Panera Bread is so gross, how did this place ever become a "thing"?

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Anonymous wrote:I do remember it being much better years ago. Now it's just not the same. The place feels a little dirtier now, too.

However, I won't completely write it out! The coffee, pastries, and bagels/breads are fine. Great place to grab a breakfast on the go in the morning. It's our go-to after 5K races or the likes. At our particular location, it's a popular spot for high schoolers to meet up to study and work on group projects.

The original St. Louis Bread Co used to mix their own flavored cream cheese in house for the bagels and they had around 8-10 different flavors depending on the day. I miss that.

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Anonymous wrote:All tastes like plastic. So does Subway.

Subway IS PLASTIC.

50% plastic, 20% preservatives, the rest is food (sort of).

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My parents love eating at Panera. I pray my hometown doesn't get one or we'll be eating that every time we go for a visit!

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I only eat breakfast there - egg and cheese sandwich or a bagel, and their app is a big incentive. I put in my order when I leave home in the morning, run in and grab it on my way to the metro without interacting with anyone. Agree the quality has gone downhill in recent years, but the egg sandwich is still good!

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The people that work there are bottom of the barrel. They just don't seem clean or at all hard working, to me. Chipotle seems to have staff issues, too.

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Anonymous wrote:The people that work there are bottom of the barrel. They just don't seem clean or at all hard working, to me. Chipotle seems to have staff issues, too.

More to the point, I'd gladly pay higher prices if the food was top shelf (it's def not) and/or the employees were aces (they're not).

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Their gigantic bagels are low grade (more like huge pieces of bread) and even worse, they go through the effort of putting cream cheese on them. They give you some freezing cold side of cream cheese. Place is just awful.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually love Panera and probably get it once a week. Their baked potato and chicken and wild rice soups are so yummy and I love their salads. I don't find them expensive at all. My husband and I will get two "you pick two" items and 2 drinks and it's around $25?

It's garbage empty calorie not fresh at all fast food. The meal you paid $25 for isn't worth $5.

Sorry but again, I don't find $25 expensive for two meals and drinks.

So in addition to their calorie fat & sodium bomb meals, you take their sugar bomb drinks too. Yikes.

Lmao Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realize getting 2 water bottles with our meals was a sugar bomb. You seem overly angry with Panera lmao move on

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Anonymous wrote:The people that work there are bottom of the barrel. They just don't seem clean or at all hard working, to me. Chipotle seems to have staff issues, too.

It's obvious that you keep posting over and over. We all get it, you think Panera is "trashy". However I'm willing to bet you aren't that spectacular yourself.

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because people in places like Dumfries, VA think it is high-brow.

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I thought it was good 10-15 years ago. I've been twice in the past 10 years and both times not good.

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Anonymous wrote:The sandwiches we were catered appeared to be a high end offering. The bread was garbage wheat you'd find in any supermarket, the cheese was two cold flavorless tiny rectangles, few pieces of wilted (see: NOT fresh) greens, rubbery cold flavorless turkey (previously frozen?)...

Honestly, ruined my day.

Ok, precious

Who sits around thinking about stuff like this? FFS just don't eat there!

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Anonymous wrote:I actually love Panera and probably get it once a week. Their baked potato and chicken and wild rice soups are so yummy and I love their salads. I don't find them expensive at all. My husband and I will get two "you pick two" items and 2 drinks and it's around $25?

It's garbage empty calorie not fresh at all fast food. The meal you paid $25 for isn't worth $5.

Sorry but again, I don't find $25 expensive for two meals and drinks.

So in addition to their calorie fat & sodium bomb meals, you take their sugar bomb drinks too. Yikes.

Lmao Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realize getting 2 water bottles with our meals was a sugar bomb. You seem overly angry with Panera lmao move on

You drink water out of a plastic bottle? ? Environment? Endocrine disrupting chemical bath??
Do people still do that?

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Cookies are yucky - no butter, just made with tasteless oils.
I think mcD’s is higher class personally.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents love eating at Panera. I pray my hometown doesn't get one or we'll be eating that every time we go for a visit!

Haha my MIL *loves* that place. I'm getting her a giftcard as one of her Christmas gifts.