Panera Bread

I think you get an amazing value for your dollar here. Clean, creative and cozy atmosphere.

ordered a greek chicken salad. guess what? no chicken on my salad. didn’t get any help from the manager either.

It pained me when I saw a billboard that claimed Panera Bread as Youngstown’s best restaurant. It’s not a real restaurant, it’s a chain, and I just don’t understand why this place is worshipped by NE Ohio.
I ordered a turkey and cheese breakfast panini. The idea was there but it was soggy and pretty gross. I ordered a coffee as their hazelnut coffee is pretty good. I started pouring a cup and noticed that it was full of grounds. I waited for a few minutes before I had to shout for someone’s attention behind the counter. The ridiculous part here is that there was a manager five feet from me and she amazingly ignored me. She was unsympathetic that the coffee was full of grounds, borderline rude. She just snottily told me that the grounds were so fine that it happened. So if it happens wouldn’t you make sure that full cup of coffee full of grounds has already been poured out? Just a suggestion, Parena, just a suggestion. Please don’t act like I should have known that as I am not your employee.
I can’t pretend that I’ve never had anything there that I really liked but the thing is it all gets boring and overall is just mediocre.

Super fast and everything was prepared perfectly!

Not a bad place for lunch or coffee.