Panera Bread — Restaurant in Greeley

Be careful if you have ALLERGIES when going to this location. I have ordered here for myself several times since moving here just a couple of months ago. I had my kids with me today (they spent the summer with relatives) while shopping and decided to stop in for lunch. My youngest has a bad milk allergy, he is 4. I ordered a salad with romaine lettuce, olives and the balsamic dressing for him. The cashier was amazing and even went over to the food station to alert them that my son has allergies and that it is specified no cheese and only the balsamic dressing on his salad. Myself and my two other sons all got Greek salads, so there was a lot of salad happening at our table. When I went to pick up the food the first thing I noticed was they gave my son yogurt so I had to have them switch that out right away. I went to the table and noticed my sons dressing looked like it had flecks of white. I was certain the dressing had no dairy but just in case I had my oldest daughter run back up to the food counter and verify there was no dairy. They checked the folder and sure enough, no dairy. At this point I think maybe I am paranoid because there isn't enough of the white to be cheese added to the salad so I dismiss it as some seasoning in the dressing. That was my mistake! Within five minutes my son had broken out into a red rash all over his face and was complaining of stomach problems. At this point I realize there was in fact cheese on his salad and it was my mistake for giving it to him, and he had eaten half the salad. The only thing I can think of was that the salad were all lined up (again we had 4 salads total) and the person making the salads must have grabbed some cheese with their hand and carried it over my sons salad because again there was hardly any, however my son has a severe allergy to milk so it does not take much to set him off. I would suggest this location point out these kinds of things to their staff with better allergy sensitivity training. I did not take the time to speak with anyone there because my 4 year old was not feeling good and there were major lines during the Saturday lunch rush the whole time I was there. Other than this, I have had no problems the other times I have visited and the food has...

⭐ 1/5 Stars - AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Save yourself both money and disappointment - stay far away from this Panera Bread location. What they're serving isn't food, it's highway robbery with a side of lettuce cores.

Ordered a $7 "smoothie" that turned out to be nothing but a cup of ice with a hint of flavor somewhere in there. Every attempt to drink it was a battle with the straw getting clogged by massive ice chunks. They must think their customers won't notice that they're basically selling overpriced ice water with food coloring.

The "fresh" ingredients? Let me tell you about fresh. My $13 sandwich and my husband's salad were stuffed with what can only be described as garbage-worthy lettuce ends - you know, the brown, tough cores that even rabbits would reject. We spent half our meal performing surgery on our food, picking out these inedible pieces. His half sandwich and soup combo was an eye-watering $17, which is what you'd expect to pay at a high-end restaurant, not for cafeteria-quality food.

For nearly $40, we could have eaten at a real restaurant. Instead, we got the privilege of paying premium prices for food that belongs in a compost bin. The only thing "artisan" about this place is their artful ability to separate customers from their hard-earned money.

Pros: Taught me a valuable lesson about wasting money Made me appreciate literally every other restaurant At least they're consistent in their terrible quality

Cons: Daylight robbery disguised as a restaurant Smoothies are essentially cups of ice with flavor whispered over them Lettuce cores galore - apparently they can't tell the difference between food and compost Prices that would make a luxury restaurant blush Portion sizes that would make a mouse feel cheated

Bottom line: If you enjoy throwing money away while picking through sub-par ingredients, this is your place. Otherwise, you'd get better value flushing your cash down the toilet - at least then you wouldn't have to pick lettuce cores out...

Chicken sandwich was pretty mid tbh and it cost something like $13, an egregious price point considering the extensive list of alternatives that exist as a result of the chicken sandwich's current saturation of the fast food industry. Assuming that the corporate level workers responsible for establishing prices at Panera are well-qualified for their jobs (and well aware of the fact that higher pricing tends to discourage consumers from purchasing a given product), the only reasonable explanation I can surmise for their decision to charge more than twice what competitors do for superior substitutes (with seemingly no regard for the highly competitive market for this product) is that those with the authority to do so decided that the perceived quality of Panera's products should not be communicated through any merits of their taste, but by the monetary value that they are assigned. To these villians I say, "Sheathe your swords and holster your firearms for your current strategies of attack are faltering! Despite those views which you may have come to consider irrefutably true, the overall enjoyment of my Panera meal was in no way elevated by its cost! Nay, this offensive characteristic contributed only to its detriment." Idk but i think u guys should try lowering your prices like pizza hut or something, they get that we in hard times rn...