Unfortunatelly I cannot compare the quality with what it was in good olden days, but Panera is my family go to place whenever we are on the road. It’s the only place I know in US where you can quickly get a decent salad or soup with predictable quality, and not a bad one. And being a large network I can find it practically anywhere.
Soups and salads in other common eateries, like diners etc are usually awful.
It’s more about how it started as a sort of anti-McDonalds and it’s becoming more and more soulless corporate. No more couches and armchairs, no more bread baked fresh in the restaurant…
I worked at Subway in 1993, frozen tubes of bread dough we would pop in the oven. although I do remember my manager one day making a giant braided bread out of fresh dough.
Unfortunatelly I cannot compare the quality with what it was in good olden days, but Panera is my family go to place whenever we are on the road. It’s the only place I know in US where you can quickly get a decent salad or soup with predictable quality, and not a bad one. And being a large network I can find it practically anywhere.
Soups and salads in other common eateries, like diners etc are usually awful.
It’s more about how it started as a sort of anti-McDonalds and it’s becoming more and more soulless corporate. No more couches and armchairs, no more bread baked fresh in the restaurant…
Oh, did they stop baking bread fresh in the restaurant in order to circumvent the California minimum wage increase that was going to exclude them?
The article says they now ship frozen bread which is baked locally.
This is in contrast to what used to be mixed on site. Like an actual bakery.
Now it’s a fresh as subway, which also distributes frozen dough that is baked on site.
Subway also used to mix and bake on site…
I worked at Subway in 1993, frozen tubes of bread dough we would pop in the oven. although I do remember my manager one day making a giant braided bread out of fresh dough.
It’s about saving money, but they didn’t say what prompted it other than corporate mergers.
Wait, fresh baked bread is what made them exempt from California minimum wage laws.
How?
I stand corrected. Looks like they cleared up the exemption for businesses that bake bread for sale on premises.
https://abc7news.com/panera-bread-california-minimum-wage-newsom/14496645/
Good to hear.