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Panera Bread is testing AI-powered bots at the drive-thru. Panera Bread Panera Bread is known as a restaurant pioneer when it comes to technology. The chain is working with tech startup OpenCity to test voice bot ordering at the drive-thru. OpenCity, which also works with Popeyes, says AI-powered bots can improve accuracy and speed. In […]
Panera is now delivering food across the US. CEO Blaine Hurst told Business Insider that most other chains are “playing catch-up” when it comes to delivery. Panera almost killed its delivery program during its original test in 2014. Now, 62% of Panera’s business is off-premise, which includes drive-thru, take-out, delivery, and catering. Panera is […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | RiverNorthPhotography) Eight months ago, Panera Bread was notified of a security flaw that was leaking customer information to anyone who knew where to look for it. But the company failed to fix the flaw until this week after the breach was made public in a report suggesting that it affected […]
Hollis Johnson Panera is acquiring sandwich rival Au Bon Pain. This is a reunion for the two brands, which were united under a single company in the ’80s and ’90s. Krispy Kreme and Keurig owner JAB Holdings acquired Panera for roughly $ 7.5 billion earlier this year. Panera is set to acquire rival sandwich chain […]
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Hollis Johnson Panera Bread just hit a major digital milestone. On Tuesday, the fast-casual chain announced it was on track to surpass $ 1 billion in digital sales, or sales made through kiosks, mobile, and web, in 2017. At the end of the first quarter, 26% of Panera’s sales were digital. Blaine Hurst, Panera’s president, said that figure […]
After speculation during the first half of the week, Panera Bread Company, a fast casual chain, announced on Wednesday that JAB Holdings Company, a German conglomerate, would purchase it for roughly $ 7.5 billion. JAB’s reasoning seems staightforward enough: the company has been snapping up coffee chains in the U.S. including Krispy Kreme, Peet’s Coffee […]
Hollis Johnson (Reuters) – JAB Holdings, the owner of Caribou Coffee and Peet’s Coffee & Tea, said on Wednesday it would buy U.S. bakery chain Panera Bread Co in a deal valued at about $ 7.5 billion, including debt, as it expands its coffee and breakfast empire. JAB Holdings offered $ 315 in cash per […]
Melia Robinson/Business Insider If the proprieters of a new West Coast restaurant chain get their way, the next iteration of the farm-to-table revolution might be what they call “sandwich environmentalism.” Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches uses ingredients that come from the company’s certified organic farms in Washington and California and other local farms. “Our idea is that if we thoughtfully curate every […]
