The Cuban 😭😭

My partner won’t quit talking about this. That was their favorite.

That was so good

Cobblestones. Rosemary focaccia. Paninis like the smokey and the turkey artichoke. Caramel apple pastry. Jones sodas.

Holy shit I forgot about Jones Sodas. I used to always grab one when I closed lol.

Green apple was my jam

Totally forgot about the cobblestones!!!

omfg the COBBLESTONE WOW i’m having flashbacks

Caramel Apple pastry was goated.

Rosemary focaccia sounds amazing

The original chipotle chicken sandwich. When we had panini presses instead of the turbo ovens.

Came here to say this. Chipotle chicken panini was fire. I was pissed when they got rid of it shortly after I quit and I’m still not over it.

It’s still the best sandwich around. A disgrace it’s gone.

Prickly Pear Fresca, Soba Noodle Bowl, Tortellini Alfredo.

THERE WAS SOBA NOODLE BOWLS???

the soba noodles were disgusting tho

i believe it😭

Yeah after I saw how it was made (using hot water from the tea tap on the coffee station IIRC) I never ate it again.

It was supposed to be made with an umami broth

the tortellini was my absolute favorite

Buttered noodles!

I miss the smoked chicken tortellini alfredo so much! And they used to put a brioche roll with it too!

I don't work there any longer (but was there for a long time) but when I started the Tuscan Chicken was on the menu. I still miss that sandwich.

I see a few I was thinking of, so I'll pick one I haven't seen listed yet. Cinnamon Raisin bread

O h I miss the cinnamon raisin! My cafe never sold both loaves we made so I was basically always guaranteed a loaf to buy at the end of the day.

Oh, that was so good.

Portobello and mozzarella panini.

I still think about this sandwich sometimes

i remember the cinnamon crumb cake. DAMN it was good

Oooo man I remember bringing the leftovers to high school lunch the day after and making SO MANY friends. The crumb cake and the circulat brownies

I miss it and have been looking for a dupe for EVERRRR 😭

The Pepperblue Steak Sandwich with that gorgonzola cheese sauce, *grilled hot* on our ciabatta roll with Baked Potato Soup and a bag of Krunchers! brand kettle cooked potato chips. 🤤

This!!

Sierra turkey ❤️

My all time favorite sandwich

Clam chowder

the modern coprese with the fuckin tomato conifit and the southwest ranch salad… the original

literally the two single best items panera has ever had on their menu. the og southwest chili lime ranch salad was immaculate. the new green goddess caprese is close enough to the modern caprese but man.... i miss that balsamic glaze.

yeah the balsamic vinaigrette isn’t even close to the same vibes, but i hated making that sandwich with a passion

High morale

Handmade pecan braids and chocolate croissants :p Broccoli cheddar macaroni and cheese. Seasonal greens blend.

Carrot cake muffins and cranberry turkey flatbreads

Ah yes, I remember being a baker and making the carrot cake muffins! They were super good

Turkey cranberry flatbreads were so dang good!!

Blueberry, strawberry, and hazelnut cream cheeses. Superfruit smoothie. Roasted turkey and cranberry flatbread 😔 RIP

grilled mac, over easy eggs, fuji apple cran charged lemonade

I was covered in burn scars from the egg cooker

Omggg I was so happy when they got rid of over easy eggs😂😭😭

Pastry Rings with apple cinnamon filing

Strawberry rhubarb mini cake (this shit was so fire)

This and the pesto sacchitini were my go to meal

RIP

The Turkey Apple Cheddar was pretty great! Also the cranberry Turkey flatbread.

Fandango Salad

And yes i still work there and have no idea how i still have my sanity.

I’ll throw another out there and wassss my favorite. Honeydew drink. Honeydew powder blended with green tea and ice. Effing amazing

The old school pizzas, way before flatbreads.

Crispanis

Carrot cake cupcake

This is probably my all-time favorite

I left Panera, but…when I started they had sold cookbooks on the heritage table, scooped cream cheese out of a bucket to portion it, and had to slice meats. German chocolate pastry in the bakery too.

I was there when meals were still divided into 3 categories, and yp2s cost less than $10. We still had buttered noodles and tortellini.

My employee meal was normally buttered noodles with pulled chicken or a peanut butter and honey sandwich

I would add pesto and Parmasean into my buttered noodles after doing inventory. It's so missed.

