There was a spider looking bug in my soup. I reached out months ago to corporate with no response from them. If you come here, DON'T get soup... you may have an unpleasant surprise in it. read more

Panera Bread - Salad Near Me - Burlington, North Carolina

Ordered a Chicken Noodle Soup and a Fuji Apple salad. Where do I begin? The chicken soup had an odd flavor that I can't explain. Like someone had put the "wrong" spices in it and it did not taste like chicken soup should. Next, the salad, ewww. It had so many dark, shriveled up and just plain nasty pieces of lettuce in it that I had to pick out about a third to one half of it. I didn't really want it after picking out the gross lettuce, but for $6.89 for a half, I ate it anyway. When I opened YELP and looked at the very low ratings, I was surprised (but not surprised) to see so many. I don't think I've ever encountered a restaurant with so many low ratings. Besides the low food quality, high prices, the place was just not clean. Corporate offices need to look into this place. read more

Worst panera I have ever been to. They only get two stars because the staff is at least polite. I'm not sure if they're understaffed or just have terrible management , but they are the slowest I have ever seen in any similar restaurant. I shouldn't pre order my food at approximately 145, then drive ten min to get there, then wait 30 min only to have to cancel my order because they STILL hadn't made it. If this incident happened once, then fine. But it has happened multiple times. Not only though are they exceptionally slow, but they also nearly always get something wrong. I have ordered food only to discover it is not in the bag, then when I ask about it they say I couldn't have ordered that they've been out of it all day. I show my receipt with it on there and they tell me I must return next week or accept something else that costs less. They also almost always do the opposite of any special requests. (Ex: ask for no sauce receive so much sauce the bread is soaked through) I told myself last time I would never order from here again, then I gave it one more shot cause I was craving something warm. But I'm done. I will just wait till I get home to eat. It's not like I needed lunch anyway, right panera? read more

Quality of food has gone down hill. Ingredients aren't fresh and quite often items are wrong or missing.

Sadly moving into a larger much nicer facility has NOT changed or improved the Management Style at this location. During the weekdays between 7:00 to 8:00 am all but the decaf pot of the 4 large commercial coffee pots are routinely empty and you can't find a clean table. Rather than a Team approach to refilling the pots or cleaning the tables, Management continues to assigns ONE Younger Lady who comes in around 8 am to do all these tasks. I can only imagine how it feels to arrive at work knowing most of the 4 coffee and 2 tea pots in the lobby are empty and most of the tables need to be cleaned, especially with a dinning room twice the size of the one at the previous facility. To Someone's Credit, on the weekend there's one Middle Aged Lady who with a smaller crowd performs these tasks to most everyone's satisfaction. I do not know how she does it, except for a smaller crowd. The Saving Grace at this location is the improved counter to table Eat In Service and the Excellent Healthy Food Choices. The expanded dining, drive through & parking areas are most welcome improvements. As a small business owner and avid patron of Panera, I have brought the shortfalls to Management's attention. If consistently corrected, this location could elevate from a 2 to a 5 Star Rating. read more

I would give it no stars if I could..dirty restaurant, got order wrong, quality of food was poor.

Worst Panera experience ever. Waited 30 minutes for food. Totally mismanaged. Many unhappy customers there.

The young lady working the front would be fired if I was the manager. Her rude attitude and her constant use of her phone rather than doing her job was ridiculous. She was complaining non stop about her job and how she could not wait to get out of there. Maybe the manager should do her a favor and send her on home. Horrible service eqauls dissatisfied customers which in turn equals closing up shop. Perhaps if the manager doesn't have the ability to keep his workers on task there should be a change there too. I think the Yelp reviews on here should speak to this locations performance. read more

Ignore the old reviews... this place looks wonderful and the works were nice and everything was great! Hopefully more people will come here and review so the average rating gets fixed. The store was out of a lot of stuff but the employee that helped me was super nice about finding some substitutions for the stuff they were out of read more

Tomato soup tasted like spaghetti sauce from a jar. Steak and cheese sandwich was ok. My main concern was how messy the place was. Water and trash all over the drink station. Crumbs and paper on the floor. Won't go back to this location. read more

I have learned not to order anything from here except for bagels. I have tried their lattés--terrible. I have tried their sandwiches, honestly at least half on the menu--terrible. Their quality of meats, breads, and vegetables are terrible. I ordered a sandwich earlier today. It took 45 minutes for it to be delivered, and when it was delivered, the entire sandwich to be disassembled in the wrapping. I ate three bites and threw it away. I wanted to call and ask for a refund but thought that would be taking things too far. I will not be ordering or coming to this Panera ever again. read more

