Panera Bread

A good and clean Panera. They’re on top of their game and get thru the lunch lines pretty well. The broccoli cheddar soup is still a favorite after all these years and the holiday sugar cookies are way understated, I love them.

Good Panera, I come here to study. I wish the Wifi was faster because I cannot load online lectures here. The food and service is always quick. It is very clean.

You pick two mac and cheese with Caesar salad is my favorite. I love this place.

Cutting a little bit of slack because it’s Father’s Day. There was clearly no supervisor on duty here today, it would appear that a number of teenagers (or possibly just adults in their first job) were working here today. While the line kept building, 2 cashiers were seen counting money on the back counter, neither of whom acknowledged the guests at the cash register 5 feet from them. To top it off when they stopped counting money, one of the cashiers heads down to a totally different register thus breaking the line that’s already formed into confusion. It’s unfortunate that the owner/​management set up the employees for failure without proper staffing or supervision. On the plus side the food was hot and on par with the other Panera locations.

Great spot. Love this place, the food stands for something great. You can trust it and you know you will have food that’s good for you.
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Best Panera around! Try cobblestone which is large enough to share! The power breakfast sandwich is amazing & a healthy breakfast alternative! Keeps you energized until mid afternoon. Add a café latte & you’re ready to go! Clean restrooms & friendly staff as well! Cobb salad avocado is wonderful. Can get both chicken or vegetarian & extra avocado. DELISH! The turkey bravo sandwich is always a popular choice. You can’t go wrong. For .99 you can add dessert to your entrée. Enjoy

I came close to giving this location 1 star. I just don’t have it me, to do that though. Hopefully the Plainville locations will read this, and take notice I notice there have not been reviews on this location in quite some time. I have been to this location several times in the last few months. Mainly because there is a lack of places to eat in the area. This is what I have noticed. There is a constant need to hire new employees at this restaurant. The order itself. Ordered Pasta with chicken. Got the Pasta no chicken. I just wanted a cup of water. no cups, the water is hooked up to the fruit punch machine and constantly adds some punch to the water. This has been several times now this has happened. The food is way overpriced yet the service is terrible here. What exactly is going on. Order is wrong, no one seems to care. This has happened on several meals just in the last month. Something is wrong at Plainville to say the least.

The cashiers were making fun of my friend’s appearance in front of me, not knowing that we were together. So immature, unprofessional, and unnecessary. Otherwise, just the same as any other Panera.

I was in Wrentham this past weekend and found myself at this Panera for a quick bite after shopping at the outlets.
The food is typical. It’s a tad overpriced, but tastes good. I like that they tell you the calorie count in the sandwiches right on the menu so you can make an informed decision. Sandwiches are a little sloppy sometimes. My soup was watery, but I really should have known better than to get french onion soup at Panera.
This particular Panera has a cute little patio area with flower boxes and umbrellas. You almost don’t realize you are in the middle of a parking lot. Either way, it was nice to catch some rays with my overpriced strawberry smoothie!

Start building an Ark. When God finds out about this disgrace of a restaurant, another flood is sure to strike. My lovely date ordered the fire roasted vegetable sandwich. Apparently the fire was out on this particular night as the vegetables were raw like Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The sandwich was pathetically equipped with a piece of lettuce, slice of tomato, slice of cucumber and a heap of onions. You’d have to eat 15 of these sandwiches to be full. What a colossal mess with veggies spilling out all over the place, not that you’d want to eat them even if constructed properly.
I ordered the Asian sesame seed chicken salad. I counted the sesame seeds. Not because I’m like Rain Man, but because there was only one sesame seed. Here is the full list of ingredients: romaine lettuce, caesar-​like dressing, and one (1) sesame seed. A bottle of soy sauce is more Asian than this salad.
The staff is grumpy and frumpy at best.
I recommend this establishment only if you want to have a Heart of Darkness moment and think to yourself, «The horror! The horror!»

I don’t normally rate chain restaurants unless I am extremely pleased with the overall experience. Friendly customer service with a smile. The customer service rep assisting us, spoke clearly with a smile and actually made eye contact!
The staff, including management, were cleaning and keeping the staff motivated, everyone seemed happy to be working this morning. I was happy to their customer.
The food was fresh, hot and delicious. I had a Asiago Breakfast sandwich (Asiago Bread, egg (my favorite!) cheese and bacon. We also had to have a cobblestone for «breakfast-​dessert» :D If you like Monkey Bread, you will LOVE the cobblestone. It looked like a muffin, but pulled apart like monkey bread. Had cinnamon, sugar and raisins, with chunks of apple, topped with savory streusel and light drizzle of icing and NO NUTS! Hooray!
I love the fact they have calorie (estimates I am sure) next to some items on the menu board. The dining area was clean and felt more like a café/​lounge, very comfortable. The restrooms were clean (a HUGE plus for me).
I will definitely return!

