Panera Bread

Solid menu of soups, sandwiches, and salads. A variety of flavors and styles. Plus, they have a variety of bakery items like muffins, pastries, and cookies. I like that they have the calorie count of each item listed on the menu. The staff here is friend and fast. It does seem like the prices have increased lately, but the portion size and quality is still there.

The staff at this Panera have always been friendly, and the restaurant has always been clean when I've been there (this is not always the case with Panera's).  

The friendliness and the cleanliness were going to bump this from a three to a four, but then I remembered how they took my two favorite vegetarian items off the menu - the fandango salad and the grilled portabella sandwich - so that's bringing them back down to a three as an overall chain.  They've done the opposite of most places post 2000 - instead of bringing more vegetarian items onto the menu, they've removed several of the ones they had.  Though at last check they did still have a vegetarian soup every day, so that's a plus - keep that up, bring more vegetarian foods back, and maybe more of my business will head Panera's way.

Standard panera. Food was ready before we even got a table. My favorite sandwiches: sierra turkey and bacon turkey bravo