Panera Bread in San Jose

Great staff, good food. The problem this is a homeless hangout. The restaurant has blocked all but 3 wall outlets & people that have not purchased any food, basically hang out and are sleeping at the tables .Lunch for two came to $52.76, for that cost the place should be clean and free of freeloaders. We used to have weekly company meetings here but not any more $$ going somewhere else.* willing to pay more for clean environment and security.Will not be back.

I stopped here on the way to work for a simple cup of hot coffee at 7 pm. going through the drive-through. no cars in front or behind. I could see inside. There were only 2 people inside. after ordering, I drove to the pickup window. My coffee had just been set on the counter, but instead of giving the coffee to me, she walked away. another woman comes and starts mixing some chocolate and apparently is having a very good conversation with someone out of my sight. Its so good that she pays no attention to me waving and honking the horn. After about 4 minutes, she finally sees me, giving me my coffee and I pay . Then, as I took a drink of coffee, I discovered it was hardly even warm .

Monica is a gracious and informative hostess as well as friendly and exudes such a happy spirit as she assisted me with a small tour around the area for this being my First time. She showed me what drinks were allowed and how often on my Sip Club Card and graciously redeemed my items for me. Can I just say, WOW!! Monica, you have the whole customer service package and thank you so very much for making my day brighter! YOU ROCK!****** UPDATE *********The Charged lemonades are not filled as often as they should be, especially a Panera favorite The Passion Papaya Iced Green Tea. The last few times the containers sat empty.

If you want the best tasting frenchbread in the Peninsula . .Id even go the stretch to say the whole Bay Area, at least, in my opinion, and, Im a quarter Italian - having an appreciation for that, delicious, down-to-earth, good old-fashion tasting sour-dough french bread, I would pick Panera Bread. If some of you are not familiar, well, you can find them (the restaurants), just about everywhere.And I would rate them as just aboutthe friendliest chain as well. If I was going to select an eating place, as a mainstay of patrionizing, I would pick Panera.Reasons? They have a fairly varied food selection, to start with. If you started with say, a breakfast apetizer, they have a rather large choice of pastries. They even have their . . par excellance . . 11 x 11 box of assorted cherry and cream cheese pastries, which, I swear, just to look at, starts up those salivary glands, frightfully fast. You look at it and say, gee, I bet the office would love to dig into a nice box of pastries for the morning, eveyone is so busy, and on the run, I bet they would just love to grab a quick morsal of nourishing enjoyment, that would have to put a smile on just any - down-in-the dumpsters attitude, no matter how bad their day was going.And, you dont want to ponder this fortoo long, because the whole territorial mindset just might settle in, and you start thinking, gee (again), I could easily polish off one of these boxes just by myself. I mean, they really lookjust down right deluctable.The price? Just $11.99.The restarant, you could say, reallyspecializes in lunches for the afternoon crowd - though theyre open till 9 pm., and, theres a nice selection of hot soups - such as, basal, cream tomato, and, the broccoli/chedder - always been a favorite of mine. And, accompanied with a nice tall cup of strawberry-lemonade. Sound tatalizing? Trust me, it is! I just recently bought the bowl (and was big too), for just $7½ (with my dollar off as a member). It came with choice of chips, or bread. And, if youve never tried their broccoli/chedder . . I swear . . its to die for!Incidentaly, I mentioned earlier, abouthot. Now, seriously though, where can you find a restaurant that will serve you a piping hot bowl of soup?I remember back when I was a toddler . .hey! it wasnt that long ago!My aunt - whenever I asked her if she likes her coffee hot! Would, without exception, would sit there on her chair giving me a look, as if to say, now, what kind of question is that? And then staunchly exclaim, I like my coffee . . scaaaalding hot! Well, at Panera, you can actually make that happen, because every Panera has a microwave. How bout that!Panera, is generally always very clean, as well as their restroom, but, they do have a high turnover, so, dont be too hard on them, they actually do moniter things pretty closely.Seating is no problem, they havelots of cushiony booths, and, tables, and, in fact, the Panera at the corner of El Monte & El Camino, have a rather large outdoor pateo, with eating that is very nicely spaced apart, for those of you that might have a bit more of a secluded bent in mine.If you go to the Plant, (at the corner of Tully, and Monterey Rd.), there will be a Panera right there. The Plant, has a number of places to visit - Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, T-Mobil, Chase Bank, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, Krespie Kreames, Ross, Apple Bees, Famous Daves, and, more.Oh! Dont let me forget, but, if yousign up as a Panera member, rewards in food items will come your way. Ive been a member for years, and on one occasion, my reward was afree bagel, every day, for a month . . not bad, huh! Annnd, if you sign up online, you can have a free coffee every day. Now, where are you going to get a better deal than that??Panera is more specifically at:2199 Monterey Rd. The cross street, is Tully/Curtner. As I mentioned earlier, Panera is part of The Plant.

Standard Panera Restaurant. Decent good food, decent good service. Friendly staff. If Im going to eat fast food Panera is the way to go.

I have to leave this review, because Monica is just always so awesome, helpful and amazing every time my son and I come into this store - my kid is a teenager & even he said wow she’s super nice after we left, so I gotta leave a good review for her 😊Keep up the great work and positive attitude, Monica!! 💫

Filthiest Panera bread I have ever seen. Food caked everywhere even windows and doors floors filthy and the garbage is overflowing and hasn’t been wiped down in decades. Even the front door had a pile of garbage to wade through. The staff were all working hard so this is an owner issue. No pride in ownership. Hire more staff or give them some cleaning supplies.

2/11/23. Unlimited coffee. No coffee mug. Arrive early for various pastries. Afternoon have less pastry choices. Not crowded.

I came here for a quick weekday lunch. Theres nothing to rave about Panera Bread. The food and price is decent but Ive found that the portions have shrunk tremendously. I paid for a full size salad and the portion was comparable to the half size from years ago.

Panera seems to have increased their vegetarian choices, though they still have a very limited choice of both soups and sandwiches.They are also very expensive for what they are.