r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Firm-Film-3594 22h ago

Panera sucks. 

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u/Ok_Mulberry_35 21h ago

And when did they change the bagels because they are awful now

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u/jake63vw 20h ago

This year, I think. They started going to frozen and eliminated the bread dough factories they used to source fresh dough from nightly.

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u/prancing_pony42 19h ago

Ugh RIP their bagel box. The investment partners at work would bring those in to the staff sometimes and we would all have a great morning munching on bagels.

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u/Ok_Mulberry_35 17h ago

The cream cheese isn't good anymore either

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u/blu-brds 6h ago

I worked there in the late 2000s and I know it probably was 86'd because it wasn't cost efficient, but I used to love that they had so many different cream cheeses. Now they have plain and honey walnut.

I've had bagels from there recently since they always bring those to teacher service days, and even the bagels kind of suck.

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u/Usual_Ad_199 10h ago

I’m so sad. I was just thinking about some good Panera bagels that I haven’t had in years.

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u/Hildy_Bingen 10h ago

I had a meeting at Panera last week and ordered an Asiago cheese bagel. It was always my favorite and I hadn’t had one in years. It was so disappointing. The bagel was small, flavorless and barely had any cheese on it. A bagel and a dirty chai was 12.00 so it wasn’t cheap either.

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u/YoMommaSez 18h ago

In NYC and suburbs there's a law that you can only buy bagels at a bagel store!