Panera Bread

Most nasty tasting sodas! What ever is in the carbonation makes any choice taste terrible. I’ve tried numerous times and yet the same.
Over priced to me for quality. Soup arrives cold generally.
The breads and desserts are good.
Not impressed nor one I choose to go to unless someone else wants it.

not the best. I just wish there were more locations in Merced. This place would be perfect if they didn’t mess up the order 60% of the time.

Panera Bread: great tasting, extremely overpriced food. The Starbucks of soup and sandwich joints. Pass.

Great place to stop by to grab a quick meal. Special mention goes to front desk staff Kevin, never experienced such courteous customer service in a long while. Hats off to the staff. Very well managed.

I usually frequent panera 3 – 4 times a week. Honestly I have never had problems until recently. My last three visits have been horrible, and I think it is time to give up on them. I always order the same thing. A bowl of broccoli cheddar soup, with a dinner roll…(the baguettes are too hard), a Pepsi and a cinnamon roll. Well last night, I decided I was going to treat myself to a few more items. I pull up to the drive-​thru, where a man says «welcome to panera, order when your ready.» immediately I start my usual order… to which I waited at least a minute and a half to hear him say…“what was that?” So I have to repeat myself. ANNOYING! So after he gets my usual order down I ask for a 4 pack of dinner rolls… he says let me see if we have any… takes him literally 2 minutes to check. They are out, but he says I have 1. Okay I will take it. Can I get a cinnamon roll? Again he says he needs to check if they have any. another minute wait, but they do. Okay can I have a brownie? He replies «we are out». Geez, I feel like asking what do you have, so I do not have to repeatedly order things you are out of! Can I have a bag of choclate chipper cookies? He again replies with an annoying ass repeat of «let me check if we have any». So I complete my order. and am at the, drive thru for an extended period of time. For such a small, easy amount of food, that’s ridiculous. Finally I got my soda, and bag and he almost forgets to give me my bag of cookies. I’m really irritated at this point, but I’m starving so I drive home.
When I arrive I start ynbagging my treasures to see that NO DINNER ROLL IS IN THE BAG. And because I substituted the dinner roll for the baguette, I am totally shit out of luck, as I wish a painful hang nail upon him… I open my soup and dig in. It’s half assed warm. And tastes old. I try to spoon a couple more bites in, but this is not edible. I’m really mad now. So I throw away my soup. Which is like throwing away my money. and say I at least have my cinnamon roll. I pull a piece off and shove it in my mouth and guess what? Starting to get hard! Not a soft cinnamon roll, a I’VE BEEN THERE ALL DAY CINNAMON ROLL. I am PISSED now and feel like driving all the way back. But I’m exhausted. Panera’s service is getting horrible. Food is too. I suggest you pick another spot. Or just walk to the toilet and throw 20.00 down it and flush. Cause that is basically what happened here. Dissatisfied

Expensive! My wife wanted me to try this place. I usually go to different sandwich places. So she gets a small sandwich and bowl of soup
That with a bag of chips and cinnamon roll over $ 18. Crazy. Sandwich tastes good buy it’s all bread.
It seems like they’re trying to be to high class.
Not my kind of food and I won’t be back.
Tasted good but not worth it at all.

Not a place to go to if you are looking to get filled up. Overpriced fuffy food. Went twice. Thought it might of been a fluke. These people have no clue on how to make a sandwich. Both times there is an inch of bread on the outside perimeter of the sandwich. Asked them about it and was told that’s the way it is. Wrote their corporate website and they weren’t happy. They sent me a $ 10 gift card. Think I will spend it in Turlock.

I used to like Panera, the one in Merced is horrible. Friendly staff and great customer service! But the food has become so mediocre.

Make sure you set aside an entire hour just to wait on the drive thru. They take forever

I love how I can order online and they will have my order ready at the drive through. Sometimes it still takes a while to get my order due to the long line. One out of my three online orders was done incorrectly, hence the missing star, otherwise my experience has been great. Bagels and spreads are great. Love the scones! Staff members are friendly and the place is very clean.

It’s Panera, you know what you’re going to get with the food. Everywhere has the same menu, for the same (overpriced – but yummy) food.
This location however, is on a corner right next to Chipotle. They have fast service and clean bathrooms. Great pit stop if you’re driving in, or out of Merced.

I eat here every chance I get! I love their salads and it’s easy to keep track of my points for Weight watchers! The staff is always so friendly and the place is extremely clean!

Always messes up my order. Cold soup. Crappy coffee. Always out of dinner rolls. Most of the staff is inexperienced.

The night before last my husband and I had Panera for the first time, I want to say it was delicious, we ordered the Soba Noodles w/​Chicken (amazing). I also enjoyed the bar-​b-​q chicken sandwich! Everything was affordable and good! I also want to give a SHOUT OUT and Thumbs up to the Manager RYAN! Great Customer Service, friendly and threw in a free cookie with my order! I highly recommend this spot to everyone! Funny thing is I made my Husband a Panera Believer! lol Thanks again Ryan!

Pricey but worthy! I love their cheddar brocolli soup when it’s the temperature it’s suppose to be at! Turkey bacon bravo sand which is also delicious and fresh every time. My favorite salad is sesame chicken! Good food overall!

Panera in Merced is Terrible! I was so excited to have a place to stop at on the way to school. Ever since they opened and even now, they are always out of the things I try to order. Ordering the simplest plain bagel and cream cheese, they seem to never have. They hardly ever remember to put the cream cheese and knife in the bag. Then they up charge you for another kind of bagel if they don’t have it. Chai teas are never available, sugar cookies, smoothies you name it they never have it. They can’t even give you your total when you go through the drive thru, it’s once you reach the window they tell you. The girls that work the drive thru are rude and very short mannered. They don’t try to fix any situation and when asked to speak to manager, they ask why. I’ve given them plenty of shots and I’m done. I much rather go spend a few extra bucks and go to Bagel Time.

Great food, clean environment, and great service as usual always conducive for family and kids. The Internet is always weak and slow so you’d better have a phone or tablet to use as a «personal hotspot» along with a good cellular plan.

This place is delicious, especially their cream of chicken and wild rice soup as well as their baguette mmmmmmmm
They have the great feature of a drive-​thru which I love. It’s a large one too, I was able to pull through while towing a car on a car trailer. Thumbs up from me!

Usually, I really like Panera but tonight I was very disappointed. My Frontega Chicken Sandwich was burnt. I don’t mean a little toasty, I mean black on the bottom burned.
When you combine that with their higher than average prices and recent dinner roll replacement of their baguettes, I’m starting to question future visits to this location and this business.
Check out a pic of my burnt food in the photos.

Very nice people and of course great food
I like the bagels but Safeway has WAY better ones for a fraction the price too