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This cost me $27 ($5 tip) wtf
Ordered Panera for lunch and this is how much paper they used for half a sandwich to make it look bigger.
Was my first thought as well
I worked at Panera a couple years ago , this is the right answer lol.
It’s always precut paper and usually whoever wraps the sandwich doesn’t care how much they use, even if it’s the half sandwich not the whole lol.
Better to get more than less I think, I’d prefer a safely wrapped sandwich 🥪
I really don’t understand why anyone goes to Panera.
Fucking overpriced, mediocre ass food.
Mediocre is a compliment at this point. I've been to Panera Bread stores in 3 different states and all of them were disappointing.
It used to be more affordable but all fast food places are over priced now
It's hospital food. Why are people paying $20 for this shit
Panera sandwiches taste ok but way overpriced for what you get. But their flatbread pizzas are amazing. I haven’t been in a while (year or two ish) but iirc I used to get a flatbread with a frozen chocolate cold brew with a shot of espresso for less then $20 (around?)
I honestly think their flat bread pizzas are the worst thing on their menu ngl I love their sandwiches tho
Convenience for me. I like their grilled cheese since it’s not soaked in butter lol. It’s better then McDonalds
$27 for a grilled cheese
They're not even good grilled cheeses. They're actually pretty shit
I am
McDonald's got grilled cheese?
Not that I know of, I just mean in general Panera is better than McDonalds.
What's that have to do with anything if you only go to panera for the grilled cheese?
I go there for other things. The chicken sandwiches are pretty good. I just wanted grilled cheese for once lol. So menu wise, Panera is better.
Oh i see. I don't got panera so i can't judge so you do you ig
It's like asking why someone goes to Chipotle instead of Taco Bell. They aren't really comparable to begin with.
they're both resturaunts with a similar setup of ingredients, the only difference is the way they prepare it, it's all the same beef chicken cheese lettuce, you can go to a t-bell and just order a taco with whatever you want on it just like chipotle with less options lol
For $27 I will make you a grilled cheese made out of any cheese you want and bring it to you personally
It really isn't though ...
Also, if you want a grilled cheese for lunch.. make one the night before and microwave it at work. It'll taste the same as Panera's, if not better. 🙃
That sounds nasty AF.
Ok
If you are ever short of money, orders like that are why.
It costs about $0.50 to make a toasted cheese sandwich.
If your work is fortunate enough to have an actual toaster: take bread and cheese to work. Toast the bread to your liking and then put the cheese on and microwave for like 15ish seconds or just until the cheese is melted. It'll keep your sandwich tasting better than leftover grilled cheese.
Another alternative is to toast your bread before work, keep the cheese separate (cool the toast completely before bagging it, or you'll probably end up with some soggy bread by lunchtime). Then microwave just until the cheese is melted.
Damn y’all destroyed him for just saying ok lmao
THAN
You right, you right
That sandwich doesn't even look grilled though, which IMO is the more infuriating part of your post. It looks like it was grilled for 5 seconds.
Because it’s delicious.
Expensive? Yes. But it’s delicious and I will die on that hill
It's not delicious, though. Most of their menu items taste average, at best.
bro, people can have an opinion. Also, if you really look at a Panera restaurant and see all those people in it and think: "those people are paying a ton of money for food that tastes like cardboard. Are they stupid?"
This is Reddit, you're automatically wrong unless you agree with every contradicting opinion simultaneously
Picky eaters with a shit palette be like:
It's not delicious, though. Most of their menu items taste average, at best.
Picky eaters would not enjoy shit. They wouldn't be very picky then, would they?
It's basically hospital food.
It doesn't matter how many times you parrot that shitty line you read on the internet, it doesn't make it true.
Go out and actually try the food so you can come up with your own opinion instead of copying an unfunny joke.
Bro Panera sucks don't die on this hill. Quality has gone way down since they were bought out a few years back
Quiznos was pretty rad until a similar death spiral.
The Baja Bowl actual better and is fairly priced than anything the lazy swaths of people on Uber Eats order from Taco Bell or Chipotle.
Popularity doesn't always mean good.
Yeah I used to eat at Panera Bread all the time. It's prepackaged hospital food that they microwave.
And I used to work there, so I know you’re full of shit.
