Panera Bread

Typical Panera (I think every panera has the same food)…the restaurant itself is fairly large and clean. The staff is friendly also.

Always a great affordable selection with friendly consistent customer service to boot. Pastries much better than the ones from local bakeries. Egg soufflés and scones to die for. No need for another bakery in Hampton Bays.

The food was OK, but I’d rather go to Subway or Starbucks, which have better food and a variety of choices to choose from.

I’m a Panera fan and have visited many locations. This was my first and last time visiting this store. Not only was the young lady at the counter incredibly rude (Kristin), but after taking our cash she handled our baked goods and made a latte without washing her hands or putting on gloves.

good breakfast sandwiches and coffee. lunch is ok.

After reading the reviews on this particular Panera Bread location, I totally disagree. The food is consistently good, and the service as well. I stop in here often for soup and half a sandwich all the time. Love the black bean soup and the frontega chicken panini. I also love the tomato basil bread loaf. This place is consistent, good food and always very clean. Staff is always smiling when ever I visit. Love Panera Bread !

Foods always great and fresh. No complaints here

Place was OK, I had a turkey panini with 3 cheese and bacon, little sloppy and hardly any turkey. Also had clam chowder soup very watery, no flavor. And for dessert I had a carrot muffin and it was stale, frosting was hard as a rock. I guess it’s hit or miss with this panera.

I used to enjoy Panera. The coffee is ok. It’s a good place to pick up bread and have it sliced to go. Lunch sandwiches are not that good anymore. Especially anything with chicken in it etc… They once opened up a small packet of bits of chicken and sprinkled a few morsels on a sandwhich. it was creepy and weird to be part of that business approach — it was not inspiring.
I would rather go to a local deli that roasts their own turkey and have it sliced on my favorite croissant or bread etc. with favorite topping.
Not a Panera fan — except for a few things such as the onion soup inside a sourdough bread roll hallowed out. but I grew tired of it.

The food is rather good, in line with every other Panera. Their staff is satisfactorily competent at pressing buttons and ladling out soup. The fact that I’ve never found any evidence of hair or bodily fluids in the food is the sole reason I’m rating them so high.
However, if you’re the type of person who likes to order food and then receive exactly what you ordered, I suggest you skip this place and dine elsewhere. Ever since this location opened, I can count on one hand the number of orders they’ve gotten right the first time.

Surprisingly my first visit to this particular Panera didn’t occur ’til Independence Day ’11, when an über-​friendly and super-​efficient woman served up a tasty but greasy jalapeño-​cheddar bagel egg sandwich to sop up some lingering spirits consumed a few steps down Montauk Hwy on the previous evening. GBA.

I have always liked Panera Bread and have probably been to about 8 locations of this franchise over the years. All of those would have warranted 3 stars for being decent, clean, quick and affordable while never overwhelming. This particular location seemed to draw my ire on multiple occasions in one trip — not a good sign.
Gripe 1 — Please name one place in the ENTIRE WORLD that has a kids meal that does not come with a drink… waiting…waiting. You probably can’t think of one because that would be absolutely ludicrous, right? Apparently not at Panera Bread where the kids meal comes with the meal and a side… and no drink. Most people unknowingly order the drink separately, but it is not included.
Gripe 2 — If you don’t like your job at Panera or feel the lunch rush is too much, go work somewhere else. When you deliver a sandwich with the bread not even on top, but smushed on the side, exposing the entire contents of the sandwich, you have taken no care to even try to make this sandwich look put together. No, this was not an open face sandwich, it was a Cuban — of all sandwiches, a Cuban should be pressed together not with the top of the bread barely covering the ham.
Gripe 3 — When you get an order for a kids meal — turkey, cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo and you only go 2 for 5 (40%), you suck. I had to check the receipt to make sure I ordered it correctly and I did. There was bread, turkey and cheese slapped together in possibly the most inedible fashion with none of the requested condiments. When I brought it back, it was fixed, but grudgingly as if I was being a pain.
It’s not that hard to just make it ok at a fast casual place, but this Panera could not even do that.