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| - . GREAT SANDWICHES (STAFF, TOO)
Don't let senseless reviews keep you away.
I just scanned over posts for this location---others, too---and was surprised at the number of low stars, and the reasons. Some---in chilling detail---were enough to make my skin crawl. No hard-working, minimum wage employee doing their best to help a customer, deserves the deriding, even hateful, comments I read.
We've been to this location a few times in the past two years, and everything---food, staff, service---has always been fine. Clean, too. Complaints about pricing? Delusional. They must be comparing Panera's pricing with fast food places. Here you get above average ingredients and an excellent food to cost ratio. To make a decent-sized sandwich at home, using artisan bread, cheese, and specialty luncheon meats (up to $9+ per lb.) can easily cost 3.50-5.00. What all mean-spirited reviewer-thugs will never get is that food industry employees are not their personal indentured slaves but human beings deserving respect trying to make their few bucks an hour, and that pricing goes toward convenience, too, and a place to park their vicious, miserable selves.
I'm making a conscientious effort to stop here more often when I'm out and about, rather than other places. I tend to forget about Panera because I rarely drive this stretch of Center Ridge. I call it the Ghost Strip---that forgotten half mile between Westgate and Wooster Road---where several businesses have either closed or moved from. A shame. Hope this Panera is doing well, will continue to, that they remain open, and that anyone who's never stopped here, will.
. Smoked Ham & Swiss on Stone-Milled Rye
. Roast Beef on their excellent Asiago Cheese Bread
Had these last week. Both an easy 4 star. Soups and salads, too, are very good. Have had just 3 or 4 different pastries/cupcakes, but not over the moon with their sweet assortment. Try---you might find favorites.
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