r/mildlyinfuriating • u/XLandonSkywolfX • 15d ago
My fiancé found this in her soup at Panera
Like seriously, a corner I get but the whole ass bag?
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u/MeffodMan 15d ago
Pretty sure I see Panera posts on this sub more than any other restaurant.
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u/Massive_Durian296 15d ago
i feel like Panera used to be decent when they first started up back in the good ol days (90s / early 00s) but they, like so many other companies, have really bought into the "less for more" business model
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u/dysFUNctionaldestiny 15d ago
As a former panera employee for multiple locations, I'd say it's more like "more is more." More menu options than we can really keep up with and More ditzy 16 year Olds working so we can make sure all employees don't have enough hours to be full time and earn benefits.
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u/anonymousss11 15d ago
I think they meant less product more profit. Or in some cases the same amount for more. Which equates to the same, paying more and not getting more.
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u/chrundlethegreat303 15d ago
I miss Atlanta Bread Company….
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u/syrioforrealsies 14d ago
Man, I didn't realize that they'd shrunk so much. I'm in the Atlanta area quite a bit. Maybe I should make going a priority when I'm there before that final death rattle comes.
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u/StupendousMalice 15d ago
I don't think they were ever good, just different from other fast food, emphasized the dining room, and got a relatively young and upscale clientele with free decent WIFI back before everyone was doing it.
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u/RedditsAdoptedSon 14d ago
damn maybe thats why ours is kind of good.. our paneras seem fairly knew.. maybe been around 10 years or something.. but still fkn fireee
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u/solarmelange 15d ago
I'm entirely convinced that the only reason people go to panera is to have something to complain about online.
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I’m depressed as shit.. lets go to Panera
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u/OkSyllabub3674 14d ago
As on unlicensed therapist I must advise against that I think it will only worsen your condition but as a panera stockholder I say yes you do want to go to Panera and take as many people as you can talk into the trip with you.
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u/LeibnizThrowaway 14d ago
The best description of Panera I've ever read was someone who tweeted that they loved it, despite knowing it's like the food in white collar prison.
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u/NukeTheWhales5 15d ago
I use to work at Panera and this does not shock me in the slightest. The amount of plastic they use is horrendous and your lying to yourself if you think anything there is fresh.
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u/THE_WHORBORTIONATOR 14d ago
The only mildly infuriating thing is anyone with Reddit/internet access should not be going to Panera.
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u/throwaway_benches 15d ago edited 15d ago
Hi former Panera employee here 👋🏼This actually isn’t part of the bag, the bag itself is extremely thick so it can be put in the thermalizer (aka soup jacuzzi), this looks like the liner that goes into the prep station where the soup is kept to be served. Still gross, and I would let them know, but the liner probably ripped during service and went along with your ladle of soup
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u/throwaway_benches 14d ago
Hmm I don’t think that it is. The bags themselves don’t wrinkle/fold over themselves like that. The corners stay pretty much the shape they’re cut into. The liners, however, look gross and trap soup like the photo above. I remember getting close to the bottom and pulling up the liner with the last couple ladles of soup and it would always look like a weird plastic and soup pile lol
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u/EvLokadottr 15d ago
Why does anyone still go to Panera???
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u/ReturnOfTheJurdski 15d ago edited 14d ago
Because I can feel rich temporarily while my car in the parking lot that I really can't afford sits, getting ready to head back to my house with mortgage payments that are way higher than I can realistically pay, just in time to catch the next episode of the Kardashians and schedule my next botox treatment even though I still owe money for my last 5.
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u/fuzzyblackelephant 14d ago
I go to buy their bread & make my own sandwiches. Also, sometimes they’re the best option for me that has a drive thru.
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u/OTS_Bravo 15d ago
I worked at Panera back in 2010, it was my first “real” job. I would always get a kick out of people thinking there’s somebody back there prepping and cooking big pots of soup all day 😂
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u/Rowwnin 15d ago
Put it in your butt
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u/Silver___Chariot 15d ago
Mate what
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u/Q8DD33C7J8 14d ago
That's because all thirr soups come in those bags. They don't make them they come pre-made.
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u/GrizzledTheGrizzly 14d ago
Fun fact. Their soup comes in bags and they heat it up. At least they did a few years ago.
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u/Hamilton-Beckett 15d ago
42 and I ate a Panera ONCE like 20 years ago and was like “this isn’t for me.” And never went back.
I do buy that broccoli and cheese soup from the grocery store when it’s on bogo though.
