PANERA: We loved the original items! Instead of spending money on making more nonsense … spend money on ingredients and make the items heartier… like they used to be! I remember back in 2007 to like 2015, ordering soups and sandwiches for lunch and they were HEARTY and FILLING! Now, you spend a ton of money and are still hungry after eating your meal at Panera.
I've worked for panera for 24 years now and I whole heartedly agree with you on those cinna tops trust me we're all questioning our creative team that's coming up with new menu items but thank you for your honest review and if you guys could please complain enough about them removing the bagels and other cream cheese flavors I'd love you guys forever and tell them you guys want them Brittany's back as well 😂😂❤❤
They didnt make those right. As a manager of a location they made them wrong. It also is just a way for them to try to make us money from all their horrible decisions. The company is taking out on the employees.
@@mtnmagic1998 we are suppose to bake them first thing in the morning. From the freezer dough. 360 10 minutes 20 seconds steam, then again vent open for 10 minutes. Wait 30 minutes. Ice 2 at a time, top with the corresponding topping. Eight pieces. Chocolate cinnatop gets melted chocolate and some sea salt. Fudgetoo gets diluted icing. Candy one gets the candy cookie and 1 tbsp of candy pieces and white icing.
I haven’t eaten at a Panera in years. I definitely don’t see that changing anytime soon. Thank you so much for the review. I love your channel, I feel like you have saved me a lot of time and money so many times.
Those m&ms are made with no artificial colors, which is why they look weird, but also, the cookies are good and plenty sweet on their own without chopping them up and putting them on top of a bunch of icing and a whole damn cinnamon roll!
Those m&ms are actually more expensive then the "real brand" because they're naturally colored without all the red 40 garbage. I have a severe food allergy and all the natural coloring isn't as vibrant but are much more expensive due to better quality ingredients
Considering we have to actually pay for our healthcare in the U.S. it’s absolutely ridiculous to have single desserts with that many calories. We wonder why we pay so much a year? 😂 It’s because of all the sugar, just say no. Ashley took one for the team on those monstrosities. ❤
We’re definitely showing our age but I loved the “kinda hot in these rhinos” reference. 😂😂😂 I say that all the time and everyone looks at me like “okay grandma, time for your pills”
7:38 it’s not for everyone but i have a huge sweet tooth i usually get the kitchen sink cookie with the cinnamon roll and eat them together 😩😩😂😂😂 they made that for people like me the big back energy people 😂😂😂
Focaccia is pronounced with a hard c and it should be light and fluffy but with a decent amount of olive oil in and on it. It should also have large pockets of air from fermentation. I would never use focaccia for a sandwich though. Open sandwich max but a lot of the time it's used for dipping in balsamic and olive oil etc.
I worked at Panera for 5 years (2011 to 2016) and it’s had such a hard time figuring out who it is. An eternal identity crisis. Health, clean, then pizza and large sandwiches, some other eras, and now this.
i might’ve said this before but gurll the turkey bacon bravo is soo good to me lol w the avocado chipotle chicken salad for the pick 2 😍 it’s that tomato basil bread w thr sweet glaze they put on the crust of it i lovee
As a current/pass employee of Panera, them new pastries are giving “came up with when high”…. Because why?? All of those items are great and sell really well
I absolutely loved Panera’s old era from breakfast to lunch for 90% of the menu items and I am devastated that they retired that menu with the current nonsense 😢
I quit going to Panera when they got rid of the breakfast sandwiches w fresh eggs. They were the best!! Their prices have gotten way outta control too.
Also that double bacon sandwich… I’m sorry but for being double bacon, I would’ve expected more honestly! Panera will be the next restaurant to go… ppl just aren’t willing to spend that much money on soups that are mostly liquid and dry, empty sandwiches. Get it together Panera!
I used to work in a mall with a Panera in the strip & we ate lunch there all the time because they used to make beautiful fat sandwiches, I guess those days have passed it's probably been a decade since I've been there
That’s exactly what I think about focaccia bread 🍞 It’s so thick and doey and heavy like just non enjoyable at all. I can’t imagine someone liking that. For any reason.
