Panera Bread — Restaurant in La Mirada

I arrived before 6:30 am. There was 1 person tending the order counter. There was only 1 person in front of me. I waited about 2 minutes, a second person came and took my order at another register. She was very polite and thorough. I ordered the breakfast sandwich bacon eggs cheese. The bread it comes on is toasted and wonderful!! The cheese was flavorful. It was almost perfection. Yes "almost" the eggs are obviously precooked and are just warmed in the microwave/convection type oven they use. The eggs were tepid. So they were not cold, they were kind of a "room temperature ". I can only imagine how delicious this sandwich would be if the eggs were good and hot, and they caused the cheese to melt. The sandwich was good, but I think that is not what "Panera" was aiming for. The store looked clean and in good order. The nice lady that took my order was at the coffee station on my way out. She wished me a great day. That was a good touch. I think she was the person in charge....

I really feel like the menu lacks a lot of variety I got a turkey bacon club and it was such a disappointing sandwich came with nothing on it I had to dress it myself mustard mayo etc. Not a huge deal but what I'm paying for a sandwich and I say I want everything I would like them to make it for me especially when it costs more than a Subway sandwich. It didn't taste very fresh and was really bland. Kids sandwiches were as bare-boned as possible, I tried them as my kids didn't eat them and was disappointed.

Upon sitting down our table hadn't really been bussed. I found out how badly when my son sat on the ground in a pile of lemonade and napkins that I didn't notice initially. When we got our food it doesn't come to the table we had to go get it and I had to ask for help because I had too many plates.

I won't...

Especially bad service. For 2 days during rain customers overflowed the restaurant. This morning a manager walked up to my table and asked me to leave because I wasn’t a customer (I have the drink club membership.) today the Panera is empty and I was targeted at the empty Panera within a minute or 2 of walking in. She didn’t ask, she simply told me I had to leave.

Unfortunately I only walked in day 3x in a row bc the Carl’s Jr employee next to this location never gave my debit card back the day before and was actually unhelpful and difficult to return my card to me across the counter as it was in the cash box.

Behavior in combination, these people are thieves.

There’s other reviews about management being “manipulative” unaccountable, poor, rude. Wish Panera would...