Panera Bread

I had the new roast beef dipper... amazing!! This is an item that's only out for a limited time, so if you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend you do before it's no longer on the menu. Fantastic!

They have the best soups and sandwiches. They have pizza and soup. The service is always good. Never had a problem with orders. You can order online, kiosk. Nice dining area. Choice of bread, apple, or chips with a combo of sandwich and soup for pick 2. Also with the pizza 🍕

Great food like all other locations, but the staff in here are great. I have ordered avocado chicken sandwich was great and coffee was also great. I have ordered several items here several times, every time it was consistent and tastes amazing.

Staff members were really helpful and kind. I particularly loved the French bread in a dish with their soup (broccoli with cheddar cheese). They had delicious cookies and pastries. Additionally, the tea is superb ( old fashion English kind ). The nicest aspect is that they don't offer alcohol, which makes it a lovely urban area to enjoy a meal with family. Definitely returning more frequently. adored it

Omg, what a great place to get lunch. And the drinks? Don't get me started on how great the Sip Club is! For a place that sells sandwiches, they certainly know how to sandwich great food, service, and healthy options into one delicious destination. Next time I'm hungry, you know where I'll be! And next time you need to get away from the office, you know where to go! 😉🥪🍲🥗😍

I must say this has to be the best Panera Bread location in city the whole staff is friendly and the food is always delicious. I would definitely like to thank Heghine the moment I approached the register she remembered my whole order. She deserves a raise she’s a super valuable team member :)

My trip to this Panera was awkward at first because everyone just stared at me. Then Oscar asked me if I needed help and went out of his way to help me. This review would have been different. Thanks 🙏

Staff was very friendly and kind. I extremely enjoyed their soup ( broccoli with cheddar cheese ) especially the French bread in a bowl so good. Their cookies and pastries tasted mouthwatering. Furthermore, the tea is incredible ( old fashion English kind ). Beautiful urban zone to sit down with family, best part they don’t sell alcohol so very satisfying with families and children. Definitely coming here more often. Loved it.

Super tasty especially the flatbread pizza! One of the best menu additions in years. This particular location is quite large with indoor and outdoor seating areas. Convenient location as well as plentiful parking. They have a lot of self order kiosks and the counter people are quick to help too. The online ordering is also helpful since you can walk in, grab your bag and walk out. The drink choices are more than just soda, they have tea and juice as well. And water cups. Pictured here is the chipotle chicken and bacon pizza 😋😋

Have you tried the new Flatbread pizza??? OMG...this is the BEST tasting pizza I have ever had! Seriously. I have had to rethink my relationship with Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Round Table...REAL mozzarella and pepperoni...BEST tasting pizza sauce..😩😩😩

This is for the location on Zinfandel in Rancho Cordova. Accessible location with ample parking outdoor and indoor seating. Staff are curteous and friendly. Props to the employee who helped us with a problem, though I don't know his name, one can immediately see a good example of a good client server. The food is good but we thought on the pricey side for the servings. We tried a variety of pastries, sandwiches, soup, coffee and tea and enjoyed them all. We would eat here again. For a coffee drinker there club offer on coffee is a good deal.

S.A

Staff was very friendly and kind. I extremely enjoyed their soup ( broccoli with cheddar cheese ) especially the French bread in a bowl so good. Their cookies and pastries tasted mouthwatering. Furthermore, the tea is incredible ( old fashion English kind ). Beautiful urban zone to sit down with family, best part they don’t sell alcohol so very satisfying with families and children. Definitely coming here more often. Loved it.

Yonkers Channel

This is for the location on Zinfandel in Rancho Cordova. Accessible location with ample parking outdoor and indoor seating. Staff are curteous and friendly. Props to the employee who helped us with a problem, though I don't know his name, one can immediately see a good example of a good client server. The food is good but we thought on the pricey side for the servings. We tried a variety of pastries, sandwiches, soup, coffee and tea and enjoyed them all. We would eat here again. For a coffee drinker there club offer on coffee is a good deal.

