At the Mall of America there are many dining options, unfortunately not many of them are healthy options. I was excited to see Panera Bread in the food court. I ordered a sandwich, chips, a cookie, and a Sips drink. The food was good. The restaurant was crowded and it took a little bit to find a clean and empty table. It also took a while for the food to come out. This was a good spot to rest recharge for the rest of the day at the Mall of America. I recommend Panera Bread. read more

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This location is found near the food court near the Raddison Hotel side of MOA. They have a lot of seating and ordering is very easy. After ordering, you will go near the back of the restaurant to pick up your food. They have a screen that shows your name and what stage the restaurant is at in terms of preparing your food. As this place is located at the mall, it can get quite noisy during rush hour. Great selection of sandwiches and drinks! Nice place to go with friends or if you have a family with kids! read more

I've only been a few times due to the locations & price but I absolutely love their soup broccoli and cheese it's my favorite out of anywhere and the turkey sandwiches are fresh. If you like salads they make a lot of different varieties and they usually have fresh tea as well read more

The sandwich was fine, too many tomatoes for my taste. French onion soup wasn't hot enough, but yet again I pulled up late for my order. Muffie was the highlight of the meal. Finished off with a chocolate milk, it was lit. Did not know they made smoothies, way too overpriced though. Just being honest. I was proposed to here by my now fiancé, so romantic read more

Panera Bread - The overpriced Strawberry Smoothie and Horizon Reduced Fat Organic Chocolate Milk. Still fire tho tbh. - Salad Near Me - Bloomington, Minnesota

Best green goddess sandwich I have ever had. Iowa Paneras skimp on the greens! We visited on a super crowded Saturday and found out Fridays are busy too. read more

Croissant sandwich, quick service amazing baked goods!!! Friendly staff with good suggestions.

I thought I was getting a buffalo chicken sandwich from here, and when I arrived home it was about four small pieces of chicken, thick hard bread with a not so good taste. Actually I could only eat like three bites. It wasn't good at all and I ended up throwing it away. I didn't even take any pictures. So it's a 1star for me. This location was at MOA. read more

The cashier was nice. Food was surprisingly good. But the appearance is terrible. How do you have damn near 10 employees working and nobody is cleaning the food on the tables and chairs/booths. On top of the very uncleanliness, there were fruit flies all around the store. They were by the drink area, the cash register, and by the tables and chairs. Good food for Panera, but please clean the space. read more

I work at the mall and come here a lot to get their drinks through the sip club. The staff is always super kind when I come and have yet to have a bad experience. read more

Panera Bread - charged lemonade - Salad Near Me - Bloomington, Minnesota

Richfield location had friendly staff, portions were great! Will return! Will tell friends!

I walk in and ask for a breakfast sandwich, the cashier says oh actually breakfast is over. Ok fine. I ask for a iced coffee, she states actually it's self serve. Also when paying with card it asks for tips? Um i'm not tipping on self service. I get my cup and do my coffee, no regular half and half, the bins where the coffee is stored are empty. The tops are all the way at the back of the store so you have to walk over with your prepared coffee to get a top. My boyfriends supposed to be hot decaf coffee was ice cold. This place is a mess. read more

The coffee at this location is extremely watered down. Barely tastes like coffee. Not acceptable.

This Panera Bread is super high-tech and advanced. Walking in, there's four tablets on the side where you can place your order and pay by yourself. You can also order and pay at the cash register too. Once you place your order, you receive a buzzer and you can take a seat. The place is very large with tons of seating and is overall, very well-maintained, clean, and organized. A worker delivered our order to our table in just a few short minutes after placing our order - service is fast! The only major downside is, the portions are pretty small for the price you are paying. I ordered the "Pick 2" option and got a salad and a half-sandwich. The half-sandwich was close to $5.50 and was extremely tiny. It's a pricier option, but healthier & their breads and pastries always taste fresh. read more

Panera Bread - Pick 2 -- Caesar salad & steak sandwich - Salad Near Me - Bloomington, Minnesota

The low rating is solely because there's no hot breakfast food (just bagels/pastries, no egg sandwiches etc,). I realize they open later in the mall but website says breakfast before 11, so we walked over from the hotel. I've never seen a Panera that doesn't serve a full breakfast menu. read more