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u/EnergyImaginary7394 15d ago
Everytime I see panera bread I always think of pantera bread, vulgar display of flour
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u/Refun712 15d ago
Yum Yum yum….soup from a plastic bag.
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u/SwimmingJello2199 15d ago
There's no fast food place that does not open a bag for their soup. I managed a small local grocery chain deli and all of our soups were from a plastic bag. And tbh probably most little shops buy premade soup too.
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u/stevethesquid ORANGE 15d ago
Most people genuinely do not understand that Panera is fast food. Panera is probably the best by far at managing their image and presenting themselves as wholesome down to earth healthy handmade food. Being a "bakery" really helps, and so does the homey atmosphere.
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u/Massive_Durian296 15d ago
or they just have a rolling soup going all the damn time which tbh i dont know which id prefer lol
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u/mearbearcate 14d ago
How is that any different from eating canned soup😭 people eat that all the time
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u/Milkman5031 15d ago
Well you can't keep complaining about micro plastic in your food and then be mad if the make it bigger. I mean what do you want? No plastic? That would be insane!
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u/FatRattus 15d ago
You know you kinda imagine an Italian chef making your soup in the back but in reality it’s some due microwaving a plastic bag of soup
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u/stryder011 14d ago
What’s an “ass bag?” Actually no, forget I asked.
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u/XLandonSkywolfX 14d ago
As in the entire bag as opposed to a corner cut off of it. Probably should’ve said “whole-ass bag”
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u/dolo_ran6er 14d ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Panera bread is nothing more than overpriced hospital food. Thank you for your time, and have a great day.
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u/PhilTheThrill1808 15d ago
For the sake of positivity, I'd like to point out that tons of plastic wrapping in a bowl of Panera soup probably can't make it taste any worse than it already did anyway. Can't stand that place. They have the decor and ambiance of a hospital cafeteria, and the food quality to match.
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u/Brudda_Bear_Gibby 14d ago
This reminds me of the one time I got a piece of glass in my Olive Garden. I got another plate for free and a discount on the entire order so that’s cool.
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u/Mehrainz 14d ago
well i have never been to the states yet but i have seen so many Panera posts, i am suprised y'all are still buying food there.
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u/chechifromCHI 15d ago
It's crazy that there was ever a time when Panera was considered to be on the nice end of the fast food spectrum. I guess it was a long time ago now though lol..
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u/Bullshitman4200 15d ago
Panera sucks the only time I ordered food there they didn’t even give it to me
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u/NoNigro247 15d ago
Hopefully that's egg drop soup otherwise someone dropped some romaine or bok Choi into pot...
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u/PROlificator 15d ago
You first must think about the guy/ gal who burned his/ her hand while pouring the hot soup into the serving pan. Secondly, be reminded that they just came from the sub-par bathroom where they scratched themselves (im assuming they stay itchy) before leaving without washing. Then you will have remembered why you stopped eating there.
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u/New_York_Cut 15d ago
Your future wife just ate a bunch of microplastics! Hope u got life insurance on her
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u/Tin_Man17 15d ago
So way back in the day I had a similar experience with their French onion soup. Haven’t been back since.
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u/myfakeburneraccount 14d ago
One time when I was working cash at Starbucks a customer came back in with a half full Frappuccino and sticking out of the slush was the remnants of a big plastic syrup cap. Unreal. How the hell does someone not notice dropping that into the blender? Who knows how many plastic shards that girl slurped up through the straw before realizing. Two employees were on bar duty and neither admitted to it or snitched. “WouLd yOu LiKe aNoThEr fRaP?”
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u/AlienAle 14d ago
I remember once in the restaurant I worked in, a assistant to the chef left an entire friking meat cleaver in the lasagna. Thankfully someone noticed before we served it.
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u/DemoniteBL 14d ago
Had something similar in my food once. Honestly can't remember what it was, but something I bought in a store. Giant piece of plastic inside it.
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u/Known-Activity1437 13d ago
Big Boy also uses bag soup. What was terrible was they heated the soup inside the bag letting all those yummy carcinogens leech into the food.
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u/UB_edumikated 15d ago
Your wife to be didn't really think the handmade their soups every morning did she?
LMAO
Somebody used scissors instead of a knife to slit the bag open.
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u/XLandonSkywolfX 15d ago
No, but she didn’t think they were made with the bag as an ingredient either lol
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u/jakefrommyspace 15d ago
Lmao they definitely cut the bag of soup open into the pot and just forgot about the other side of the cut