Panera Bread
Panera Bread Company is an American chain store of bakery-café fast casual restaurants with over 2,000 locations, all of which are in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters... Wikipedia
- Type: Private
- Industry: Café, Coffee Shop, Bakery
- 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
- Number of locations: Panera Bread, 1,902, St. Louis Bread Co, 100
- Area served: United States Canada
- Key people: Ronald M. Shaich – founder and chairman Ken Rosenthal – founder of The St. Louis Bread Company Niren Chaudhary – CEO (2019–present) Charles J. Chapman, III – executive VP and COO Sue Morelli – president of Au Bon Pain
- Products: Fast casual/Bakery-café serving several varieties of bread –, bagels, baguettes, cold sandwiches, hot panini, salads, soups, coffee, teas
- Revenue: US$5.795 billion (2022)
- 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.com
- Data Source: DuckDuckGo