Since my original review it's been disappointing for subsequent visits. Barely lukewarm soup, always out of bagels, hardly any cashiers. The saving grace is the ability to order from the app and just pickup and go. Probably my least favorite location for Panera. read more

I ordered a cup of brocilli cheese soup, it came with bread. Really good. I love the healthy options & a drive through, awesome. The 3 stars is because, the girl in the drive through took my cash and handed me my food with a mouth full of food & smacking away. Kinda gross. read more

Service was so slow! 30 minutes to toast a bagel and u cant even spread the cream cheese! Unacceptable waste of my time and all they gave was a half ass apology! read more

Panera Bread - Salad Near Me - Bloomington, Minnesota

we usually love Panera Bread but this place was awefull. our takeaway chicken avocado melt had one piece of avocado and a pile of cilantro on one spot. the bread was also different to what it's normally on. the chicken noodle soup had have one piece of chicken and two noodles. the baguette was ice cold so maybe just out of the freezer. Since the line was looooong probably a staffing problem but this was most definitely NOT okay. read more

This is my favorite Panera in the Twin Cities. They are friendly and polite. They deliver the food to the table and ask if there is anything else that you need. I wish other Panera locations would learn from these guys. Nolan is a your Manager that is the one I saw today. He is great. He engages the customer in a helpful and friendly manner. I wish the practices of this location rubs off onto the others. I do like the healthy food that Panera commits to serving. I have lost 110 lbs and i want to continue to eat well and stay in shape!! Good luck to you and any of your goals. My advice, keep it simple, 1 bad habit at a time. read more

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Both the cashier lady and also Winona- the lady in the kitchen - were so nice, great customer service! Food was great too.

No matter where you are, Panera does a good job of being consistent (at least my experience). It's a nice addition to the Mall of America and gives a healthy option among the many other quick serve/fast food restaurants. As soon as you walk in the door, you get to pick whether you would like to order from a tablet or a human. This is a a convenient luxury, especially for a place like Panera where it can be difficult to decide what to order. Having someone staring blankly behind a counter while you nervously squint at the menu can be intimidating. Another great tech feature that more establishments are incorporating is the ability to order from your mobile device/laptop. This allows you to order ahead of time and simply walk in to pick up your food without waiting or having to stand in line. It's great to have this ability at the mall because in groups, people tend to want to get food from different restaurants and gather in the food court to eat. The food here is typical of what you'd expect but what's great about this particular location is the service. For whatever reason, the multiple times that I've been in, the employees here are always chipper and eager to be of help. Although there are a ton of choices to eat at MOA, Panera is a solid one that I would recommend. read more

Slow! Take your own order at kiosk, then grab a pager and prepare to wait. That is too bad because Panera food is goodd but the service is bad. read more

I was at the new location in Richfield... Lyndale shops off of 494... the service was out standing... i was Great smile... I had the Turkey chili... and it was superb.. great tasting read more

The Panera in the mall is so cozy, it's always clean and the employees are welcoming. Whenever I come here it is to study or to catch up with friends because it's never too loud or busy. My favorite thing to buy a drink because their passion papaya green tea is the best, I get it every time! It is so much more cheaper than Starbucks and if you stay in the restaurant you get free refills (and for about $2.50 that's an amazing deal). The only reason why I docked it a star is because today i bought food for a change and I ordered the Chicken Tortellini Alfredo which came with a baguette. It was delicious but the chicken didn't seem quite right, it almost reminded me of canned chicken because it was broken up into very small chunks. Also the portion was very very small. I understand it is because of the quality ingredients in it but for $9.34, I would've gone to noodles and company down the hall. read more

Panera Bread - Chicken Tortellini Alfredo - Salad Near Me - Bloomington, Minnesota

Very Limited vegan options and the staff wasn't too knowledgeable about what's vegan or not, but they were helpful and helped me find fitting options. I ended up with the vegan lentil quinoa bowl and a black bean soup. The bowl was not really good, I didn't like the broth and it was pretty small but I think that is just personal taste. The black bean soup though was really good. To sum it up: great quick stop for a snack. read more

It's a Panera. My expectations were met. I stopped in here for lunch on 4-27-2017. I ordered the bacon turkey bravo sandwich with tomato basil, signature sauce, lettuce, tomato and American cheese with a little salt and pepper; pickle spear; chips; and large drink. Service was okay, nothing to write home about. Quality of the food was good. It was consistent with what I was expecting to get. The restaurant was busy, but they kept everyone and everything moving. Thanks. read more