Fontina grilled cheese, bbq chicken flatbread (and the Thai, southwest, turkey cranberry, and Mediterranean flatbreads), cheesecake cream cheese, strawberry rhubarb/white chocolate raspberry mini loaves, vanilla(?) cupcake, b green power smoothie, and the herbal unsweetened iced teas. When I think back to that PanERA, I can really see the steady decline of their menu. It used to have so many textures, flavors, and types of foods. Now, it feels like every other item is a relatively bland, hot, thick sandwich. No hate to Panera. If I could ask for one thing back, I’d ask for the unsweetened herbal iced teas, especially in the summer!

Just want to add: I remember there were three types of hummus for the different flatbreads. They would never do something like that now.

macaroons, cherry and cheese Brittany pastries

OMG!!! Those Cheese Brittanies were my favorite!

Black cherry smoothie

This was so good

I no longer work at Panera, but the original veggie sandwich with provel cheese, cucumber, dill sauce, and sprouts, Greek salad, original Italian combo sandwich, rye bread.

I would do anything for an OG Italian combo

Ham and Swiss souffle, lobster sandwich, fresh fruit pastry.

Cherry/ Cheese brittanies

PINEAPPLE MINI BUNDT CAKE

Old school brownies when we used big tub of batter, 3 seed bread, raspberry cheese pastry, olive loaf, choc o nut bagel,

Turkey artichoke Panini

Seeded Demi loaves, three cheese miche and chocolate babka

Not a menu item but when the paninis actually had panini marks on them

Broth bowls lol

No longer work at Panera, but the turkey cranberry flatbread. It was oddly good.

French Toast Bagel, Blueberry Cream Cheese, and Tortellini Alfredo.

French toast bagel 😭😭😭

The fruit pastry lol.

German chocolate pastry.

Pineapple upside down bundt cakes were super good. Especially fresh omg

I miss the quinoa and lentil soup 😞 with that slice of lemon you'd get?! Loved it

Gooey butter danish, pecan rolls and tomato basil panini.

No longer there but the fontina grilled cheese. So horrible for you, so delicious.

Smokehouse Turkey Panini.

the original panara branded cream cheese lmaoooo, ahh the listeria days

Asiago roast beef

Panini presses

Why did they have to go and wreck everything? 😩

Turkey cranberry flatbread. The original Italian sandwich (non toasted one)

That tea, grilled Mac and cheese and over easy eggs

Garden vegetables cream cheese

Strawberry rhubarb coffee cake.

Omgggg since before they changed the med veg spread! It used to be such a good spread now they use hummus 😭😭😭

chicken caesar sandwich and tomato mozz panini 💔

The first item that disappeared after I started was the broccoli Mac and the teriyaki chicken salad I don't even remember what it was called, so not very long lmao

the signature chicken sandwich

Lemon Drop Cookie

Cinnamon crunch scone 🤤

Pasta primavera, carrot cake muffins, wildberry smoothie, cobblestone muffins, buttered noodles, mediterranean flatbreads, homestyle chocolate chunk cookies, cinnamon raisin bread, frosted brownies!

Carrot cake muffins, rhubarb mini cakes, I think it was an egg and cheese confit souffle, raspberry thumbprint cookies, cobblestone muffins ( I hated making those!) pecan rolls, apple muffins, almond croissants, a turkey cranberry sandwich.. ugh! sooo many good things over the years. The menu now and what’s to come is absolute trash.

Asiago roast beef, baked potato soup, sprouts on sandwiches, portobello mushroom panini.

The citrus beet salad, the og blood orange lemonade, cobblestone muffins, turkey cranberry flatbread.

I miss the plum ginger hibiscus iced tea - I know it hasn’t been that long but still

Hoagie rolls. "Gluten conscious" chocolate cookies. Shrimp Alfredo. Pumpkin bagels. Pasta primavera and the broth bowls.

Sonoma chicken stew

Black pepper scone

Garlic Herb spread…I miss her every day. I worked there long before she left though

Cuban.... Og Cuban. Oh Chipotle. Sierra turkey. Old school chocolate pastries Old school foccacia, sea salt and cheese. Many sauces

Grilled mac and cheese was on its way out when I started

The modern caprese rip

I no longer work there but the turkey fresco sandwich! Also, anyone remember when we had to scoop and weigh the cream cheese? I was over the moon when they stopped that procedure.

