Au Bon Pain, every mention

Panera Founder Ron Shaich Nov 11, 2025 · 24 mentions

• ▶ 0:03 Ron Shaich I was part of building bakery cafes in America between Au Bon Pain, Panera.
• ▶ 8:15 Shane Parrish With the wisdom that you have now, looking back and, and building Au Bon Pain and Panera, which I want to get into in detail, do you wish you would have placed more of an emphasis on your health back then?
• ▶ 18:15 Ron Shaich That cookie store led to, um, an opportunity to become involved in another company called Au Bon Pain. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 21:54 Ron Shaich By 93, Au Bon Pen was beginning to run out of organic growth, and the one thing, if you're in a public company, and I've been involved in any number of public companies, most of its valuation is generated by its possibility of growth, and… 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 30:18 Ron Shaich Au Bon Pain, Au Bon Pain Manufacturing, Au Bon Pain International, and this fourth division, St. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:45 Ron Shaich You can figure out where that comes from, Obonpan, Panera, and now Act III Holdings.
• ▶ 48:21 Shane Parrish Let's go back to the Au Bon Pain IPO just for a second, because I remember you talking about how it changed everything for you, and you didn't anticipate having all these new constituents or people breathing down your neck, and the, the…
• ▶ 1:07:07 Ron Shaich I was part of building bakery cafes in America between Au Bon Pain, Panera.
• ▶ 1:14:11 Shane Parrish How do you develop the long-term thinking that you've brought to all these different concepts from Au Bon Pain to Panera to Cava?
• ▶ 1:18:17 Shane Parrish Enough attention, and this is something I think you're open to talking about, is, um, the difficulties of running a business, the costs of running a business, the family costs, the social costs, the, talk to me about that with Au Bon Pain…
• ▶ 1:25:14 Shane Parrish From high, you know, 30,000 feet to the one inch level, and anything in between is the sign of somebody who's really involved in, in the details, getting first-hand information, but I think that's what creates the pattern recognition that…
• ▶ 1:32:13 Shane Parrish Why did Au Bon Pen not work?