I stopped going to Pantera years ago after they upped their prices, lost their quality, and sized down tremendously. In HS I could go to Panera and get an actual half panini with an true half salad for a reasonable price. Now you get a total of 6 bites between each and it's $25.
They are def just trying to come up with ways to not waste bakery items that are past their shelf life 😅 and the question really is “who are these for??” because I can’t imagine anyone ordering these
Overall seems like if you consider everything on menu there there are a lot misses on execution 😅so if work lunch order is there you better know the item on the menu that you can do😅
As someone who has worked there and at different locations and all the shifts haha I feel like it’s only certain paneras that be makin stuff half ass😂 or not well at all. Also I like the old menu it was much healthier for you and it was fresh… they losing themselves a bit .
All that thick bread will fill ya up at anytime. I'd have to do an open faced sandwich. Insane thinking those are acceptable cookies. Thanks Ashley for subjecting your tastebuds & stomach to.....😂. Happy Independence Day to you & wifey 🎉
So for me I get the breakfast steak sandwiches because I’m allergic to pork and can’t have sausage or bacon, so it works out to have a non pork option lol.
OH and the M&Ms are either off brand or to me they look like sunnydale farms “gems” which are the dye free ones I get, they have lighter colors and different color greens and blues.
Panera has fallen off soo much over the years. I miss when it originally came out and they had quality food such as the turkey artichoke sandwich made with good quality products. I miss the plain shortbread cookies and when I could go and by an actual fruit danish. All the desserts are loaded with chocolate, not everyone is crazy about just chocolate. The original people they had on board need to revamp the menu.
Their menu use to be top notch. The butter cookies, cherry and apple pastries, brownies. When they changed their chicken noodle in bread bowl from thick and creamy to watery. It just keeps sliding. Quit making up stuff and give me a great BLT, Veggie Sammie, or kick ass salad. Is that too much to ask.😮
As someone who used to be a baker at panera it looks like they are trying to to justify adding another cinnamon roll to their menu and compensate for costs by trying to combine it with as many existing extra menu items they have lying around😂
Restaurants charging outrageous prices need to do better or they’re going to start going out of business (even big chain restaurants). Everything is so stupidly expensive right now as it is. This big companies don’t think that they could ever go under but if everyone (rich or poor) would refuse to buy from some of these ridiculous restaurants, they would probably have a very rude awakening.
So as an honest member of the 4:20 club I think the “steak and wake” may perhaps be in reference to the old school “wake n bake” 😂 Also, thinking a little cup of country gravy to dip the breakfast sammies in would be the perfect bread lube ❤❤❤❤
I'm sorry, if I'm grabbing breakfast at a fast food place, I'm going to Taco Bell. I KNOW how that sounds but I promise you, the Cali Crunchwrap is so good.
Panera gives you dry ass bread, their chicken quality went downhill, and half the time they forget the sauce. They reuse the same 5 ingredients in 20 different items, and none of them are great. Make one solid good thing-not a million bad things.
Idk maybe those cinnamon rolls are an answer to the shops doing gourmet ones. Putting actual cookies on top was definitely a strange choice. Like idk why not do like m&ms or chocolate chips with frosting and penuts or something. That could work. This not so much.
PANERA: We loved the original items! Instead of spending money on making more nonsense … spend money on ingredients and make the items heartier… like they used to be! I remember back in 2007 to like 2015, ordering soups and sandwiches for lunch and they were HEARTY and FILLING! Now, you spend a ton of money and are still hungry after eating your meal at Panera.
Been saying this forever! Panera used to be so good!
All of that bread looks dry AF, they could at least give you a free drink with that crap-to help wash it down
I've worked for panera for 24 years now and I whole heartedly agree with you on those cinna tops trust me we're all questioning our creative team that's coming up with new menu items but thank you for your honest review and if you guys could please complain enough about them removing the bagels and other cream cheese flavors I'd love you guys forever and tell them you guys want them Brittany's back as well 😂😂❤❤
They removed the bagels and cream cheese??? Whaaaat?!
@@au_barb I meant the good bagels I'm sorry
Cinnamon crunch bagel with hazelnut cream cheese was my absolute favorite guilty pleasure back in the day!!
@cswish4525 it's been years since I lived near a Panera but blueberry bagel with honey walnut cream cheese was my fave.
