Panera Bread - Ventura

Panera has amazing food! Sheila and the Ventura Panera helped us throw a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society I love a company that does a great job at what it does and ALSO has a soul that supports and loves it's local community! I can't say enough good things about this place!

I usually don't eat here but tonight I tried one of their pizzas. it was good. Sausage pepperoni. Yum. Coupled with a big drink and some friends and it was a great time. They were baking cookies and I asked if I could have a warm one but they said no because of liability; you know, getting burned holding or eating a hot cookie. Darn, I wanted one so bad. Oh well. I'm not happy with their service though. One time they brought me the wrong meal and I'm surprised because I had a number on my table said which one to bring me. And another time I ordered just a drink in 30 minutes later it wasn't ready. I went back up to the counter and they have totally forgotten about it or lost the order somewhere.

I use to love panera but it’s like they love to F$ up there food and then where as back in the day the employees and managers would do whatever they could to make you happy and go that extra mile and now it’s like, actually it’s not (like) no they don’t give a damn about you or the way there food is or what you think and now their managers are even kids who couldn’t give a damn!! And like I was saying they use to have good actually awesome breakfast sandwiches and have slowly done everything they could do make them HORRIBLE I use to literally go here all the time but this was my first time back since getting back home to Cali and I was really looking forward to it but once again they made there breakfast sandwiches even worse by not even letting you have the choice to get over easy or scrambled now it’s only scrambled and it’s it’s disgusting it’s like going to McDonald’s but paying WAY more and yes they raised the prices as well as they should call these sandwiches finger food because they have become HALF the size as to what they used to be! So just like everything they just don’t give a damn about customers and it’s sad that this is happening and that homeless can steal anything and people can’t do anything and where once stores cared about there customers now they couldn’t careless, I mean when I was explaining myself to the manager he seriously laughed. Panera I will never eat at your place again, your now like so many other places who just don’t give a damn. It’s a really sad time that we live in!

I'm normally in a hurry so I just get take out but it looks like a cool place to chill and eat. Anyway they always have my food ready, exactly how I ordered it.

Great place. Just went. Very nice. Food is pretty normal but yummy. Service was nice and friendly too.