Panera Bread Central Florida Office

The Panera in Newberry Road in Gainesville FL is great! The coffee is better than Starbucks, the grounds are clean and well maintained and the employees are very friendly!
Add a few more flavored syrups like hazelnut and you will easily steal the filthy and slow Starbucks business down the street!

Thank you to Panera Headquarter for coordinating a Teachers Appreciation Week donation to Meadows Academy in Sanford, FL. Jennifer was wonderful to work with as she tried to work on donations. BTW, this is not my first time receiving a food donation or gift for a good cause from Panera. And, on my professional side, it has been a pleasure to work with Panera Headquarter too. KUDOS for giving back to our communities.

Bien

Lindo

10:00 a.m. Saturday and NO BAGELS!

I used to love Panera, when I was in ny and now Florida but lately the service has been terrible, I used to look forward to oct to get the breast cancer bagels but since the last few years they don’t make enough of them and should be able to go anytime of the day and get them, now they don’t make them only once a day and I went to the one on university blvd in Oviedo and the girls look at you like u are an alien. I used also get dinner or lunch and they don’t prepare properly.

We had not visited a Panera since our retirement in 2012. Not one close anymore. We stopped when we saw a sign while traveling, so excited! What a dissapointment for us both. Food was delicious but very expensive for the amount of food served. We left still hungry $25 later, not good on a fixed budget. Many of our favorite items were deleted from the menu and sandwich portion is half what it use to be. Won't be back.

This isn't the restaurant - it's just the executive officers for Panera Bread

Panera's in Central FL area are now refusing to substitute the Steak and White cheddar sandwich to French baguette bread and I was told the reasoning is because they now serve toasted french baguette sandwiches and need the bread for those. Called national corporate offices for Panera and was told I can substitute the bread on any sandwich for French Baguette at any time and they will be contacting the local district manager about this issue. Hey Central FL Panera, why don't you just make a few more loaves of French baguette since you give that out with every salad and soup anyway, and how many people are really going to come in on a daily basis and substitute a sandwich to French baguette? Instead of such a ridiculous new policy that limits customers of choices we have always had before you should be catering to your customers as the national corporate office expects you to. I left without ordering due to this new policy and gave Jason's Deli my business because let's face it Panera, you no longer serve my needs as a customer so why in the world would I spend my hard earned money at your establishment?