Panera Bread
Panera Bread in The Villages, Florida | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | |
| Genre | Fast casual |
| Founded | St. Louis Bread Co.: 1987 Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S. Panera Bread: 1997 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Founder | St. Louis Bread Company: Ken Rosenthal and Linda Rosenthal Panera Bread: Louis Kane and Ronald M. Shaich |
| Headquarters | Fenton, Missouri, United States |
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Key people | Ronald M. Shaich – founder and chairman Ken Rosenthal – founder of The St. Louis Bread Company Paul Carbone – CEO (2025–present) Charles J. Chapman, III – executive VP and COO Sue Morelli – president of Au Bon Pain |
| Products | Bakery-café serving several varieties of bread – |
| Revenue | US$6.456 billion (2023) |
| US$145 million (2016) | |
| Total assets | US$1.301 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$288 million (2016) |
Number of employees | About 140,000 |
| Parent | JAB Holding Company |
| Subsidiaries | Paradise Bakery & Café |
| Website | panerabread |
| Footnotes / references | |
Panera Bread is an American multinational chain of bakery-café fast casual restaurants with over 2,000 locations, all of which are in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Fenton, Missouri. The chain operates as Saint Louis Bread Company in the Greater St. Louis area, with over 100 locations.
Panera offers a wide array of pastries and baked goods, such as bagels, brownies, cookies, croissants, muffins, and scones. These, along with Panera's artisan breads, are typically baked by an on-staff baker the day before. Aside from the bakery section, Panera has a regular menu for dine-in or takeout including flatbreads, pizzas, warm grain bowls, panini, pasta, salads, sandwiches, side choices, and soups, as well as coffee, espresso drinks, frozen drinks, fruit smoothies, hot chocolate, iced drinks, lattes, lemonade, and tea.
Panera Bread, formerly owned by Au Bon Pain, is currently owned by JAB Holding Company, which is, in turn, owned by the Reimann family of Germany. Panera was once the largest provider of free Wi-Fi hotspots in the United States.