My Panera Office

Posts Tagged ‘Wifi’

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.