Au Bon Pain — Restaurant in Indianapolis

ABP should be ashamed of their prices. Their landlords should be ashamed that they allow ABP to charge what they do considering the cafeteria doesn't open for dinner and therefore there are few other options for families and employees trying to find something decently healthy to eat. Your choices are to pay $10-12 for a rewarmed sandwich or $4 for a small bowl of salty soup. Or, you can pay by the pound for whatever they put on the "lunch bar" and has been sitting there since breakfast. The attached photo shows what I paid a little over 6 dollars for. The employees don't care - will ignore you standing at the counter, cover your sandwich in sauce while they wrap it up, then make you wait for 10 minutes standing at the cash register for one of the three employees behind the counter to come around to ring you up, despite the fact that all three made eye contact with you standing there. This wasn't once - this has been my and others' experience on multiple occasions.

I get that convenience comes at a price, but everyone in charge of this place...

Convenient if you're visiting in the hospital. I see a lot of complaining about the prices, but they're really about on par with Starbucks. I always got a large vanilla latte & my husband would get a large caramel macchiato, the total came to $8 and change. So take that for what you will. The breakfast sandwiches were one of the more reasonably priced food items, in my opinion. (Although I only drank coffee.)

My only criticism is that on one occasion the espresso maker was broken down so I got a regular vanilla iced coffee. Their house blend coffee is definitely not to either of our tastes and I was given SF syrup rather than regular. Ultimately, I poured the coffee...

So after reading many of the reviews I figured why not add mine. 1st I do love the food. They kind of remind me of Panera bread. 2nd The staff is friendly. I had a lady who didn't speak English well, but she got my order right! 3rd, maybe those of you with bad experiences expect way more than you should from a cafe?? SO on the the down side, I agree with the price complaints. Really? $8 for a salad that I know only cost you $.85 to make?? I'm sure Methodist IU charges you a hefty price to be in that spot, but making your food prices 100x the cost of making it.. sorry but not everyone that visits...