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Panera Bread

Panera Bread Company is an American multinational chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants with over 2,000 locations, all of which are in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters... Wikipedia

• Type:  Private
• Traded as:  NASDAQ: PNRA (until 2017)
• 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, 2,078, St. Louis Bread Co, 100, Total, 2,178
• Area served:  United States, Canada
• 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 –, bagels, baguettes, cold sandwiches, hot panini, salads, soups, coffee, teas
• Revenue:  US$6.456 billion (2023)
• Total assets:  US$1.301 billion (2016)
• Total equity:  US$288 million (2016)
• Number of employees:  About 140,000
• Parent:  JAB Holding Company
• Website:  panerabread.com
• Data Source:  DuckDuckGo