Shaun Edwards

Super tasty especially the flatbread pizza! One of the best menu additions in years. This particular location is quite large with indoor and outdoor seating areas. Convenient location as well as plentiful parking. They have a lot of self order kiosks and the counter people are quick to help too. The online ordering is also helpful since you can walk in, grab your bag and walk out. The drink choices are more than just soda, they have tea and juice as well. And water cups. Pictured here is the chipotle chicken and bacon pizza 😋😋

Hylifavrd

Have you tried the new Flatbread pizza??? OMG...this is the BEST tasting pizza I have ever had! Seriously. I have had to rethink my relationship with Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Round Table...REAL mozzarella and pepperoni...BEST tasting pizza sauce..😩😩😩

I walked in at 7am after a brutal 12-hour shift. My feet hurt, my brain was fried, and I needed food that wouldn’t fight me. Panera didn’t just feed me — it gave me ten minutes of peace. A warm egg sandwich, soft light, and a quiet booth. It felt like being human again.

This Panera Bread location is one of my favorites! The customer service was fantastic—staff members greeted me with a smile and made sure I had everything I needed. I ordered the Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken and paired it with a warm baguette. The salad was fresh and crisp, with a delicious balance of sweet and tangy flavors. The ambiance was lovely, with lots of natural light, clean tables, and a relaxing vibe that made my meal even more enjoyable. Whether you're stopping by for a meal or a cup of coffee, this Panera is always a great option!

I ordered at the counter and the person taking my order got all three things wrong. However, the manager Jerry made it right with no complaints and even offered me a pastry as an extra. I appreciate Jerry's attention to customer service. It reminded me that I will likely order through the screens that are at the counter or through the mobile app. But hats off to Jerry. She did a great job making this right

Jeremy Fernandez

My trip to this Panera was awkward at first because everyone just stared at me. Then Oscar asked me if I needed help and went out of his way to help me. This review would have been different. Thanks 🙏

Nataly Born

I walked in at 7am after a brutal 12-hour shift. My feet hurt, my brain was fried, and I needed food that wouldn’t fight me. Panera didn’t just feed me — it gave me ten minutes of peace. A warm egg sandwich, soft light, and a quiet booth. It felt like being human again.

Kristina Barnes

Always fresh and the app makes it so easy and convenient to order and sit or order to go. Also, there is a drive-thru if you want to pick up and go without getting out the car.

Sophia Fundis

This Panera Bread location is one of my favorites! The customer service was fantastic—staff members greeted me with a smile and made sure I had everything I needed. I ordered the Fuji Apple Salad with Chicken and paired it with a warm baguette. The salad was fresh and crisp, with a delicious balance of sweet and tangy flavors. The ambiance was lovely, with lots of natural light, clean tables, and a relaxing vibe that made my meal even more enjoyable. Whether you're stopping by for a meal or a cup of coffee, this Panera is always a great option!

Delivery was very quick, soup was hot and delicious, but this was my steak and cheese half sandwich.

Croissant toast with ham was nice. Think the Mac and cheese meant that the order took longer. Ok place for a relatively quick bite. Order at till and updates on status of order on screen. They call out your name when ready and you collect food to bring to your table. Tables were not clean so had to wipe them down first.

I was really looking forward to enjoying a Hazelnut coffee, but I found out that the coffee machine was broken and only espresso drinks were available. I inquired about getting an Americano at the coffee price, but unfortunately, that request couldn’t be accommodated. While I appreciate the options they offered, I couldn't help but feel that the Americano didn't quite match the delightful experience I was expecting from the Hazelnut coffee, and I ended up paying a bit more for it. It might be helpful for future customers if they could consider temporary pricing adjustments when the usual offerings aren't available.

Food is great! However it’s Starbucks prices for convenience store service… heat your own $7 pastry in the microwave over there?? Reach your grubby hands in that open jar of unwrapped teabags by the self-serve hot water??? Uggh. But the food really is beautiful and delicious so I’ll probably be back…

A bit expensive for soup and a half sandwich but I don't know of any other place to get bread of this quality. Why are good bread and buns so hard to find?