When will places learn that NO ONE WANTS DRY BREAD! It doesn't make sense to have thin filings/toppings paired with thick, dry bread.
I worked as a baker for Panera for two years and the MnMs are all naturally colored with veggie food dyes . They're healthy
They didnt make those right. As a manager of a location they made them wrong. It also is just a way for them to try to make us money from all their horrible decisions. The company is taking out on the employees.
Could you share with us how they're supposed to be made please? I'm curious.
@@mtnmagic1998 we are suppose to bake them first thing in the morning. From the freezer dough. 360 10 minutes 20 seconds steam, then again vent open for 10 minutes. Wait 30 minutes. Ice 2 at a time, top with the corresponding topping. Eight pieces. Chocolate cinnatop gets melted chocolate and some sea salt. Fudgetoo gets diluted icing. Candy one gets the candy cookie and 1 tbsp of candy pieces and white icing.
@wwoods97 Thanks, appreciate it!
@@wwoods97I hope she sees this
@@SuzieQ-lw2kp hell I'll give her a panera apron and any recipes she wants.
I love you give us your honest review.
Ash said if there is supposed to be double bacon, we gonna count the bacon! 😂
At damn near $7 each, I think the Kitchen Sink cookie is what’s helping keep Panera afloat
Fr. I just use my free reward for my bday on that. Its really the only time I go now
My mom: "I want foo foo hospital food for lunch"
Me: "ok Panera it is" 😂
I haven’t eaten at a Panera in years. I definitely don’t see that changing anytime soon. Thank you so much for the review. I love your channel, I feel like you have saved me a lot of time and money so many times.
looks dry (the dense bread sandwich)
I love your honest reviews and don’t hold back..how open you are to try anything and just go what you think about it.
Those m&ms are made with no artificial colors, which is why they look weird, but also, the cookies are good and plenty sweet on their own without chopping them up and putting them on top of a bunch of icing and a whole damn cinnamon roll!
I was giggling so hard when you got to the cookie cinnamon thing. Yeah, the sweets look nasty as hell. 😂
That first sammy looked dry af!!!
Those pastries just look like a quick thrown together Gen z cash grab 😂 wasn’t Panera supposed to be the healthier choice??? I guess not anymore
Panera bread is not getting anymore of my coins. I have been disappointed way too many times 😢
Just looking at the menu gave me a sugarrrrush 🤣🤣🤣
That Cinnascramble felt like a huge insult to us Cinnamans 🧐🤢🤭🤣
There is no way they market tested those cinna-monstrosities. They look absolutely revolting. I can’t imagine any normal person ever ordering them.
I love your channel, Ashley! You always crack me up! 😂
I know this is a reach, but could you share your curly hair routine sometime??
I love ur videos !! ❤ thank you for making my days ❤
Those m&ms are actually more expensive then the "real brand" because they're naturally colored without all the red 40 garbage. I have a severe food allergy and all the natural coloring isn't as vibrant but are much more expensive due to better quality ingredients
The sausage cinnascramble is like a sausage McGriddle. I love, love, love! 🥰
I work at a Panera and I am not excited to be selling those pastries. They look thrown together for a quick buck 🤦♀️
“Bread lube" 😂😂😂
Considering we have to actually pay for our healthcare in the U.S. it’s absolutely ridiculous to have single desserts with that many calories. We wonder why we pay so much a year? 😂 It’s because of all the sugar, just say no. Ashley took one for the team on those monstrosities. ❤
We’re definitely showing our age but I loved the “kinda hot in these rhinos” reference. 😂😂😂 I say that all the time and everyone looks at me like “okay grandma, time for your pills”
7:38 it’s not for everyone but i have a huge sweet tooth i usually get the kitchen sink cookie with the cinnamon roll and eat them together 😩😩😂😂😂 they made that for people like me the big back energy people 😂😂😂
one of my best friends works at panera and every time we go and see her she gives me free cookies!!
Back in the day, I thought Panera was a pretty decent pastry maker outside of an authentic pastry shop, but now........meh!
Their regular cinnamon rolls are amazing. With these... it's like they asked a kid what they'd like on a cinnamon roll and went with it.
