Panera Bread

Upon entering Panera Bread the smells of fresh hot baked breads right from the ovens and the freshest of danish and cinnamon rolls. Uniquely displayed and easily accessible. The menu consists of soups, salads fresh sandwiches with a variety of drinks.
Drive around window makes never getting out of your car a joy to visit with orders to go.
Be seeing you there.

I’ve always liked Panera Bread and this location is clean with a friendly staff. No complaints here. The food was fresh and delicious! I will be back!

For a chain restaurant, this is a great place for your morning coffee and my personal favorite — either the 4 cheese or spinach & artichoke egg soufflés (They have several kinds to pick from but come early — they go fast!) Lots of choices for gourmet bagels –which are sliced and toasted. Highly recommend the Cinnamon Crunch Bagel.
For lunches (even dinner), they offer a wide variety of sandwiches, soups, and salads. I know they even cater as I have been at many work meetings and had «box lunches» brought in with a ½ sandwich, chips, and cookie! My sandwich choice is the Italian Combo which has steak, turkey, ham, salami, swiss cheese, lettuce, and tomato.
All the Panera’s I have been to offer a comfy warm «home» feeling to sit and enjoy your meal. Lots of people come to read the morning paper or meet their friend for coffee. Offers free wi-​fi too.
Kinda pricy for food but the quality is really good.
The one thing I did find weird at this location is that if you go through the drive-​thru — all your food is «loose» in the bag. My husband’s bagel was sitting on top of my egg soufflé (not in a bag or protective container). Other locations typically have cute little boxes for the egg soufflé and they have a little sleeve the bagel goes in… This was like that several times so I know they just weren’t out of their boxes. Weird…(it was like a cheeseburger, not wrapped, and the fries, not in the sleeve, were tossed in the bag).

It is ok for a chain sandwich place. Ingredients do not seem very fresh, and I don’t need another rewards card on my keychain.

If your looking for Low fat, low carbs and low stress then you’ll feel at home here at Panera. Seems odd to be at a place that has Bread in its name yet personally satisfying to not partake of the eating of bread in order to maintain the low carbs part. The veggie soup was the best part of my meal and only cost me 140 calories. The classic salad with chicken ran me a bit more (350 – 400 cal) and was just so-​so. It could be considered as good as any Bag salad with a low cal balsamic.

I’m a fan of Panera Bread, just not this location. Service at the front counter was horrible. The cashier never smiled :) she looked like she was mad at the world. Maybe those type of people need to be in the back.

Just got through eating for 1^st and last time here. If I hadn’t been starving I wouldn’t have been able to choke it down. My smoked turkey sandwich was so bland and the breads crust was as tough as shoe leather. The strawberry scone was so dry I only ate half and that’s saying something for me a sweet tooth that can’t resist pastries.

I never seek out Panera Bread as my first choice, typically end up here by blind chance, usually when a «mom» is among us.
But you know, I have never been served an item I didn’t like at Panera. I guess I am a fan after all!
They do a good job with everything; soups, sandwiches and desserts. Friendly attentive service at this location.
For what they do in the business model of the chain bakery, they are the best.

Finally a location in Jonesboro!
The atmosphere is about what you’d expect from a bakery café, which means it’s right up my alley. I like the spots by the fireplace or the windows best. The black bean soup is some of the best in town, and the Mediterranean salmon salad was AWESOME. The bread, scones, & bagels are all amazing. This place is simply a great bakery. As the previous reviewer mentioned, if you order an entrée & a drink, you get a bakery case item for 99 cents. Anything in there, including the scones which are about $ 3 – 4 each!
The shortbread cookies are worthy of their own paragraph. You find them in the bakery case; big, thick rectangular cookies with a diamond pattern on top. As my husband said, «You don’t so much chew it as experience it.» They disintegrate into buttery goodness as soon as you take a bite, leaving that incredible salty sweet balance that you can only get from a good shortbread. They go AMAZINGLY well with a cup of the British Breakfast tea.
Speaking of which: stick with the tea & avoid the coffee. I’m a bit of a coffee snob, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t have to be a snob to notice the coffee always tastes a bit burnt. Definitely stick with the tea: they use Republic of Tea & have 8 different flavors (including 2 herbals & a decaf!).