Panera Bread

Panera Bread Company is an American bakery-café fast casual food company with more than 2,000 locations in the United States and Canada. Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, is where the company's headquarters are located. Saint Louis Bread Company is the company's name in the Greater St. Louis area, where it has over 100 shops. Bakery goods, spaghetti, salads, sandwiches, soups, and speciality beverages are all available. Flatbread pizzas will be added to the menu in 2020.

Panera Bread is the eighth-largest restaurant chain in the United States. The bakery-café chain is unique in that it exclusively operates in the United States and Canada, unlike many of the others on this list. The restaurant is noted for its bagels and other baked products, as well as fresh, high-quality sandwiches, salads, soups, and coffee. Because of its cafe-style dining rooms and free internet, Panera Bread is a popular spot for individuals to work.

It was the best-performing restaurant stock over its final 20 years as a public business, from 1997 to 2017, giving an 86-fold return to stockholders.

Panera was formerly the country's leading provider of free Wi-Fi hotspots. During busy hours, several establishments limit free Wi-Fi access to 30 or 60 minutes. Paradise Bakery and Cafe and Au Bon Pain are two of Panera Bread's subsidiaries.

Founded: 1987
Headquarters: Sunset Hills, Missouri
Sales: $5.89 billion
Website: https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/home.html