Panera Bread

Attentive customer service. Great homie feeling. Good food, but a bit on the pricey side. Similar food & experience at Corner Bakery for Half the Price. But, if you live close by or it’s convenient. Definitely hearty food & a great experience. For me to spend 14$ on half a sandwich & a cup of soup is Insane. Beware, getting half a sandwich & cup of soup is not getting you a combo price, they will charge you the full price of half a sandwich which usually is around 7.79$ plus a cup of soup for 6$. You r better of buying a full sandwich for 10$ & adding a cup of soup =16$. So for 2$ extra Dollars you get a full sandwich & for 2$ extra dollars you can get a bowl of soup. I feel that 18$ for a full sandwich & a bowl of soup is still pricey compared to Corner Bakery, but fair. 14$ for half a sandwich & a cup of soup is just insane. At Corner Bakery that would be 7$. & don’t make me get started on their basic tiny half Chinese Salad for 8$. At least the French onion soup was DELICIOUS, so was the bbq sandwich. Their pastry, particularly the chocolate croissant, well priced & scrumptious. & 6 good hot tea options with honey under 3$ with refill.

Clean inside, open and spacious feeling. Way overpriced. No deviation orders. (We requested a plain chicken patty for the dogs.) Ohnno! It has to come with the bun. $12.99 for a plain chicken sandwich. Request for no potato chips. What do you think? Of course they gave us chips. Grilled cheese and thai chicken soup, $15.00. Small.cola, $3.00. Plain old orange American cheese. Again requested nno bread. But sure enough..like it or not, bread. With every item. Later, asked for a Togo box, the person behind the curtain points in a vague direction and says, "over there." Over where? Get your skinny behind over here and either bring one box with you or walk over and point them out to people over 40!

Let me first say I have eaten here before and loved the experience. But for every glowing review there are also some less flattering. Poor supply situation tonight, we came for dinner at 6:30 and were told they were out of tomato soup (really worth trying if you haven’t already) and we ordered the Chili (very good) and the ten vegetable soup (amazing). But darn, they ran out of French baguettes so we opted for the spotted grain rolls. Upon delivery, however, they regretted to inform us that there were no more rolls either so it would either be chips or apple slices. I give the girl credit for trying, when I asked what about regular bread she said sure and went a came back with one slice of white sandwich bread, cut in half, one half for each of us. You can imagine the wondering going on in my head as to the short supply of everything, is this a sign of impending closure? Are we among the last customers? As if to heighten the paranoia, my dinner companion’s soup was half again more than mine. Hmmm, did they also run out of the ten vegetable soup and gave me what little remained? We decided to wait until the waitress came by again so our bowls would be untouched and she could see the difference for herself. I asked the waitress and she looked thoughtful then disappeared. As she never came back with an answer I guess I will weigh this unusual experience against five previous excellent experiences I have had at this Panera.

The cashier was kinda rude and got our order wrong, ignoring our comment/ question about its correctness. She talked bad about us to another cashier in front of us, then walked off to wipe tables. The other cashier actually fixed the order for us, ironically. Aside from her, no real complaints about this place.

I order a pick 2 items a salad and sandwich,to eat at the restaurant,waited for over 20 minutes went one time to check on my order they told me that they were behind I understood, time pass by again went for a second time,only this time the manager whose name was Adan or Adam was very rude he just look at me and told me that if I wanted a refund he could give a refund but his response was REALLY RUDE not for a person that is in charge of running this business.it was embarrassing because he did it in front of everyone.