Instead of implementing stuff nobody cares about (ie Dubai chocolate) why not get real opinions? For example, why not extend the Breakfast menu to 12 noon? Why not offer mini pizzas? How about a special promo for the thousands of seniors who congregate every Sunday morning? Also translation into Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese - yes they are a significant chunk of your clientele in certain markets. Your data analytics team has this I go and so do your staff. Listen to them.

People will provide the information for free instead of hiring a market research consultant for $180,000 a year to tell them the same thing. Then customize the incentives and promotions, tweak the SIP Club and offer better menu items. And pay attention to Reddit, because some of the graphics are just gross. Observe what’s working and what isn’t and handle it. In other words, wake up Corporate.

For all my Panera workers what time do you usually clock out of work? Especially if you break down sandwich and salad lines. My Panera closes at 9 and sometimes I clock out at 9:55 is this normal?​ I really hate breaking down sandwich/salads lines