Went to this Panera today with my boyfriend. We love their Mac and cheese, but hated the customer service and attitude here. He ordered a "large Mac and cheese and a bread bowl". He got charged for a large Mac and cheese but was given a small cup of Mac and cheese that was not even half way full. We ended up going inside after being in the drive through to get what we ordered and was faced with a manager and employees telling us we were wrong and that maybe the small cup could have been filled up a little more. We will not be back. DON'T GO TO THIS LOCATION. HAVE MAJOR ATTITUDE ISSUES AND POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. read more

Kurt (i believe the name of the cook) was exceptionally rude and when I asked to add egg to my EGG, cheese and bacon wrap he rolled his eyes and acted as if I ordered it that way. If I could give a zero I would. Not to mention they were "out" of almost everything. Panera corporate should be ashamed. read more

This is not a good Panera. The food is sloppily made and very overpriced. The dining room is filthy always; I can say this after six times of going and seeing the same thing. Napkins and crumbs all over, unclean tables, gross teas and lemonades with film and unmixed ingredients in dispensers. Slow, slow, slow service. Not indicative of this company's usual presentation. read more

They are awful. The restaurant is always dirty. The employees are rude. Service takes soooo long. They run out of everything. It is shame because I love Panera's food. read more

This has to be the worst Panera in the country! And I travel a lot!! (Flight attendant) I live here and every time I go to this location something goes wrong. Either they don't have what I would like, they serve it to me raw (after waiting 30 minutes to get what I'd like), or its burnt when I finally receive what I'd like (after being served raw eggs in the souflee. I don't know what happened to this place once they moved. I did come in several times a week. No more. Update 7-29-17 Thought I would try again... dumb idea. read more

This place looks like someone just forgot about it. Like, the manager left and just went home and never came back. It's absolutely filthy. I'm here at 8:37am and the floors are filthy with food from who knows what day last week. The bathroom looks like something from a horror movie. I have only been to this location once or before so I had to ask where the fountain drinks where because they are not visible from the sales counter. I was told after asking a pre-occupied employee that "they are in the back, THERE'S A SIGN". When I got to the fountain drinks I was standing right beside an employee that was filling a container up that made eye contact but didn't bother to greet me as a customer. I had to ask her where the lids were because I couldn't see them where I was standing because they were behind her. She never even bothered to answer me nor did she even try to nod or point. Dang Panera, what the heck? read more

Very poor quality for a Panera location. I got tied of calling customer service over wrong orders, bad quality of the food, etc. read more

Panera Bread - Supposed to be on cantata bread, got a soft French bread. Not very appealing to see this... Mess. Yes I kept the package flat. - Salad Near Me - Burlington, North Carolina

It's been about 6 months and we tried Panera in Burlington again. What a mistake!!! Not only did they forget my $6 Mac & Cheese but my wife also found a dead fly in her French Onion soup. read more

Panera Bread - Salad Near Me - Burlington, North Carolina

Service has become slow, unfriendly, and inconsistent. Repeated my order 2 times and still wasn't right or complete. Drive thru easily took 15 min to get thru and there were only 2 cars in front of me. Portion size of Mac and cheese varies too. I can buy double that for less cost at BJ's or Food Lion. Wish they would take more pride in their food. read more

Slowest service ever. This is the second time I've tried this location. Both times I waited in the drive thru with an empty parking lot for close to 20 minutes. Each time the good was meh. Each time the employee was less than thrilled to serve folks. Each time there were multiple employees standing around appearing to do very little beyond sociakiE. At least they removed the sign that Used to hang near the pick up window threatening to write people up. No wonder employees are grumpy. read more

Ordered the bakers dozen bagels yesterday on the app. First they where short 2 of my bagels and had to get a different ones . Then we found out our chocolate chip bagels where raisin bagels. Not cool no one in my family likes raisin bagels. read more

We were trapped in the drive thru for nearly an hour with only 4 cars ahead of us... I walked around expecting the lobby to be absolutely loaded but it was barely half full (a full lobby wouldn't have excused it anyways but it would've made it a little easier to take the BS) when we finally got up to the window we told them we've decided to go elsewhere because of the wait and they couldn't have cared less! We won't be back... I will be telling everyone I know to make a special effort to avoid the place at all costs. read more

No staff and too slow. From time of order till getting a smoothie was 15 min. Only the little creamers for coffee and half the coffee pots were out at 10AM. Panera is not what it use to be ten years ago. read more

I have to say that I have not been impressed on my last recent visits to Panera. The menu seems a bit stale to me now. When the food selection arrives, it often does not live up to the description I ordered from. Finally the value proposition has declined, this seems like too much to pay for the value received. read more

Today i had a pretty good experience at this location. the sandwich maker (i believe his name is " Jay " im not sure) very enthusiastic about his job and wasn't angry and distraught about it like people are at other places. He handed me my food with no problem, everything was correct, and it tasted very good. i will definitely be coming back here. read more

Awesome service! I love the fact they have a drive through! Makes it super convenient.

