Panera Bread — Restaurant in Plastow

Some call it Pantera Bread, others call it Paneer Bread. I call it Panoramic Bread, as their selection of menu items spreads out across the land as far as the eye can see.

Rivers of ice tea cut through valleys of lush salads, dotted with bread bowl lakes. Hills of muffins only overshadowed by their majestic counterparts, mountains of coffee drinks thrusting forth in the distance; whipped cream snow caps.

To the north, hand baked cookies are ladden by snowy powdered sugar. Look to the South now, where fresh loaves lay out, baking beneath the midday sun of a hearth. Eastward, vegetables -too many to name- swim through an endless soup sea, steaming. To the West, wild sandwhiches gallop across pizza prairies; the embodiement of freedom.

Life is good. All is Panera Bread. The sun sets over a perfect world. You rest your head on a chip bag pillow and dream of fountaim soda...

Just bought 2 turkey/avocado BLT sandwiches at the drive-thru. Now I'm home eating one. What. a. disappointment. Tomatoes are not even close to ripe; they're the palest orange color and I got most of the stem in one slice. Turkey isn't sliced but rather large chunks that don't cover half the bread and could cause choking - glad I noticed first. I'd prefer leaf lettuce for a BLT but have nothing against mesclun or other mixes, but this mix is limp and brown around the edges. The sourdough bread is completely soaked through, except for the crust, and my drive home was only 15 minutes. The bacon was limp and flabby. The only decent part was the avocado, and there was only a tiny slice of that. I basically took everything off, chopped up what was salvageable, and ate it like a salad. Probably 1/3 of the thing went in the trash, and I'm...

I am quite disappointed with this Panera Bread. My friend and I went there, and I went inside to get a green tea drink and a snack. Everything was fine, and the employees were friendly.

My friend is new to the area and walked around the outside of the property, getting some video of the building and talking about its history. He was on PUBLIC property. An employee came out and told him to leave (again, public property) or she’d call the police. He said no, and she called. The Plaistow police were very professional and said he was doing nothing wrong.

Then, as we were leaving, the employee kept coming out to her car to watch us. It was bizarre! Aside from my prior good service, Panera Bread should learn that they can’t kick someone out of a public area, and cameras (which they have in and on their building) isn’t going...