Friday, May 29, 2009

Via Panera Catering Coordinator Meeting




Did you know... WE CATER!!! Panera Bread has an excellent catering department called Via Panera ! In every cafe we have a dedicated catering coordinator who is there to serve all your catering needs! Panera Bread offers a wide variety of breakfast and lunch assortments that are easy and affordable. Our catering packages are great for office meetings, school events, reunions, tail gating, or just a wonderful lunch for a picnic in the park.

Our catering department is the convenient and healthy choice for a meeting of five or a conference of five-hundred. Our breads are artisan quality and baked fresh every day, our meats are free of hormones and antibiotics, and our fruit and vegetable cut fresh every morning. In fact, Panera was recently voted one of the healthiest restaurants by Health magazine. Our menu gives you a variety of options (for breakfast, lunch or dinner!) and can be customized to any specifications.


On Wednesday, May 27th all Blue Ridge Bread’s Catering Coordinators gathered for their monthly meeting! The meeting was lead by the Senior Via Panera Catering Coordinators- Mark Croy of the Valley Region, and Michael Boswell of the Mountain Region. Check out these pictures of the bunch! They are a good looking crew! Next time you are in the cafe- don't forget to grab a catering menu!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

New Store Opening, Memphis Tennessee





Our sister franchise, Delta Dough has opened a new bakery-cafĂ© in the Laurelwood Shopping Center in Mid-Town Memphis. To celebrate the opening, we hosted a VIP Party for 500 of the movers and shakers in Memphis. We invited them to be the first to taste our freshly baked breads, pastries, soups, salads, and more! For all our opening events, we raised money for the Memphis Zoo. Panera Bread matched all the proceeds that were donated. We ended up donating $1200 to the Zoo! To celebrate our partnership we took a very “wild” approach to our VIP party. Check out the pictures of the bread animals!