Not beavo💀💀💀that killed me lmao😭
Focaccia is pronounced with a hard c and it should be light and fluffy but with a decent amount of olive oil in and on it. It should also have large pockets of air from fermentation. I would never use focaccia for a sandwich though. Open sandwich max but a lot of the time it's used for dipping in balsamic and olive oil etc.
Those eggs can be cooked medium , they come out of a pre mixed carton
I used to work for panera and part of their "clean ingredients" included natural food dyes. That's why the m&m's might look off.
I feel like all Panera sandwiches always lack “bread lube” 😂
McDonald's have the best steak egg and cheese fast food breakfast sandwich. You should really try it. Great video
That game me a stomach ache lookin at it 😮
If you order the cinnamon roll things, don’t be surprised if the doctor yells “KOBE!!” When he throws your feet in the trash 😂
I ALWAYS add chipotle aioli to my Panera breakfast sandwiches - there’s no other way.
I worked at Panera for 5 years (2011 to 2016) and it’s had such a hard time figuring out who it is. An eternal identity crisis. Health, clean, then pizza and large sandwiches, some other eras, and now this.
i might’ve said this before but gurll the turkey bacon bravo is soo good to me lol w the avocado chipotle chicken salad for the pick 2 😍 it’s that tomato basil bread w thr sweet glaze they put on the crust of it i lovee
As a current/pass employee of Panera, them new pastries are giving “came up with when high”…. Because why?? All of those items are great and sell really well
I love your Turtle water bottle. Thank you for reviewing the new items.
To much bread to chew in the morning. 😂. All those sweets are gross.
I absolutely loved Panera’s old era from breakfast to lunch for 90% of the menu items and I am devastated that they retired that menu with the current nonsense 😢
The Kitchen Sink cookie from Panera is the F'in Bomb though
I quit going to Panera when they got rid of the breakfast sandwiches w fresh eggs. They were the best!!
Their prices have gotten way outta control too.
Also that double bacon sandwich… I’m sorry but for being double bacon, I would’ve expected more honestly! Panera will be the next restaurant to go… ppl just aren’t willing to spend that much money on soups that are mostly liquid and dry, empty sandwiches. Get it together Panera!
Bring back the coffee cake, Panera bread
Not the Beavo bite 😂 😂😂
I used to work in a mall with a Panera in the strip & we ate lunch there all the time because they used to make beautiful fat sandwiches, I guess those days have passed it's probably been a decade since I've been there
What is happening at Panera?? They've lost their way.
That’s exactly what I think about focaccia bread 🍞
It’s so thick and doey and heavy like just non enjoyable at all.
I can’t imagine someone liking that. For any reason.
Look. Panera has not been the same, IMO,
when they got rid of their sliced turkey, artichoke, sandwiches back in the early-mid 2000’s.
I stopped going to Pantera years ago after they upped their prices, lost their quality, and sized down tremendously. In HS I could go to Panera and get an actual half panini with an true half salad for a reasonable price. Now you get a total of 6 bites between each and it's $25.
They are def just trying to come up with ways to not waste bakery items that are past their shelf life 😅 and the question really is “who are these for??” because I can’t imagine anyone ordering these
I love you!! I’m laughing out loud rn 😂
That first cinnamon roll cookie thing looks like a mess up from Santa’s workshop, a failed Christmas treat
It’s only going to get worse. They fired all the bakers in my area to switch to frozen bread.
Just give me an omelet with lots of veggies and cheese, bacon or sausage on the side. Home fries with LOTS of onion cooked with them.
McGriddles are good and that’s very similar with the cinnamon roll
Overall seems like if you consider everything on menu there there are a lot misses on execution 😅so if work lunch order is there you better know the item on the menu that you can do😅
As someone who has worked there and at different locations and all the shifts haha I feel like it’s only certain paneras that be makin stuff half ass😂 or not well at all. Also I like the old menu it was much healthier for you and it was fresh… they losing themselves a bit .
Those breads look so dry. I've come to the conclusion that Jewel's bagels are better than Panera 😂
I died at the m&m comment 😭
All that thick bread will fill ya up at anytime. I'd have to do an open faced sandwich. Insane thinking those are acceptable cookies. Thanks Ashley for subjecting your tastebuds & stomach to.....😂. Happy Independence Day to you & wifey 🎉
WHERE did you get that ninja turtles shaker bottle??? I need one!!
