My Panera Office

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Panera Bread cafe, restaurant, bakery…Oh, what do we call it.  I call it my office away from the office, office away from home.

Panera has been a meeting place for the whole range of visitors, ranging from the casual teenagers to the busy businessmen. I have seen them there.  I have had my friends sitting across from me in the flesh, too.  But, like many, I often sit there with my laptop open, smelling the fresh pastry, sipping my coffee and chatting with my friends on the screen.

Some call them “virtual friends”, but those are the ones who do not know how close we have grown once again to old school mates, for work colleagues and workshop attendees.  Then there are the scores that we have never seen, yet due to where they live, their interests, or the fact that they are friends of our friends, we have met only on this screen in front of me.

Be they Facebook or Twitter friends, or LinkedIn, ahha professional, network partners (got to be careful with the vocabulary here, they are from the workplace), I am so thankful that I can connect with them from this my office bakery over Panera Bread’s most often great, free wifi.

Panera Bread enjoys the recognition of being one of the largest dine-in, bakery chains in the United States, a leader in the field of specialty bread, and that special way they showcase their sweet wares make any morning with my friends special.

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.