A Rant Nobody Expected

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As someone who used to work at Panera, it’s fucking insane how bad it’s gotten. The soups come in bags and the prices are ridiculous. They even did a s’mores thing for“charity” where every $100 they make from s’mores, they donate ONE DOLLAR to a charity of their choosing, fuck Panera Bread.

Panera employee here. Panera used to pride themselves on healthy, clean, hormone free food, but they swapped literally all of their ingredients with cheaper (and nastier) alternatives without saying a word. Literally no better than Burger King now.

I once heard Panera described as overpriced hospital food and I can’t unsee it now.

4:00 Panera has fallen off so hard it’s basically a beverage company now. My wife was sick and wanted chicken noodle soup, so I heroically go get her some… and bro, it was just broth. I paid $8 to pick up and deliver my sick wife a warm cup of betrayal. She asked for comfort food and Panera hit her with the ‘thoughts and prayers’ version of soup.

Kinda hilarious reading Carbone reflecting on Panera's poor decisions in that article. "We cut our portion sizes, started using inferior ingredients, and increased our prices. Turns out, the customers didn't like that."

Was 90% sure this was gonna be another One Punch Man video. Safe to say I did not expect a Panera rant.

I worked at Panera corporate for years in their IT dept. They have laid off almost every corporate employee, there is maybe 300 left to try and run almost 3000 locations. They aren't going to dig out of this. They stopped sourcing their food from decent distribution chains, they stopped updating their technology and sent all of it overseas. JAB (the private equity company that owns Panera) has been trying to get Panera to have an absurd profit margin for years so they can sell and just get out of it. Please dont eat at this ridiculous restaurant

Current Panera employee here. Worked there for the last 4 years and the company has done a lot to cheap out. - They’ve lowered the quality of some menu products by getting them prepackaged rather than taking the time to prep them - Item portions have decreased and become lower quality while prices have increased - Our location has a drive thru that used to have its own production line. Now it isn’t used and all orders including drive thru are made and bagged on one line - Employee discounts have decreased from food being 75% off to 50% (Also if you order the four cheese soufflé in the morning it’s actually only three cheese)

Chipotle, chick fil a, Panera, they’re all dying at an alarming rate because they don’t understand that you don’t play with people’s food. When you go and change prices, portions, and recipes you completely abandon any loyalty people had towards the brand .