The bagels are always fresh and delicious. This particular Panera is always clean, has friendly staff, is relatively large, and has outdoor seating in the good weather. In my opinion Panera’s menu is good anyway but if the location isn’t clean it doesn’t matter what the menu is. I pick up a bakers dozen box of bagels at least once a month for my house. :)

I have been to this Panera many times for both breakfast and dinner and the service and food are consistently good. My favorite on the menu is probably their Napa Almond Chicken Salad sandwich. It’s lower on the calorie spectrum than most of their sandwiches and still tastes awesome! :)
My boyfriend and I went here for a quick bite again tonight just as it was getting busy. I had the You Pick Two with the Strawberry Poppyseed Salad and the Napa Almond Chicken Salad sandwich. My only complaint would be that I requested the salad without chicken; when the waitress repeated the order back to us, I reiterated that I had asked for the salad with no chicken and she said that she would put that in for me. A couple of minutes later, our food came up and my salad had chicken in it. Since it was just starting to get busy and I could easily take it off the salad myself, I didn’t really see any point in mentioning it to the cooks, but I do wish they had been more observant.
Their pastries… are alright, I guess. There’s nothing to really knock your socks off. But hey, it’s a Panera, they specialize in the bread!
Also, one of the guys who works here, named Ruben, is the best. He makes conversation with us whenever we come in as well as with the other customers, while doing his job (usually he’s cleaning some portion of the dining room or restocking the coffee station). His friendliness alone is one of the reasons I choose this Panera over the one in North Attleboro.

Chaos sums it up. While in the area for work this week I had the opportunity to eat at this Panera twice — mainly because there isn’t anything else all that appealing in the area. That being said, I can understand why this place is psychotic. Both times there were lots of people waiting pretty lengthy periods of time to get their food. Also, many orders were screwed up. It was interesting to stand there and observe as order after order came back because something was missing, wrong, etc. Sigh.
My food was what you would expect. The bacon was gross so that had to be removed. Totally undercooked and super fatty — ick! The yogurt parfait rocked my world.
Giving it 3 stars though because there really isn’t anything else in the area so yeah, just gotta deal with what there is. I am thinking I need to open a franchise of some sort to give the Panera a little competition.

Literally one of the best experiences I’ve had in a while. So, it was a rainy Friday night — the shop was busy, with lines of people waiting for their food (a lot of teenage girls being loud…) and to be rung up.
The store’s register system was down — meaning they could take cash transactions easily, but credit/​debit cards had to be rung through manually (with the old fashioned swipe machine) — could’ve been a recipe for disaster. However, the 2 cashiers working were so friendly and upbeat that the customers didn’t feel the stress of the situation. Kudos to them for keeping their cool and keeping everyone moving — I will be back!

I had a really nice lunch here.
Packed on a Saturday afternoon. But it was fine. Hardly any wait in line — the dining room was full. Lotta people taking up space just screwing around on their laptops. Do they take that into consideration when they design these places with free wi-​fi? Most of them aren’t customers. Leeches!!!
But we got sandwich-​soup combos. I really liked mine — turkey sandwich thing. I don’t know — it was just nice — had herbed mayo on it that won me over. Soup was too salty — most of these places over-​do it with the salt BUT I still liked it.
Free refils on drinks — can’t beat that with a stick and call it Sally! I just made that up. You can use if if you want.

Food? Very tasty. Loved the broccoli and cheddar soup and the sandwiches (asiago roast beef, turkey). Coffee was the usual, fresh and strong and a very good complement to the sandwiches. Neither of us were filled before heading to the cinema for our second movie of the day — it was a great interlude between films, and a lot cheaper than what we would have found at Patriot Place. Service was fine — the kids who were preparing the food moved along efficiently and were polite.
However…we were both a bit surprised by the behavior of one of the managers on duty. Although the restaurant was starting to get a bit busy (we went late in the afternoon) he was barking at them and ordering them around like a bunch of Marine recruits in basic training. Seriously, the food was good, the service was relatively quick but the constant yammering on the part of the manager cast a bit of a dark cloud over the whole experience and lost this place a star — and almost lost it two. Hey, cut the kids some slack. They’re just kids… and they’re doing OK.

Hmmm, 3 or 4? Think I’ll split this review.
Restaurant: Food is decent but methinks it a little overpriced. The main draw of panera is, of course, the bread. The trouble with this is that the other ingredients to their sandwhiches are just okay. Nothing really stands out as spectacular. It’s all decent, but not great. 3 stars
Bakery: Mmm, bread. Eat the bread. Buy a pastry. 4 stars. I’ll even be generous and round up the resulting score.

Panera snapshot 1÷14÷08:
Right now I am sitting at this Panera, sucking up the free wireless, getting some work done and messaging with a couple people on Unilocal while I have my lunch. With no power at my office and Panera dead due to the storm, I have set-​up a mobile office here-​I have scrubbed spreadsheets and had a conference call over the last little while.
One of the things that gets me to Panera occasionally, besides the free wireless, is the constantly changing menu and fairly consistent quality and service. A successful combo.
Convenient place to lunch and work for those of us «out in the field» a lot.