Win A $50 Panera Bread Gift Card
This contest started on 2/7/17. This contest has a winner.
* Win A $50 Panera Bread Gift Card.
Just between you guys and Jeff Eats-I’m not a fan of the Panera Bread chain!
Anyway, if you are- or maybe you just want to try it out- or maybe you’re just a glutton for punishment…
Jeff Eats got a $50 Panera Bread Gift Card to give to one of you guys!
The game- the first 25 “reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!
The $50 Gift Card is good at any Panera Bread location (for locations, menu, info- panerabread.com).
Posted on December 19th, 2013
***** Corner Bakery Cafe, 2240 Northwest 19th Street, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, (561) 417-6060.
Corner Bakery Cafe is a U.S. chain of self-serve cafes that specializes in breakfast stuff, breads, pastries, soups, sandwiches, salads. Last count-about 150 of these joints spread out–Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia. For our purposes, there are 4 Florida location-Boca Raton, Pembroke Pines and 2-Miami. You can check www.cornerbakery.com for locations/menu/prices/photos.
Simple concept-order/pickup at counter.
Can’t really believe it, but Jeff Eats has-never reviewed Panera Bread. For the purposes of this story, I’m gonna assume that you know what Panera Bread is all about. With that in mind, Corner Bakery Cafe looks/tastes/feels/quacks just like Panera Bread does–only difference, Panera Bread has more than 10-times the number of stores that Corner Bakery Cafe does. For those of you who don’t know about Panera Bread…check www.panerabread.com.
As Jeff Eats’ uncle (by marriage) Sam Ting would say…Corner Bakery Cafe and Panera Bread are the same-thing (took some doing to sneak this one in here)-jacks of all trades and masters of none.
Jeff Eats has eaten twice in Boca’s-Corner Bakery Cafe…chicken salad on rye, French toast/scrambled eggs, meatball panini, chicken noodle soup. Now, nothing terrible–but nothing that I would ever consider for a last meal at Attica. Look, I know-this is Corner Bakery Cafe’s story–but just insert Panera Bread where Corner Bakery Cafe is now and vice versa–and you basically got Jeff Eats’ take on Panera Bread…of course, I ate different stuff at Panera Bread’s CityPlace and Mission Bay joints-but like Corner Bakery Cafe’s food, I wasn’t a fan.
To be perfectly honest with you, for the life of me- Jeff Eats can’t figure out why Panera Bread and to a lesser extent Corner Bakery are seemingly so successful. No fooling, their food/service are mediocre at best…same mystery surrounds McDonald’s- but that’s a story for another day!
If you refuse to listen, Corner Bakery Cafe is open Monday-Sunday 7am-8pm.
i like their bread
yum
Jeff,
You don’t like a joint yet you have a Gift Card Give-Away for it!
From Day One you have always said that food/restaurant ratings were purely subjective. That what you like others may hate and vice versa. That people had to make their own calls on this subject.
I love the site and I love that you don’t ever take yourself too seriously.
On Panera I’m with you, nothing special .
Lo Lo,
So true, so true.
I’m near a Panera and would like to win.
soups are good here
Ill take it please
Foods ok but for free its great
My kids love their mac and cheese!!! (and so does their dad) 🙂
would love to win!
Their breads, bagels, and pastries are quite good.
Would love a gift card to Panera.
Jeff,
As you always say food etc is purely a subjective call.
Giving away a gift card for a joint you don’t care for proves your point.
I think their food is ok but not great. Their service is often sketchy to say the least.
Rapid Delivery is a great concept, now if only the preparer’s can read and make the food as requested.
I like Panera!
Not my favorite place but maybe I can say I won something
I have never eaten here. I am open to trying it.
I eat there often.
sure would love to win!
hope to win this one
For $50 I would try Panera!
I have never eaten there, would love to try it! Thanks.
I need my soup fix pick me
Hoping to go there.
I want to win.
Please make this happen.
I would love to win this contest.
I like Panera Bread. I don’t love it. The food is decent enough but the service always seems to be screwed up.
I want to win this contest.