Panera Bread Company operates in the Eating places sector. Panera Bread Company (Panera) is a national bakery-cafe company. Panera and its subsidiaries operate a retail bakery-cafe business and franchising business under the names Panera Bread, Saint Louis Bread Co., and Paradise Bakery & Cafe. Panera operates in three business segments: Company bakery-cafe operations, franchise operations, and fresh dough and other product operations. As of December 28, 2010, its Company bakery-cafe operations segment consisted of 662 Company-owned bakery-cafes, located throughout the United States and in Ontario, Canada. As of December 28, 2010, Panera's fresh dough and other product operations segment, which supplies fresh dough and other products daily to the Company-owned and franchise-operated bakery-cafes, consisted of 26 fresh dough facilities (22 Company-owned and four franchise-operated). During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2010 (fiscal 2010), it purchased all the assets of 37 bakery-cafes from its New Jersey franchisee. In
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