American restaurant chain specializing in soups, salads and sandwiches
Panera Bread
Panera Bread in The Villages, Florida
Company type
Private
Industry
Café
Coffee Shop
Bakery
Genre
Fast Food
Founded
St. Louis Bread Co.: 1987; 37 years ago (1987) Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S. Panera Bread: 1998; 26 years ago (1998) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Founder
St. Louis Bread Company: Ken Rosenthal and Linda Rosenthal Panera Bread: Louis Kane and Ronald M. Shaich
Headquarters
Fenton, Missouri
Number of locations
Panera Bread: 1,902
St. Louis Bread Co.: 100
Area served
United States Canada
Key people
Ronald M. Shaich – founder and chairman[1][2] Ken Rosenthal – founder of The St. Louis Bread Company Jose Duenas – CEO[1] (2023–present) Charles J. Chapman, III – executive VP and COO[1] Sue Morelli – president of Au Bon Pain[1]
Products
Bakery-café serving several varieties of bread –
bagels
baguettes
cold sandwiches
hot panini
salads
soups
coffee
teas
Revenue
US$5.795 billion (2022)[3]
Net income
US$145 million (2016)
Total assets
US$1.301 billion (2016)
Total equity
US$288 million (2016)
Number of employees
About 140,000[4]
Parent
JAB Holding Company
Subsidiaries
Paradise Bakery & Café
Website
panerabread.com
Footnotes / references [5]
Headquarters in Sunset Hills, MissouriPanera Bread in the Chicago Loop in 2006An employee places a bagel in a slicer at a Panera Bread in Cleveland, Tennessee.Panera delivery vehiclePanera Bread in Canada
Panera Bread is an American chain store of bakery-café fast food restaurants with over 2,000 locations, all of which are in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri. The chain operates as Saint Louis Bread Company in the Greater St. Louis area, where it has over 100 locations.[6]
Panera offers a wide array of pastries and baked goods, such as bagels, brownies, cookies, croissants, muffins, and scones. These, along with Panera's artisan breads, are typically baked the day before by an on-staff baker. Aside from the bakery section, Panera has a regular menu for dine-in or takeout including flatbreads, pizzas, warm grain bowls, panini, pasta, salads, sandwiches, side choices, and soups, as well as coffee, espresso drinks, frozen drinks, fruit smoothies, hot chocolate, iced drinks, lattes, lemonade, and tea.[7][8]
Until 1999 and again from 2017 to 2021, the company also owned Au Bon Pain.[9] Panera Bread is itself owned by JAB Holding Company, which is, in turn, owned by the Reimann family of Germany.[10] Panera was once the largest provider of free Wi-Fi hotspots in the United States.[11]
^"Panera Bread Software Purchases and Digital Transformation Initiatives". Apps Run the World. May 8, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
^"Panera Bread Company 2016 Form 10-K Annual Report". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
^"Panera tests $16.99 lobster sandwich". American City Business Journals. August 18, 2009.
^"Your Favorite Summer Salad is Back at Panera Bread". Taste of Home. May 18, 2018.
^"Turkey and Cranberry: A Classic Combination". Panera Bread.
^Lucas, Amelia (June 30, 2021). "7-Eleven and Yum Brands franchisee buys bakery-cafe chain Au Bon Pain". CNBC. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
^Cite error: The named reference wsj-shaich was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"5 Things You Didn't Know About the Panera Bread Chain". The Huffington Post. April 29, 2014.
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US$5.795 billion (2022)[3]
US$145 million (2016)
