Posted on 01/29/2018 7:28:25 AM PST by EdnaMode
The bakery-café chain panera Bread has issued a nationwide recall of its cream-cheese products, after samples showed evidence of the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium.
Listeria infections kill hundreds of people each year and are particularly dangerous for pregnant women and their unborn children (hence the recommendation that pregnant women should avoid soft cheeses).
Panera (PNRA, +0.00%) was keen to point out that the bacterium was only found in samples of one variety of its cream cheese, made on one particular day—samples from the production days before and after seemed to be fine.
However, better safe than sorry, so Panera is recalling all varieties of its 2 oz. and 8 oz. cream cheeses in the U.S. The recall does not affect cream cheese sold in its Canadian outlets.
“The safety of our guests and associates is paramount, therefore we are recalling all cream cheese products sold in the U.S. with an active shelf life. We have likewise ceased all manufacturing in the associated cream cheese facility,” CEO Blaine Hurst said in a Sunday statement.
If you bought the cream cheese, Panera said, you should throw it away and call the company on 1-855-6-PANERA, or visit its customer help website, for information about how to claim a full refund.
How does this kind of thing happen, btw. Is it just luck of the draw where it happens no matter how clean the equipment? Is it from poor house keeping in the cleaning and maintenanceof the equipment, or is it from poor sanitary habbits of the workers themselves?
I know a baker at Panera who’s as hairy as a gorilla and is filthy. I’ll never eat there.
I never understood Panera’s “clean foods” campaign. “Pure foods” or “whole foods” would’ve been terms people understand. FWIW, I don’t think they could justify that. Their pastries are junk, their breads are not true whole-grain, their soups are manufactured products, and their salads and sandwiches are thin on high-nutrition inclusions. Besides that, they fell behind the curve on fruit smoothies, compared to all the newer franchises that specialize in high-nutrition smoothies.
I have only been to Panera twice,each time buying a small loaf of Asiago bread to take home.
Delicious.
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Yeah it’s definitely overpriced. Hopefully your food was okay.
My husband and I stopped there for dinner after he had some testing done. I suggested we eat something lighter so he didn’t get sick after his anesthesia. He got a sandwich, which is rather small for a “whole” and chips, I got a half salad and cup of soup, and we got 2 bowls of soup to go for our daughter and my mom.
$39.
I could have made homemade soup and sandwiches for half that and had enough to eat 4 meals.
Thanks
I try to avoid places I leave hungry these days as it's getting too expensive to waste my eating out dollars.
I agree, 100%. Not always easy to do here in Phoenix. I tend to find we are driving more into the older parts of Mesa where the rents are cheaper and the restaurant choices are more varied and unique
Chilli's used to be good too. Last time we went it was borderline inedible.
I eat at Panera every week because our Bible Study meets there. It’s very hard to figure out what to eat. What I really want is a bran muffin but I understand they don’t keep well.
I have bought a loaf of bread and had them toast two slices of it. It cost the same as a sandwich or bagel (with Listeria). We ate the bread all week.
They are opening a brand new (constructing from ground up) Panera a couple of miles from my home.
We loved Panera, however, we thought it was going downhill.
Their food used to be good before they changed everything to be more pure ingredients or whatever. Now its purely mediocre...
Yep. Their bakery case was once full of a variety of good things. They’ve pared it down to probably half of what it was.
Yes. It was for quite a few months.
What happened to their advertising claim....”clean” food.
I can't find any meat on their sandwiches, it's invisible, all bread.
And that's without any beverage or sales tax. Went last night and paid $10.78 just for the pick two. Used to be just under $8 several years ago.
I think the "rewards" are kind of insulting, too. You go something like 6 times and you get a measly $1 off of a beverage.
My problem with Chili’s is their parent company’s leftism and that the places are usually unsanitary. Dirty tables and dirty utensils kill my appetite.
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