highlights from my three years working at panera
- customer pooping on the floor
- pulling a stag beetle out of an old woman’s hair
- two employees started dating and had a blow-out fight in the parking lot before work at least once a week
- employee cutting her finger practically off because she jammed her arm in the bagel slicer
- catering coordinator fucking the GM in the basement
- man claiming he didn’t have a panera card because a friend stole all his rewards cards while he was in a coma for a year
- the turkish opera singer who worked in the kitchen for a summer
- disheveled man offering “voodoo therapy” in the dining room to guests as they walk in
- tiny dominican lesbian stole the girlfriends of two different male employees
its real all right & there’s more where that came from
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- the woman who pooped on the floor got banned, but not for pooping on the floor
- there is a man who comes in once a week, buys a sandwich to go, and eats it in the men’s bathroom. we know because he leaves toothpicks and the wrapper by the urinal
- a woman once demanded to know where she could buy an apartment in the area, i informed her that this was a panera and not a real estate office, and she interrupted me to specify she was looking for an $1100 two bedroom
- we hired twins named franciel and franciela
- customer complained about the size of the small mac n cheese (it comes pre-portioned) and i told her she could upgrade it to a large for a few dollars, at which point she shook her mac n cheese in my face and screamed “i could shit more mac and cheese than this!”
- the GM got so upset that he threw a sandwich at the wall and it stuck there for a few minutes because of the sauce
- people act like “do you want bread, chips, or an apple for your side?” is the goddamn SATs
- no, you can’t get “bread chips”
- no, you can’t get “apple chips”
- no, you can’t get “apple bread”
- i hate you
How do you not have apple bread?!