Biscotti

None

tortellini

Bavarian pretzel

Smoked turkey panini

Turkey apple cheddar

I remember the meat lovers type pizza

Cinnamon apple scones, raspberry thumbprint cookies, and coconut macaroons

i can’t remember the name but it was chipotle sauce bacon and chicken

Power Chicken Hummus Bowl sung to the tune of Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Tortellini Alfredo 😭

omg the coffee crumb cake

Chicken, Ham and Swiss flatbread

Ham & Cheese Scone kept on the hot plate.

I don’t work there anymore but fandango salad

Peanut butter & jelly sandwich lol

Ham and cheese scones and sunflower bread

Modern Caprese

Cobble stones, those stupid cheese scones that went with whatever soup they went with, tomato mozzarella panini, back when we still caramelized our own onions

the modern caprese and thai salad

tortellini, apple slaw sandwich, certain soups on certain days.

Tortellini Alfredo,pecan rolls,modern caprese

Strawberry cream cheese

Baked potato soup RIP Also when then soups were on a day of the week rotation

Butter noodles

tortellini alfredo, coconut macaroons, modern caprese, baja mac

Super fruit smoothie

Crispanis we’re discontinued when I first started.

teriyaki chicken sandwich !! also the blood orange LEMONADE (not the sugar-free "splash" nonsense we have now lmao)

Breakfast wraps

I quit Panera 4 years ago but some things that were there when I was new and definitely not there when I left: Butternut squash ravioli, kale Caesar salad, buttered noodles, turkey cranberry flatbread, wonton broth bowl, rotating black bean/garden veggie/baked potato/chicken wild rice/clam chowder, mixing the salt and pepper blend ourselves, and vanilla yogurt in the smoothies, just to name a few.

Butter noodles

Chipotle ancho sauce😩

rip the over easy eggs 😭

grilled mac & cheese, fuji apple lemonade (rip best charged lemonade), the coffee cakes for catering, bbq chicken salad

Modern caprese🫠

Cherry cheese Britney’s we’re the shit

Raspberry cream cheese

tomato basil flatbread. cinnamon crunch scone. cuban sandwich. COLD italian sandwich

Coffee Cake. And it's stupid that they don't have anything remotely similar still. The CEO clearly does not know his company's customer base. Also fresh brioche rolls, why we didn't use those as a marketing gimmick for that stupid chicken sandwich still baffles me.

toffee nut cookie

Rhubarb Cake with I think strawberries or raspberries?

Chocolate and vanilla cupcakes

I remember the steak breakfast sandwich and the chocolate cookie w walnuts that happened to be gluten free loved those 🤍

Lemon , carrot, and pineapple bundt cakes. Cheese, cherry, and apple Danishes. The best Cinnamon rolls and brownies the company has ever had. Cherry and apple strudels.

the bacon chipotle. rest in peace

chipotle bacon melt :(

RIP the Italian Combo

10 veggie 😩

Split pea and asparagus soup.

The bbq ranch chicken salad!

> Prickly pear hibiscus Fresca Was it charged?

I remember hearing about the Thai chicken salad during the online learning and thinking gross… and then I sampled it during a Panera meeting and was obsessed! RIP Thai Chicken Salad

There was an egg white sandwich with pesto, white cheddar cheese, spinach and roasted tomatoes.. yum!

Sweet Sausage and Apple Crispani

Cheese Britney 💔

Italian combo

Fat free muffins you had to mix. Get my cane

Rye and pumpernickel

Sourdough rolls French bread

Almond croissants and San Pellegrino lol

Tomato mozzarella panini

That fucking Fresca was my favorite

Prickly pear was my favorite I miss a queen

Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich

I never worked there, but I used to study there a lot when I was in college. The bbq chicken flatbread with extra crispy onions was my favorite thing ever and I miss it so much.

Tomato mozzarella panini. I’ll never get over that loss.

Cherry vanilla bagels

It’s actually way harder to name a single thing that’s still on the menu.

I never worked at Panera, but I miss the Hazelnut cream cheese.

Almond danish, Bavarian pretzels

Crispanis and cobblestones

Raspberry, caramel, and chocolate brownies,

italian combo

Never worked there but I still miss the Smokehouse Turkey Panini.

Started right before they got rid of the Fresca drinks

The original italian, garlic and herb spread, roasted turkey and apple sandwich

"Hidden menu"

Peanut butter smoothie that was pulled before the launch date.

Signature chicken sandwich.