We've had several conferences at MOA in the last few months and have learned our lesson the hard way when it comes to ordering for 15+ people during the lunch rush on a weekend at MOA: Panera does it the best. The food is great, the service is quick, we order online and it's ready by the time we walk down there, detailed printed receipt, names attached to our orders, big smile on the staff's faces, oh and a free goody bag full of extra apples, chips, breads, sides, cookies, etc. Panera for the win; making our lunch during conferences easier every time. read more

Love Panera! Great service and great food! Would definitely recommend both their chai tea latte and their Asiago bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. Both are amazing. Great place for a typical breakfast. Would recommend. read more

Extremely understaffed with apparent hopes that people will use their self serve kiosks.

I'm so happy there's a Panera in the Mall now!! I had just come back from vacation and wanted a really healthy option. Panera is definitely my go-to and how convenient is it that there's one right in the Mall now. The space is pretty large (granted, it was a Monday night so I'm sure on weekends it'd be a bit more crazy). But compared to next door neighbor Freshii, the seating is really good. Our food came out really quickly. We had a buzzer for when our food was ready, but the manager (I think) came and brought us our food. He was really nice!! I wish I had gotten his name, but he stopped by a couple times just to check in and we really appreciated that. There's one bathroom (unisex) located in the back. So the only downside is that there are probably lines for the bathroom during peak hours. read more

I ordered a salad on the nice self serve kiosk they had. Great idea! I added extra chicken, avocado, onions. When my salad was brought to me it had no avocado, the pulled chicken I paid extra for looked like mush. And there was literally 3 blueberries.... it was so bland and disappointing I had to ask them to remake it. The first employee I talked to wasn't very accommodating. He just offered to give me more dressing to give it more flavour.... umm no. When you're paying close to 20 bucks for a salad it should be impressive. Luckily a more professional employee came in and had the salad remade. The second one was decent... read more

It's Panera. Food is always great and way too expensive. But this place has hardly anyone in it on a Sunday evening and the service is sooooo slow here. read more

This location is in Mall of America food court, does not open until 8 am unlike posting which says 6 am. Yeah, thanks.

Best Panera Bread experience, EVER. The employees at this location restore my faith in society. Such wonderful people serving others with a "please" and "thank you" every time. If you can, eat here for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beyond! Big shoutout to Travis! read more

Panera Bread is pretty consistent at making their food really good. I ordered a Chipotle Chicken Avocado Melt and it was thankfully really good. A small problem I had was I was given barely any avocado in the sandwich, two small slices at most. My main problem was the wait. I only had two small orders in front of me yet once I ordered, I waited at least 20 mins before my food came out. Can't imagine how long I'd wait when it is busy. read more

Like any other Panera. Fresh, healthy choices, and delicious scratch-made breads and pastries.

I work in the mall and love rapid pickup but I ordered it tonight and was super disappointed, I wanted the chocolate chunk cookie, but they put an apple in my bag and didn't even let me know they were out of the cookies, just waited til I got home and was SUPER DISAPPOINTED. I was looking forward to it, at least throw a different sweet in there? What I paid 3 dollars for a small crappy apple. They also forgot the cheese in my sandwich !!! read more

This panera was not to my satisfaction. First, the workers were very unpleasant and rude while I was ordering. Then when I got my food, the salad size proportions were off. I used to work at Panera and I know the size was inaccurate. For the food prices being so expensive, I should get my money's worth of not only food but also the experience. I am not happy with the MOA panera. read more

This is the worst experience I have ever had at a a Panera. First when I was ordering, the girl didn't seem interested at all and was almost seemed bored with me. And then I had to wait 20 minutes for Mac and cheese only to find out that they forgot to make my order. When I finally received it, it was cold. I walked out after that. I think it's safe to say I will NOT be returning any time soon. read more

I usually come to Panera and have a wonderful experience. When I came to the Panera in mall of America it was HORRIBLE. First of all when I was ordering my food it took forever and I couldn't understand the women ordering my food. Then it took forever to even get my food. When my food came I did not get silverware or the right kind of bread that I wanted. When I was eating my food was COLD. I will not be coming back to this Panera ever again. read more