Holy expensive food Batman. My boyfriend has been encouraging me to eat at Panera Bread for years. I am the kind of gal who likes to spend $3.75 on lunch if I can get away with it and Panera just always seemed so pretentious to me. When I think of Panera Bread I think of Au Bon Pain expenivse as hell for no reason. I had a black bean soup and a hunk of bread grand total $9.00 me thinks not!