January 8: Panera Bread

Dining Out, Food, Project Food 2015

I wasn’t going to consider this a meal at first, and I don’t know that I still do, but it was such a failed attempt that it’s no great loss to us if we can’t eat here for the rest of the year.
https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/home.html
Chris and I went to Panera Bread for breakfast after dropping his car off to get serviced.  We ordered:

1) Four Cheese Souffle (Chris)
2) Spinach and Bacon Souffle (me)
3) B-Green Power Smoothie
4) Cinnamon Crunch Bagel

Within 5 minutes of sitting down and a lot of confusion, they brought over our bagel and one souffle and let us know they don’t have anymore Spinach and Bacon Souffles.  Chris looked at the souffle on the table and lo and behold!  It was a Spinach Bacon one.  So the guy goes back to check and informs us that they actually don’t have the Four Cheese Souffle.  Ohhh Lordy.  The Four Cheese Souffle is Chris’ favorite and pretty much the only one he’ll eat.

The rest of the meal was spent much deflated because this wasn’t the first time nor in the first state that Panera has failed us.  We had finished eating and I had been staring at my smoothie on the pick-up counter for 15 minutes.  The servers are supposed to bring your food to your table.  They have fancy GPS trackers for that purpose, but no one brought me my drink.  Finally fed up, we just left and I grabbed my smoothie off the counter myself, not bothering to explain to them just why we hated them so much at that moment.  Really Panera Bread, pull yourself together.  No lost love here, ’til next year Panera!

P.S. The smoothie sucked.