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6368375 No.6368375 [Reply] [Original]

Could someone please explain to me why so many people think that Panera is "healthy" and "good for you" fast food chain?

>> No.6368380

>>6368375
because it doesnt feel like a fast food chain

they even had me fooled until I saw how they make their mac&cheese

>stand there waiting for my food
>they open a cardboard box
>see a binch of plastic bags with some goo in them in the box
>they take one out, open it, and pour it into a bowl
>its my hot mac&cheese

>> No.6368416

marketing

>> No.6368424

marketing

>> No.6368425

>>6368375
marketing

>> No.6368429
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6368429

>go there one day with my sister
>it's nothing but old women and 'fashionable' 15-25 year old women
>okay well how is the food
>5 dollars for HALF OF A SANDWICH with no fucking substance on it, just a salty sugary sauce for flavor
>these people literally pay 20 dollars for a sandwich and soup
>meme desserts obviously out of a freezer
This has to be one of the stupidest restaurants ever, yet somehow they thrive

I can go to a farmer's market nearby and get a full loaded up as fuck with like 3 servings of meat sandwich for 3.39.

Basically, if a restaurant is inhabited only by women you know it's fucking shit.

>> No.6368436

I went there last week with my parents to just catch up, a fucking whole sandwich was $8.50 alone.

Fucking really?

>> No.6368446

marketing

>> No.6368480

>>6368375
Because in clapistan, your restaurant is healthy just by not frying everything

>> No.6368486

marketing

>> No.6368666

>>6368429
>meme desserts obviously out of a freezer
Only thing out of the freezer is the crumb cake

>> No.6368676
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6368676

Have you seen their new "broth bowls"?

Panera pisses me off so much. Not because of their outrageous prices for mediocre food, but because they actually get away with it! They're the iPhone of the fast food world.

>> No.6368680

>>6368375

They have shitloads of cash for advertising.

Your average fucker doesn't realize that the real fresh shit comes from your local small time butcher/deli/baker

>> No.6368687

it's hipster and yuppie bullshit

>> No.6368696

>>6368676
>They're the iPhone of the fast food world.

My iphone was free... I don't think food is free at panera.

>> No.6368707

>tfw when I work at panera
I lol when people think we have a kitchen. I serve a fuck ton of Mac and cheese and grilled cheese to teenage girls. During the weekdays it's housewives, old people, and people who use panera as their office. Feel free to ask me questions.

>> No.6368721

>>6368380
All the pastas are frozen. We put the Mac and cheese in a hot water bath machine that heats up the soups. The soups are frozen as well. A good portion of our food is frozen. I am working tomorrow so I might take some pics of it

>> No.6368727

>>6368707
Could I pick up some milf ass there?

>> No.6368734

>>6368707
Do you bake your bread in house?

>> No.6368736

>>6368727
Probably, If you go to a Panera in a well off area, you will be able to find some milfs. I got milfs giving me looks while their teenage daughters are oblivious. Sometimes the older women are bitter cunts though.

>> No.6368748

>>6368734
Everything is baked in house, however we do not mix the dough. The dough is delivered daily from fresh dough facilities.

>> No.6368777

>>6368707
How come every time I go into panera it's always a harem of girls fresh out of high school behind the counter? Also they never have bread bowls

>> No.6368789

uhhhh it can be

just how about maybe don't eat there every day, that's healthy

nothing wrong with their salads anyway and they're delicious

>> No.6368790

>>6368777
Sometimes we sell out. It depends on the location. Is a harem of girls at the counter a bad thing?

>> No.6368818

>>6368707
Is the bread worth getting?

I've since stopped going to panera because it really isn't worth it. Once in a blue to be somewhere to kill time and munch on something or a study group, but that's it.

>> No.6368830

>>6368818
Not any better than a decent supermarket's bakery

>> No.6368837

>>6368830
Ah ok.

Outside of getting your regular arnold bread, I sometimes get some local stuff from Whole foods that's pretty good.

>> No.6368855

>>6368721
Same with au bon pain

>> No.6368899

>>6368380
>order mac and cheese
>thinks the unhealthy part is that it's been premade and thawed

>> No.6368909

>>6368777
>a harem of girls fresh out of high school behind the counter
lol, i noticed that too.
>>6368790
>Is a harem of girls at the counter a bad thing?
honestly, they're awful. broody, unhelpful, can't follow directions, messy

>> No.6368918

>>6368676
>talking about Panera and iPhone

Clearly you don't understand cooking nor technology. Please shut the fuck up

>> No.6369004

>>6368909
Literally this. I don't know if you've been to a chick fil a but they have the weird harem thing going on but the difference is the service is phenomenal for a fast food place. Everyone is so polite and clean it's like the stepford wives of chicken.

But screw panera all the girls in there cant get an order right to save their lives.

>> No.6369006

>>6368909
Found the kissless virgin.

>> No.6369015

>>6368429
you're paying for the aesthetic as much as the food

it's supposed to be a nice comfy rustic place with comfort food and a fire and shit

that's different than driving to a farmer's market and buying a random podunk sandwich

>> No.6369016

>>6368727
>>6368707
how about JB ass?

>> No.6369073

>>6368899
you don't know what I think

>> No.6369093

The french onion soup bread bowl is delicious. Fight me, faggots.

>> No.6369096

>>6369093
I'm sure it's just fine, if you say so. I just boycott that place for political reasons so I'll never know first hand.

>> No.6369400

>>6368676
lol that kind of looks like vegan food

>> No.6369570

>>6369016
There is plenty of jb ass there. There are a lot of girls who meet for study sessions there.

>> No.6369575

>>6368736
I love the taste of bitter cunt.

>> No.6369579

>>6369006
found the normie who eats at panera

>> No.6369991

>>6369015
Farmers market has a certain aesthetic to it as well.

Personally I'd trust the random sandwich rather than Panera. But I've never even seen one of these stores, and reading this thread I seriously doubt I'd ever go in one.

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>>6368375
It's all in the font, man. And that logo.

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>>6368416
>>6368424
>>6368425

>> No.6370713
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6370713

>>6368375
basically a non-French La Madeleine

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6370770

I really enjoyed their Roast Beef pannini with horseradish sauce.

So now I just get the ingredients, make it myself, and come out with 3 of them for the same price

>> No.6370791

>>6368380
That's how most chain restaurants do shit. It makes it foolproof for low wage unskilled labor.

>> No.6370803

>>6368429
>>>/r9k/

>> No.6370854

>>6368375

Same people that think Subway is Healthy and Eat "Fresh"

>> No.6370858

>>6368375

There are maybe a few healthy or "light" options on their menu, but overall they are definitely not healthy.

>> No.6370892

I think their food is okay, but man those prices are disgusting. They must make like 200% profit at least. I would only go if someone else is paying.

>> No.6370902

>>6368375
>go to starbucks
>ask for apple cider
>it's literally just warm apple juice and cinnamon
>I bought it the next 3 times I went
I hate me