Christopher

A bit expensive for soup and a half sandwich but I don't know of any other place to get bread of this quality. Why are good bread and buns so hard to find?

Service is good, I like the atmosphere, it’s clean. There are only a handful of items I will order from here because I find all the rest to be very bland. What I order I like so I do come here regularly. The reason I wanted to leave an updated review today was because of the bakery items. Please find a new way to store the bagels and other bakery items, they are almost always hard and dry when I get them.

I love Panera and would normally give 5 stars but today my experience was not the greatest. Not sure if it’s because of the lunch rush but the salads we ordered were just that all lettuce had hardly anything else in it. I ordered 2 green goddess chicken cobs they looked nothing like the picture on your menu. There was maybe 5 finely chopped pieces of chicken and a half of an avocado 🥑 exactly that not diced or anything. Oh wait I did get 1 tomato lol the worst salad I’ve ever had here for the price I paid it wasn’t worth it at all. I was very disappointed. Just thought you should know

Livin' the drive thru life. This Panera in Rancho Cordova, is one of the few that have a drive thru. And it's not too far or cumbersome to get to from Highway 50. Easy enough to get to. But the drive thr ordering/pickup window is physically immediate after the right turn. So if you don't angle your car close enough, you'll be stretch armstronging. And it doesn't help if you have TRex arms. I've been stopping by here occasionally throughout the years. Customer service has been great. But the food quality is a hit or miss. On my last visit, the BLT was a dismal representation of a sandwich. It had two thin, short, see thru, microwave type bacon. But they served the bacon ice cold. Interesting Panera choice. The lettuce was an arugula salad mix. Another interesting Panera choice. The tomato slice was super thin. The bread was delicious, but doesn't make up for the lackluster sandwich. We also ordered a half order of Greek salad and half chicken Napa salad sandwich. The salad was chock full of the hard core of inner romaine lettuce. Odd the romaine had the core without the leafy green part as it seemed to be sliced off. Another interesting Panera choice. The chicken Napa is my favorite all time sandwich at Panera. But like the BLT, it was a sad sandwich. It was loaded with arugula salad mix but where's the chicken ?!? It had hardly any chicken salad on the sandwich.

We got lunch, and were asked which side we wanted, and when we chose the apple, they asked if we wanted it sliced. We both said yes. When the food came out, the 1st apple wasn't sliced. When we said it should be, they seemed annoyed and cut it very poorly. They even left the sticker on the apple. The second meal came out, and again the apple wasn't sliced. We didn't ask for it to be sliced as it was such a hassle before. We subscribe to the Sip Club, so we go in for our unlimited drinks often, but are getting less and less food as they keep messing up the orders. It seems they are better in the morning, and worse in the afternoon and evening. I called to speak to a manager later on, and the phone rang and rang and eventually hung up on me. It did this three times, so I gave up. We will get less food for sure from now on.

We typically do a pick up order but this time we did a delivery. And we didn’t see the choice on bread 🥖 as a side for the soup 🥣 unless it was not available that day…so 4 orders of soups with apples 🍎 😜

Lillian

Livin' the drive thru life. This Panera in Rancho Cordova, is one of the few that have a drive thru. And it's not too far or cumbersome to get to from Highway 50. Easy enough to get to. But the drive thr ordering/pickup window is physically immediate after the right turn. So if you don't angle your car close enough, you'll be stretch armstronging. And it doesn't help if you have TRex arms. I've been stopping by here occasionally throughout the years. Customer service has been great. But the food quality is a hit or miss. On my last visit, the BLT was a dismal representation of a sandwich. It had two thin, short, see thru, microwave type bacon. But they served the bacon ice cold. Interesting Panera choice. The lettuce was an arugula salad mix. Another interesting Panera choice. The tomato slice was super thin. The bread was delicious, but doesn't make up for the lackluster sandwich. We also ordered a half order of Greek salad and half chicken Napa salad sandwich. The salad was chock full of the hard core of inner romaine lettuce. Odd the romaine had the core without the leafy green part as it seemed to be sliced off. Another interesting Panera choice. The chicken Napa is my favorite all time sandwich at Panera. But like the BLT, it was a sad sandwich. It was loaded with arugula salad mix but where's the chicken ?!? It had hardly any chicken salad on the sandwich.