It’s not prepackaged or microwaved, in fact it’s some of the freshest fast food out there. All of the bread is baked in-house every single day. Anything left at the end of the day is donated to food banks, nothing is held over for the next day. Everything is made fresh too. The chicken salad, the tomato basil salad, the veggies are all fresh cut.
I could go on, but you clearly don’t care about the truth, you’re just repeating that shitty “it’s hospital food” line you read online. Get your own opinions instead of regurgitating tired bullshit.
Thank you. I agree, it’s expensive and not good for you but it tastes way better than a cardboard hockey puck from McDonalds. I will be there to die on that hill too.
People act like it's the worst thing they ever ate, ignoring the fact that they're a wildly successful restaurant chain for a reason. If they were truly as bad as people pretend, they wouldn't be in business.
The average person like average food. Pretty obviously that widely popular food chains fall dead center of the bell curve
It's mid af and so is mcdonalds, olive garden, chillis, chick filet. They are all extremely mid
Mendocino Farm has entered the chat.
Their Signature Take/Spicy Take chicken sandwiches with jalapeño/Parmesan crisps are one of the best out there.
Aside from that, meh.
27 bucks for that thing?? Damn you must be rich
Nope, just hungry lol. I rarely order food or buy things for myself.
I bet you're very responsible with your money
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They might have just had an extra sheet out from something else. Def a lot of paper but I don’t think it’s purpose was to deceive.
Yeah they don't care about making it look bigger
Yeah probably, it’s still annoying though lol
Totally agree. I always felt like portions were ridiculously small at Panera so I don’t go there too much anymore on lunch breaks but sometimes there aren’t a lot of options.
Sandwich portions def too small. But their pizza is great and good price
They were way bigger back when I was in college and would go for the wifi. I used to not even be able to finish a meal there. Now it’s just….a slap in the face
I dunno why people downvoted this lol seems like a reasonable comment ffs
Reddit 🤷♀️
downvote bots have been infecting a lot of subs lately
Must be an exciting life lmao
i know right? im not sure the point of the bots in the first place or what purpose they serve in the grand scheme of things. i guess i could understand upvote or report bots, but oh well
That sandwich wasn’t $27.
The fact that you ordered a small order via delivery made the whole process $27 - the cost of your sandwich - the cost of the delivery so the service makes money - the cost of the delivery so that the driver is actually willing to drive out - the cost of a tip
When the order is bigger, the extra costs even out to not throw you for a loop by inflating the whole thing.
I ONLY go to Panera when someone gives me a gift card because it’s basically shit, but none of this is their issue, and it’s stupid to try and “trick you” after you’ve already bought something.
I wouldn’t order there if I knew someone who was willing to pick up from small businesses near me. Door dash takes huge fees so I never order from small businesses near me unless I can get someone to pick up for me since I’m normally working. There’s a really good Peruvian restaurant near me but I feel bad every time I order through door dash, hence ordering Panera. I never tip less the 20% for obvious reasons.
It’s also the only fast food place that doesn’t make me sick when I eat there. McDonald’s, Wendy’s, BK, etc, make me horribly sick lol. I only order out when I’m at work and I am super hungry, like pass out hungry. I’m actually pretty well informed about the business happenings in the area around me, including actually knowing the RM for the Panera. It doesn’t do any good for me because she’s a racist, ableist, cheap bitch. Sometimes you just have to ignore it because looking to far in will cause you to run for the hills I guess
I don’t know what any of this has to do with what your original post says, or what I replied.
Ok
you're being downvoted because your caption was disingenuous, you claimed that the sandwich you got was $27 while knowing it was only so aggregiously expensive because of all the extra fees you got from it being delivered, as well as it being a small order.
you can have whatever reason you want for spending an obscene amount of money for a tiny amount of food, but to then complain about it is just silly, you knew what you were getting when you bought it.
That’s not what I’m complaining about. I knew what I was gonna spend when I ordered food I just figured someone would ask so I added it to answer. It’s the amount of paper not the price.
Your assumption isn't logical. Why would they try to make something look bigger after it's been bought, knowing you are going to open it as soon as you recieve it?
Making it look bigger after you paid is asking for disappointment, makes no sense.
