Panera Bread

Panera is a chain that has been reviewed many times. This branch is typical of all the restaurants in the chain. This Panera is difficult to see from the road so it helps to know it's in this particular strip mall. The food is fresh. The menu items are prepared promptly once you order them at the counter. They tell you your number, which is also printed on your receipt, but they don't give you a number and then deliver your order to the table. Instead, they just call out your number, and if you're not hearing impaired, you go to the desk and pick up your order. Our table had not been cleaned. I deducted two stars for that. Fortunately, my wife heard our number being called so she got our food when it was ready. She had lobster mac and cheese. I had the lobster roll. As you can see from the picture, the lobster roll had all claw meat with a sauce on a hot dog bun. It tasted good. There was plenty of lobster meat. My wife's lobster mac and cheese had plenty of lobster meat, too. There's

The only issue I have with Panera bread is that the sandwiches and soups are not available early enough in the day.

I love this location, but I don't understand why the most popular bagel (cinnamon crunch) is always unavailable after 10AM. JUST MAKE ENOUGH SO THEY CAN BE PURCHASED ANY TIME OF THE DAY. Some of us like bagels in the afternoon. And the soufflé needs to be available all day as well. We can't blame everything on the pandemic.