Anne Silvestri

We got lunch, and were asked which side we wanted, and when we chose the apple, they asked if we wanted it sliced. We both said yes. When the food came out, the 1st apple wasn't sliced. When we said it should be, they seemed annoyed and cut it very poorly. They even left the sticker on the apple. The second meal came out, and again the apple wasn't sliced. We didn't ask for it to be sliced as it was such a hassle before. We subscribe to the Sip Club, so we go in for our unlimited drinks often, but are getting less and less food as they keep messing up the orders. It seems they are better in the morning, and worse in the afternoon and evening. I called to speak to a manager later on, and the phone rang and rang and eventually hung up on me. It did this three times, so I gave up. We will get less food for sure from now on.

Lumen Marcellana

We typically do a pick up order but this time we did a delivery. And we didn’t see the choice on bread 🥖 as a side for the soup 🥣 unless it was not available that day…so 4 orders of soups with apples 🍎 😜

Food is good. I've been here 3 times and twice my order wasn't right. I ordered Togo so by the time I realized it was too late. I checked my receipt which was correct which means the kitchen messed up.

Forman

Food is good. I've been here 3 times and twice my order wasn't right. I ordered Togo so by the time I realized it was too late. I checked my receipt which was correct which means the kitchen messed up.

It is always 50/50 on this location getting my order right. I pay extra for items that I don't end up getting. Today I was tired and in a rush to get in and pit of the heat. Once home saw items missing and a lot less salad than should be in the bowl. Doesn't feel good when you pay so much to have something exactly like you want it just to be disappointed. Sigh!!! 😩

Looks better than it tasted. Not compare to fresh baked on brownie, cinnamon roll and drinks were a little bland but ok if you want that natural. Still drinks could been better while still giving me the healthy natural quality.

Vang Mee Vue

Looks better than it tasted. Not compare to fresh baked on brownie, cinnamon roll and drinks were a little bland but ok if you want that natural. Still drinks could been better while still giving me the healthy natural quality.

Food is over priced and sometimes seems like a scam. They asked what free side i wanted, chips, bread, apple, fruit cup so I said fruit cup and they charged me 2.50 more... Not only that but the service is terrible. Some old guy literally had to yell for someone in the back to come out and take orders of the people in line. This was during lunch time so the staff must have known people are here from work trying to get a quick meal... For those of you wondering why we didn't use the kiosk, we'll the kiosk kept telling everyone transaction canceled. Staff also didn't care about it.

Ordered a chicken asiago today. Got home and was going to cut sandwich in half. When i checked the chicken there was barely enough to thinly cover half the sandwich. I rearranged the chicken to make a half thin sandwich. Very disappointed .

I love Panera, but the guys here are so slow. I've been here multiple times and it takes forever, even when I pre-order or no one else is in the store... I have no idea why. Food isn't bad. Avoid if you need to save on time.

Broski Moski

Food is over priced and sometimes seems like a scam. They asked what free side i wanted, chips, bread, apple, fruit cup so I said fruit cup and they charged me 2.50 more... Not only that but the service is terrible. Some old guy literally had to yell for someone in the back to come out and take orders of the people in line. This was during lunch time so the staff must have known people are here from work trying to get a quick meal... For those of you wondering why we didn't use the kiosk, we'll the kiosk kept telling everyone transaction canceled. Staff also didn't care about it.

Aleesa

I love Panera, but the guys here are so slow. I've been here multiple times and it takes forever, even when I pre-order or no one else is in the store... I have no idea why. Food isn't bad. Avoid if you need to save on time.

