Panera Bread - Case Analysis June 10‚ 2010 Overview Panera Bread‚ also called St. Louis Bread Company was founded in 1981. Rated high as a bakery-café restaurant‚ they serve a variety of breads‚ soups‚ and salads. Panera is considered a “quick casual” restaurant offering sit-down dining and catering services. Panera Bread is now a publicly traded company with over 70 locations in 10 states and Company highlights include: * As reported by The Wall Street Journal‚ Panera Bread scored
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Case Brief Panera Bread Context Panera Bread is a chain of bakery-café fast casual restaurants in the United States that started out as Au Bon Pain Company in 1981 and was founded by Louis Kane and Ron Saich. The locations were mostly malls‚ shopping centers‚ etc. In 1993 APB purchased St. Louis Bread Co giving them 20 additional locations. During 1994 and 1995 market research concluded a need for quality dining which was fresh and fast. St. Louis locations went through major overhaul with
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In 1993‚ AU Bon Pain Company purchased the Saint Louis Bread Company. In 1995‚ top management at Au Bon Pain instituted a comprehensive overhaul of the newly-acquired Saint Louis Bread locations. The overhaul included altering the menu and the dining atmosphere. The vision was to create a specialty cafe anchored by an authentic‚ fresh-dough artisan bakery and upscale quick-service menu selections. This acquisition proved successful for Au Bon Pain. Between 1993 and 1997‚ average unit volumes at the
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Panera Bread PART A: INTRODUCTION: Company/Industry: Louis Kane and Ron Shaich founded a bakery-café called Au Bon Pain Company Inc. in 1981. The company grew and prospered through the 1980’s and 90’s. In 1993 the company purchased Saint Louis Bread Company which had 20 locations. Between 1993 and 1997 the company expanded with an additional 100+ Saint Louis Bread bakery-cafes opening throughout the States. In 1997 the company also changed the name of all Saint Louis Bread locations outside
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This paper is about Panera Bread Company and the strategy it employs to become the best brand name of fresh bread in the United States. Panera Bread specializes in providing fresh goods‚ made-to-order sandwiches‚ salads‚ soups‚ custom roasted coffees and other cafe beverages. The company generates revenues through three business segments: company bakery-café operations‚ franchise operations and fresh dough operations. The company’s bakery-café operations segment is comprised of the operating activities
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Panera Bread is widely spoken‚ advertised bakery/ cafe with a dish for any type of day. Panera has a large‚ healthy menu that is worth the cost and you’ll leave the cafe wishing you came sooner. Panera has transpired through many generations‚ and reformed their layout every sense Ron Shaich‚ founder‚ created the restaurant in the 1980’s‚ they called their restaurant e Au Bon Pain Co. Ron’s partner Louis Kane decided to change the bakery from just baking croissants and bread‚ to a high-end
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We grow accustomed to the dark... Darkness is a recurring image in literature that evokes a universal unknown‚ yet is often entrenched in many meanings. A master poet‚ Emily Dickinson employs darkness as a metaphor many times throughout her poetry. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” (#428) she talks of the “newness” that awaits when we “fit our Vision to the Dark.” As enigmatic and shrouded in mystery as the dark she explores‚ Dickinson’s poetry seems our only door to understanding the recluse
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Earth Batteries Dirt makes pretty good batteries. It seems like moist dirt packed tightly works the best. Add just enough water but not too much. I guess if the dirt dries up‚ you’ll have to water the batteries along with the rest of the plants. The soda can version works but I haven’t tested extensively. You don’t really have to use a penny‚ just has to be copper. Perhaps other common materials would work better. Each cell gives you a useless 0.5 volts. But if you link them in series you can
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