Company type | Private |
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Industry | |
Genre | Fast casual |
Founded | St. Louis Bread Co.: 1987 Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S. Panera Bread: 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, United States |
Number of locations |
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Area served | |
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 – |
Revenue | US$6.456 billion (2023)[3] |
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 |
Footnotes / references [5] |
Panera Bread is an American chain of bakery-café fast casual 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]
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