Panera Bread

Always love Panera!

Paid $10 at lunch on 2/28/2024 for the Bacon Avocado Melt. Way too much for this sandwich. Mostly bread, a small amount of bacon, plenty of onion, a few thin slices of avocado. A complete disappointment and cannot recommend this sandwich, or location, to anyone.

Everything is awesome about Panera though at a premium price.

We rarely eat at Panera because, although the food is tasty, it is not a good value. More proof of that with our first try of their onion soup in a bread bowl. Ordered to go, we did not see it until we got home: one cup (barely 8 oz.) of soup for a bread bowl too large for that small amount of soup, but hollowed out to perfectly fit 8 oz. Panera offers the soup in three versions: cup, bowl, and bread bowl. The cup is 8 oz. For $6.79. The bread bowl is 8 oz. for $9.19. But 8 oz. of soup is too small for that large amount of bread (plus the free baguette), the cheese was almost nonexistent (I think it was six short strands of shredded cheese), and $9.19 is too much for bread soaked in onion soup.

I ordered the chipotle chicken avocado melt from Panera today and got about a bite of chicken on each side of the sandwich. The cost of this sandwich is 12.19 before taxes which is absolutely ridiculous for the quality and quantity of the food. Ive included images of the sandwich i received. The other side has similar proportions of each ingredient. I went back and asked if this was a normal amount of chicken for the sandwich and one of the workers rather than responding to the question asked if id like her to remake it. I then just asked again if its normal and she responded the same way. I then said yes remake it and she told her cooks “one chipotle chicken avocado melt with more chicken than normal” which kind of implies this is just how they make their sandwiches. The second sand which was much better with the amount of chicken but still not a great experience. I wouldn’t recommend coming here for sandwiches as least as places like McAllisters or potbelly will give you much better portions of food for your money.