I was probably not a 'fan favorite' coming in at opening time on a Sunday to place a large order. I appreciate the team's willingness to help, and effort to fill the order as quick as possible. read more

Super slow drive through. Waited 20 mins from start to finish. Asked the girl at the window twice if she made sure my order was right and got home to find my sandwich missing from the order. $40 bucks for the family and they can't process a simple drive through order. Save your money and avoid this place read more

By far the worst experience I've ever had at a Panera. Food was cold, not even Luke warm, like refrigerator cold. I guess that's the type of service you get when you get there in the closing hour. But then again it's been horrible the past couple times we've been here as well. Cold food and staff in kitchen would rather socialize than get people's orders out in a timely manner. Will not return to this location. I really hope upper management reads some of these reviews. Wasn't worth the $27 we spent tonight. read more

So bad. Be prepared to wait 20-30 minutes at the drive thru window when there is no line for your regular mediocre Panera slop.

It was hubby's choice to try this place again, and just when I thought it couldn't get worse, it has. We were early, so there were only a couple of people here, and the place is filthy. Their Saturday closing crew should be fired. My egg white sandwich was soggy with a quarter avacado stuck on it. How difficult is it to slice an avocado? This Panera is so hit or miss for quality, cleanliness, and service that it's not worth taking a chance. read more

Panera Bread - Green tomato, soggy egg whites and a chunk of avocado. Yum. - Salad Near Me - Burlington, North Carolina

They recently moved this Panera bread to a much larger new building. Employees are cheerful and helpful. Location is clean, bright and sweets displayed pretty behind a glass case. They get you in and out quickly. Most of all accurately. I'm pleased with the quality of the food at this location. read more

I usually love Panera but this time it was terrible. Me and my team went for lunch in between matches and the lady who served us was rude and messed up several orders, didn't ask what sides we wanted, was talking so loud she was almost yelling and she referred to us as "that soccer team" we were all wearing sweatshirts that said women's tennis in big letters and she forgot my Caesar sauce for my Caesar salad which is honestly just disappointing it is safe to say I will never be going back to this Panera read more

I am a huge fan of Panera but frankly this Panera Bread has let me down on multiple occasions. First the lady checking me out was basically half asleep. Moved SO slow. But hey should could have been at the end of a shift, so that can even have a free pass. My grilled cheese or should I say grilled old bread???? Maybe bread? I don't know. See attached. Extremely sad because Panera is not cheap. I left unsatisfied and still hungry. Other than that the actually store was very nice and clean. No complaints other than the horrible grilled cheese and a little bit slow. read more

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Honestly, this Panera bread just sucks. The girl in the drive thru was straight up rude, then when inside the food took forever. Which I can understand if a restaurant is busy, but it was a literal ghost town in here? Absolutely ridiculous. Get a grip. read more

Should try having customer service... or something. You will wait a very long time to get your food, and your soup will be cool. The table condiment counter will look like Michael Moore stood over it and stuck hours finger down his throat after decimating his favorite oyster bar. You're better off going to Harris Teeter and piecing the meal together yourself; you'll get it faster and without any snark. read more

Literally this is the worst Panera ever. I had to be on a dairy free diet, and we went for breakfast one day so I decided to just get a sandwich without the eggs or cheese. I get it's annoying to accommodate vegans or special diets or whatever, but I opened my sandwich and there was ONE spinach leaf, ONE tomato slice and a tiny cube of avocado, yet I still paid the full $4-$5 whatever it was. read more

Came in for a quick bagel and ended up waiting over 30 minutes for my order. Staff looked incredibly short staffed and there were at least 25 people waiting for their orders in the pick-up area. Every customer seemed upset, rightfully so. Although I understand the staff was also stressed during this extremely busy lunch rush, they were not very friendly either. I'm not one to ever leave reviews, but this experience was very disappointing. This Panera location definitely needs to step up their service. read more

SLOW!!! The drive through will take 15 minutes plus. Walked inside at lunchtime and only one register going with 15 people on line. The manager was standing there staring off in space when I mentioned he should open up another register he rolled his eyes then complied . The food was good. read more