My Panera Office

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It has happened a lot of times, just like this. I was caught way from the office without my laptop. But, my trusty cell phone was in my pocket. Sell phone: wow, what a name for what that device has become. It has all my appointments on it, reminds of them. I keep all manner of notes on it. And, it is able to connect to the Internet from a hotspot or wifi connection.

So way from the office and my digital desktop, I just pulled into Panera Bread, paid for one of their never ending cups of java, drew it from the thermos and sat down. I few finger swipes over my phone and I was on the website checking information that I needed for my next appointment.

Who can continue to be upset, with coffee at my finger tips, pastry in the air and the world at my fingertips. I even used my Skype app to talk to someone in England, free, or chose to it, I did pay for the coffee.

Networking with clients at Panera Bread

Compass Group North America’s Panera Bread has surpassed expectations of many and has emerged as one of the best casual eateries in North America. The journey that it began by expanding in 1990s has now gathered steam.  The company now operates through over 1362 cafes in 40 states and in addition to this it has fresh dough selling bakery-cafes.  This provides plenty of places to hook up to the free wifi and network with clients.

Busy people may find it hard to squeeze in some time in their daily schedule to have a proper meal or nutritious snack while working.  However, my Panera bread office is simply the most ideal way to combine office in kitchen. This mobile office attacks thousands of customers every day. The environment at any Panera Bread café is simply delicious with sweet smell of fresh bakery products always in the air.

It serves both as kitchen and office to many since Panera Bread offers free Wi-Fi connectivity in its cafes for more me and the rest of its customers.  Together with fresh hot coffee it serves a great, stable Wi-Fi connection up.  It is the perfect environment for networking.

A study reveals that in every five minutes a person tweets from Panera Office enjoying.  I am one of them, yet not every minute, of course.   People not pnly use laptops, but like me, they often sip a coffee while connecting to the world through their mobile phones.

Panera Bread outlets provide free coffee refills along with a great environment for mobile office. This just makes your experience more satisfying. This chain now operates with the largest free wireless networking in USA. The Wi-Fi allows you to connect several devices with Wi-Fi capability, however they restrict the Wi-Fi during peak time to an hour at many locations using filters.

You might never feel the work load while you are working from one such eatery that provides Wi-Fi along with a great ambience for work.

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Many of us use Panera Bread as our office on a regular basis, enjoying the sweet smell of fresh pastry and some of the best bottomless cup coffee around.  For residents of Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan Monday, Panera Bread was serving as office for business people and library for school children.  Due to the wifi connection being up and running at the West Main Street Panera Bread, every table was full with students and professionals glaring at their laptops.  Click here to catch the full story.

Here are just some random tweets today (Nov.  12, 2010) how more and more people are using Panera Bread as their office.  I am not sure if it is the economy, the smell of fresh baked bread, or the free wifi, but Panera is the office on the run for many:

• just sitting here at my new office…. Panera’s parking lot
• Ever noticed how at daytime, panera becomes a quasi portable office space for deadbeat businessmen? Weird.
• I am headed to the office, panera bread
• Panera is always my office on the road…
• Panera is one of my favorite office locations… Good coffee to.
• Remote office today! (@ Panera Bread)

We are a going band.

The large number, almost every five minutes, of tweets coming from people using Panera Bread’s Wifi while enjoying a hot cup or a sandwich are increasing.  Many are using their cell phones.  Look at the Twitter search result for Panera Bread and you will see that you and I are not alone in our appreciation and use of the eatery’s internet connection.

To set up an office for a few hours on the road or just going down the block to work, Panera Bread and Starbucks seem to be favorite options for many of us who like to work around food and a nice ambiance, yet away from the pad where we sleep.

There have been a lot of comparisons of these two ‘restaurants.’   See look at their stocks from all angles so decide on buy, sell, or hold.  Seeking Alpha did that a couple of years back, check it out.  Barron’s discussed both of their excellent earnings results in January.  Read the article, then call your broker.

An owner of several franchises of each lined them up from an owners perspective.  If you have a lot of cash and are interested in becoming an owner, look this over.

But readers of this blog are interested in the customer service and their wifi.  Hands down, Panera wins out.  The bakery chain has a much more suitable seating area, with actual tables and booths.  Much better than Starbuck’s lounge chairs for setting up a temporary office.  More importantly, we want to save money.  Panera’s wifi is free and most of the time it is more reliable and faster.

What about this as a Panera bonus.  According to an article in the Chicago Tribune last year, Panera Bread’s coffee is as good as Starbucks, but cheaper.

I am a loyal Panera Bread cutomer, and proud to count it as my office away from home.

How do you compare Starbucks and Panera Bread?

Panera Bread Restaurants is reporting that same-store sales rose 2.8% in the first 27 days of the third quarter.  That is truly an anomaly in business, especially in the food services realm.  Some are saying that it has a lot to do with the growing number of work from home (work from anywhere but the office) folks, like us, who appreciate the free Wifi in the Panera Bread eateries.

In fact, Panera Bread Restaurants Wifi and comfortable surroundings is making it the place for more and more people to meet with clients and even have office meetings there.  Many bloggers, like Computer Daddy, are saying “Panera’s open Wi-Fi availability not only makes it my first choice for working coffee, lunch and dinner breaks while I am on the road, but it is also my first choice for off-site meetings with both vendors and staff.”

I found a very interesting discussion on Facebook entitled “Your Panera Wifi Experience.“   Most are very pleased.  As one says, “the only problem is there are not enough outlets.”  Check it out.

“Yep, it’s free. Just sit down, open up your laptop and you’re ready to go.”  So Panera Bread Restaurants promotes their new policy of open access.   To many of us that has been an invitation fo

r us, in these difficult economic times, to setup our ‘Away from Home’ office among the aromas of breads, pastries, and lattes.  A dream come true.