So for me I get the breakfast steak sandwiches because I’m allergic to pork and can’t have sausage or bacon, so it works out to have a non pork option lol.
OH and the M&Ms are either off brand or to me they look like sunnydale farms “gems” which are the dye free ones I get, they have lighter colors and different color greens and blues.
I just feel the bread outweighs the meat and egg in all the breakfast items.
Panera has fallen off soo much over the years. I miss when it originally came out and they had quality food such as the turkey artichoke sandwich made with good quality products. I miss the plain shortbread cookies and when I could go and by an actual fruit danish. All the desserts are loaded with chocolate, not everyone is crazy about just chocolate. The original people they had on board need to revamp the menu.
The last one looked like a kid threw candy on them
Their menu use to be top notch. The butter cookies, cherry and apple pastries, brownies. When they changed their chicken noodle in bread bowl from thick and creamy to watery. It just keeps sliding. Quit making up stuff and give me a great BLT, Veggie Sammie, or kick ass salad. Is that too much to ask.😮
That first cookie thing with the cookies, icing and dollar store m&m’s looks unappetizing and just thrown together. I wouldn’t be able to eat that 🫣🫣🫣
The beetus breakfast menu… its sugartastic
As someone who used to be a baker at panera it looks like they are trying to to justify adding another cinnamon roll to their menu and compensate for costs by trying to combine it with as many existing extra menu items they have lying around😂
The golden age of Panera rocked. My friends used to enjoy going there for lunch. Now nobody wants their poor quality overpriced food.
Restaurants charging outrageous prices need to do better or they’re going to start going out of business (even big chain restaurants). Everything is so stupidly expensive right now as it is. This big companies don’t think that they could ever go under but if everyone (rich or poor) would refuse to buy from some of these ridiculous restaurants, they would probably have a very rude awakening.
Im not a breakfast person ,so yes to steak in the AM haha
Yeah, stopped going to Panera a long long time ago. Prices there killed me. This new menu is not going to win me back.
The only time I eat steak for breakfast is on the steak egg cheese bagel from McDonald’s breakfast 😋🤷🏻♀️
Sweets for breakfast:
Almond or chocolate croissant or
Apple Ugly.
No way of get any of those new Panera "breakfast" sweets.
Always love a new video, watch your face!
They need to return to their original nenu 20 years ago
Agree!! It’s just not good anymore
Cinnamon roll Sammie looks delish❤❤❤
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks a dessert can be gross simply because it’s too sweet
So as an honest member of the 4:20 club I think the “steak and wake” may perhaps be in reference to the old school “wake n bake” 😂
Also, thinking a little cup of country gravy to dip the breakfast sammies in would be the perfect bread lube ❤❤❤❤
eating out at any level is no good anymore. So sad....I'm ALWAYS disappointed....make eating out great again, please!!!
THEY RETIRED THE GREEN GODDESS SANDWICH 😭😭😭 only good sandwich they had in my opinion
I'm sorry, if I'm grabbing breakfast at a fast food place, I'm going to Taco Bell. I KNOW how that sounds but I promise you, the Cali Crunchwrap is so good.
Those cookie bun monstrosities look like it tastes like Too Much.
I could be wrong but I think the steak and wake is supposed to be a play on wake and bake not steak and shake but idk
Panera gives you dry ass bread, their chicken quality went downhill, and half the time they forget the sauce. They reuse the same 5 ingredients in 20 different items, and none of them are great. Make one solid good thing-not a million bad things.
Why do the pastry cookies not smell good?? This is a problem lol 😂
6:37 I can confirm thats exactly what my shits look like after not drinking any water
That's gross, really! She ate something that tasted like cow shit, I would think a pastry would be preferable.
Idk maybe those cinnamon rolls are an answer to the shops doing gourmet ones. Putting actual cookies on top was definitely a strange choice. Like idk why not do like m&ms or chocolate chips with frosting and penuts or something. That could work. This not so much.
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Love your videos!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
It's a quarter loaf actually LOL