More likely to keep it warm or prevent damage.
Thats a mistake. They wrapped it in a cold sheet, realized it wasn't a warm sheet, too lazy to unwrap the cold sandwich sheet, so they just put the how sandwich sheet over it.
I had Panera in 2017. Never went back
Looks like they wrapped the sandwich in the turbo chef paper then in the regular thermal paper, I work main line at a Panera and the turbo chef paper is supposed to be discarded after cooking. I've had to get onto associates for so many tings, including not properly wrapping items too, perks of being a team lead I guess...
First mistake is ordering Panera
Wrong
I worked at Panera. We wrapped warm sandwiches like grilled cheese in extra paper to help it stay warm that much longer, not to make it appear bigger.
How is that half’s sandwich
I ordered two poboys from Bill Miller’s BBQ yesterday remembering they were pretty large for dinner yesterday and lunch today… boy had they changed… $8 for each sandwich and I finished each in 6 fucking bites! I’m not a big man so I don’t take massive bites from my sandwiches. Each sandwich was smaller than a dollar bill…
It's to protect the sandwich from the snow!
ya that little paper is a turbo chef paper that is used to be cooked in the oven, the sandwich is just poorly wrapped
edit: Panera employee here, they should be wrapped tight for half sandwiches at least
Bro, use the BOGO half off coupon with Subway, and pick up the sandwiches yourself.
I got like two footings for $15 the other day. Lol
Does anyone eat, like, tuna sandwiches or pb&j’s anymore?
I can get 4 loaves of bread for $5.
panera is just overpriced hospital food
Someone once described Panera to me as expensive hospital food and I’ve never really gotten over that…
That’s such a good description.
That's what you get for ordering Panera 😏
I highly doubt the workers being paid minimum wage care enough to make your sandwich look bigger lol.
Make your own sandwich and then nothing to complain about. Your order (chips included) is a big part of the packaging /waste problem.
So the Reddit app is really bad, and I can’t reply to people. I tried editing it to clarify the point of this post so I guess I’ll comment.
As some people pointed out, it’s stupid to think that’s it to make it seem bigger, and I agree. The “mildly infuriating” part is the absolute waste of paper this is. It’s a massive piece of paper for the size of the sandwich.
I don’t wanna hear the “then why did you order there if they’re so wasteful” comments, because the simple answer is that it’s none of your business. Thank you. Have a nice day.
Clever yet so evil
I ordered a couple bowls of soup for takeout from Panera once. I got two 2oz. ramekins of soup. It cost me around $20.
Sooo you’re telling me a lot of paper around something makes it look bigger??? Brb going to find paper and my wife….
I worked at a Panera for a summer years ago (like 15 years ago at least) and I was trained to fold or fluff the meat (can’t remember which term they used, but one of those two) in the sandos to look like there was more than there actually was, so I believe this.
For $27 plus a $5 tip i would drive there myself and get that crappy average looking toasted thing
I don’t have a car. That’s why I paid someone else to do it.
Ordering Panera was your first mistake
It looks just like any other sandwiches! What is so special about the taste.... Well, at least for me. It doesn't look appetizing. At least basic Subway have 'the look' (not that I buy there..). I homemade plenty much of meals
I like the cheese and bread they use. I honestly only ordered Panera because it was the only option that wasn’t standard drive thru restaurants that are disgusting.
My sister used to work at the subway near me, the owner is an asshole and everybody hates him.
Also my mom has a bakery in an old Subway and when we were cleaning, we found the grease trap completely full (about a 3 foot hole in the ground) and the wall where subways oven were was dripping yellow when I power washed it. Not to mention behind where the soda machine was, was completely black with mold.
Needless to say, I don’t eat at subway.
That’s the size of half a sandwich at Panera…you can clearly see it’s half a slice of bread and they literally have pictures of the sandwiches on their menu.
People buyin Panera in 2024 is wild to me lol, it’s fuckin awful in every way.
They don’t try to “make it look bigger”. That is the mental gymnastics you went through due to your annoyance.
Atlanta Bread Company was always superior. I’m still pissed Panera chased them out.
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News for ya, they dont do that to make it look bigger, they do that because they dont give a shit how much paper they use as it is often precut for all products during the shift.