Panera Bread, every mention

Panera Founder Ron Shaich Nov 11, 2025 · 42 mentions

• ▶ 0:03 Ron Shaich I was part of building bakery cafes in America between Au Bon Pain, Panera.
• ▶ 5:05 Ron Shaich Uh, I was also doing work at Panera, and I had a medical advisor helping me deal with how our food manifested itself, and we wanted to really serve people. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:18 Ron Shaich I mean, you take Panera. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:56 Ron Shaich Um, you talk about Panera. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:51 Ron Shaich And we created these environments, and again, this is the manifestation of this understanding that people wanted to feel special in a world in which they didn't, and Panera became the poster child for that, and we built that out, and that…
• ▶ 30:18 Ron Shaich Louis Bread Company that we had renamed Panera. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:51 Ron Shaich I had been involved with the Obama campaign, and there had been some discussion of, of joining the administration, and I was unable to give my commitment to Panera. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 40:35 Ron Shaich You know, it's interesting, so I, I, I left Panera. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 57:06 Ron Shaich I mean, just imagine at Panera, we had a 125,000 people.
• ▶ 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…
• ▶ 1:33:58 Ron Shaich Similarly, at Panera, we were an assembly business. 4 times in the scene