Marsha Robinson - Bthe Church

It is always 50/50 on this location getting my order right. I pay extra for items that I don't end up getting. Today I was tired and in a rush to get in and pit of the heat. Once home saw items missing and a lot less salad than should be in the bowl. Doesn't feel good when you pay so much to have something exactly like you want it just to be disappointed. Sigh!!! 😩

Wow over twelve bucks for a half sandwich and salad. Pretty pitiful quantity. Pictures are definitely deceiving. Taste bland with no flavor. Do yourself a favor and go to La Bou down the road.

Everything was okay until I found a hair that was clearly not mine in my food. Terrible experience

This particular Panera has the worst service in rancho. I was in there for 3 minutes before I had to yell to the back for someone to take my order. I went to get coffee, it was empty so they brought out a fresh pot that tasted like day old sludge, undrinkable! The pastry was okay. This is the 3rd time in a row I have received horrendous service. NEVER AGAIN!!!

horrible food don't waste your money. This place should close.

One of the bad store in this area and manager don’t know how to speak with customer manager was rude and penera has to fire this manager he don’t know the value of the DoorDash delivery driver they have take action on it

Husband and I decided to come & have dinner after a long trip, so we had no food at home so had no choice but to eat out, he had $17.00 a small bowl of soup and a sandwich, I had a $9.19 large bowl of soup, soups were not completely full they served halfway! Sandwich had a one slice of deli chicken slice and 2-3 tiny pieces of brown avocado, came up to the front and asked assistant manager if this is the right amount for bowls served half way. She told me very rude yes that’s the right amount and told me the spoons amounts that are served for each size. I said $33.00 for this meal that it can filled a child not an adult. we been regular customers since they opened that location here in Rancho Cordova, had given them several chances for them to improve their serving sizes and how to treat customers but no , they just became like Chipotle, cheating customers and charging an arm in a leg for a meal. So we had it no more Panera for us, hope they see that they are loosing customers and that they improve their bad service and quality right amount of servings.

Either we got such a shift, or choose another restaurant "panera bread" Perhaps this is the worst trip to a restaurant, from the rudeness of the staff, who mimicked my accent three times trying to point out the imperfection of my language, ending with rudeness during meals due to the fact that we took cups and poured some coffee into them, when in restaurants located in roseville or arden-arcade it is welcome. Not to mention rusty dishes and perfectly cold pecans without walnuts.

WAF ?!?!?! Is it a soup ?!?!? Soup is with bullion !!! And I got not a soup, it’s not soup, this is porridge !!! And return back vegetable soup in menu at least !!! We don’t live in Mexico !!! We a in US !!!

kirill Belovolov

Either we got such a shift, or choose another restaurant "panera bread" Perhaps this is the worst trip to a restaurant, from the rudeness of the staff, who mimicked my accent three times trying to point out the imperfection of my language, ending with rudeness during meals due to the fact that we took cups and poured some coffee into them, when in restaurants located in roseville or arden-arcade it is welcome. Not to mention rusty dishes and perfectly cold pecans without walnuts.

I ordered tomato soup with baguette and butter. I also ordered tuna sandwich on asiago bagel with romaine lettuce. I received a sandwich with minimal tuna no lettuce, no butter. This is the second time this has happened at this location. Very disappointing

Drive through setup is inconvenient to get through. Ordered half soup half sandwich. Soup was cold and sandwich was put together and wrapped very sloppy. 1/3 of it was in the wrapper not the on the sandwich. So disappointing Panera is not like it used to be! Won’t be back, and I’ll spread the word around the building here at work.

Sharonda Johnson

I ordered tomato soup with baguette and butter. I also ordered tuna sandwich on asiago bagel with romaine lettuce. I received a sandwich with minimal tuna no lettuce, no butter. This is the second time this has happened at this location. Very disappointing

Vicki Munson

Drive through setup is inconvenient to get through. Ordered half soup half sandwich. Soup was cold and sandwich was put together and wrapped very sloppy. 1/3 of it was in the wrapper not the on the sandwich. So disappointing Panera is not like it used to be! Won’t be back, and I’ll spread the word around the building here at work.