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| - First time ever at a Panera Bread and I will never be coming back, at least not to this location. Not typically overly critical, but it was almost impossible not to be in this situation. There were at least 6 dirty tables in the restaurant and even after we realized that this place was a "buss your own table" establishment, every bussing station was so full that nothing could be set there! There were stacks, 50 plates high with trash overflowing at every station. Every employee appeared they were under 18, one of the youngins even went outside with a large Pepsi, a dinner roll, and his mini iPod speaker for a break in the middle of the busy lunch hour! The 3 iced teas were not brewed the entire hour we were there, and the diet Pepsi was "out of order" aka the staff didn't feel like changing out the old box and putting in a new one. If all of this wasn't bad enough, there was a giant wet floor sign right in front of the drink station with a pool of water surrounding it the entire time we were in the restaurant. As more people started to filter in and become rightfully pissed off that the beverage station was sub par, napkins weren't available, and there were no clean tables to sit at, the manager appeared from god knows where and we got to listen to her boss around all of the employees for the next several minutes. If the food here was amazing, at least some of these inconveniences may have been excusable but the food was average at best. If you can tolerate all this, then by all means go for Panera! Otherwise, I'd certainly stay away from this what seemed like a chuck-e-cheese type establishment!
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