Panera Bread Company Josiah Maroko Metropolitan State University Abstract Panera Bread Company is a leader in the easy casual restaurant industry with multiple cafe-bakeries located in 36 states, of the United States. Panera operates under the banner of Panera and Saint Louis Bread Company. Almost 400 of its 1,027 bakeries are company-operated and the remainders are franchisees. Panera Bread’s core competencies are in their market niche, offering a premium specialty
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Panera Bread Company’s Vision and Mission Statement During 1999, Panera Bread sold the Au Bon restaurants and began focusing solely on the growth of the Panera Bread restaurants. As the company attempted to expand their operations across North America, their vision and mission statement became an even larger part of the operations. However, the statement is vague and offers little guidance to the employees of the company. “A loaf of bread in every arm” is not only next to impossible to achieve
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Panera Bread Company is a national bakery-cafe with 1,504 locations across the US and Canada. This case study provides information regarding the past performance, current analysis, stock valuation, market evaluation, and industry comparison. In this analysis and case study, we hope you, the reader, will gain usable insight on Panera Bread and its value. We will give a recommendation to our readers according to our given information. Panera Bread is a chain of bakery-cafe quick service restaurants
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Panera Bread Company – History In 1978, Louis Kane purchased Au Bon Pain, a fast casual restaurant that focused on artisan breads. Kane merged Au Bon Pain with Ronald Shaich’s company The Cookie Jar in 1981. Au Bon Pain, looking to move away from their urban niche market, acquired the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993, a 19 store company with a more suburban marketplace. In 1999, after performing market research and studying their newly acquired bakery-concept, the company decided to sell Au Bon Pain
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Panera Bread Company has an exclusivity clause in their lease agreement with Shrewsbury shopping mall restricting them from leasing to another sandwich shop. Judge: Burrito not a sandwich, Sun Journal (Nov. 11, 2006), http://www.sunjournal.com/story/184707-3/NewEnglandNews/Judge_Burrito_not_a_sandwich. The Pita Pit is seeking to lease restaurant space in the Shrewsbury shopping mall. Id. Panera Bread Company is challenging the shopping center’s potential lease with The Pita Pit, claiming it violates
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PANERA BREAD COMPANY Introduction Panera Bread Company is the national bakery-café concept which operates in the casual restaurant industry. Founded in 1981 by Louis Kane and Ron Schaich, entirely it was registered as Au Bon Pain Co. with several chains. In 1999, the founders sold Au Bon Pain divisions and Panera bread1993. Currently, the company owns 1652 franchise stores in 44 states in United States and in Ontario, Canada The purpose of this essay is to identify and justify the important
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Organizational Analysis History Over the years Panera Bread has become a dominating force in the restaurant industry, from originating with the intention to be simply a bread company steered by the mission “A Loaf of bread in every arm” to emerging as a leader in the quick-casual business with 1,708 bakery cafes in 44 states and in Ontario, Canada. Today Panera Bread’s mission has evolved into “provide high quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We will conduct our business
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Case 8: Panera Bread Company in 2011—pursuing growth in a difficult economy This case study provides information regarding the past performance, current analysis, stock valuation, market evaluation, and industry comparison. In this analysis and case study, The following key elements comprise the Panera Bread strategy: 1. Capitalize on market potential by opening both company-owned and franchised Panera Bread locations as quickly as possible. Management planned to expand the number of Panera
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Panera Bread is a chain of bakery-café fast casual restaurants in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and operates as Saint Louis Bread Company in the St. Louis metropolitan area.Offerings include soups, salads, pasta, sandwiches, and bakery items.The store of St. Louis Bread was founded in 1987 when the first location was opened in Kirkwood, Missouri. Panera bread is the newer name for St. Louis Bread Company outside of the St. Louis area. In 1993
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What is Panera Bread’s strategy? Which of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What type of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? 1. Panera Bread's strategy involves creating fresh baked artisan breads made with special attention to quality and detail along with its many other products with an inviting dining experience. The closest generic competitive strategy approach Panera Bread
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