Panera Bread celebrates it’s Grand Opening at the Landing

General Manager Robert Morrow welcomes customers to the new Panera Bread restaurant at the Landing. Mr. Morrow comes to us from the Gig Harbor Panara Bread location, and he reports that he is very impressed by Renton.

Renton’s new Panera Bread restaurant celebrated it’s opening with a “bread breaking” ceremony today –instead of the traditional ribbon cutting.

The inviting and aromatic bread-sandwich-pastry-beverage business has hosted large crowds of diners from the first hours of it’s opening last Friday morning. And don’t be discouraged by the line when you go there to eat… general Manager Robert Morrow assures me his staff work to see that orders are taken within five minutes. They use a pager system that allows you to place your order and then sit down at your favorite table in their sunny dining room– the pager alerts you when your order is ready for pickup at the counter.

Cathy and I had a great lunch at this restaurant yesterday, and more great snacks there today during the opening celebration. We will be going back often. The business is a great addition to Renton and the Landing.

Susan Bressler from The Renton Patch was on-hand to cover the festivities, and has further details HERE in her latest article. I was particularly excited to hear about the arrangement the restaurant has made to donate it’s excess bread to local feeding programs… Susan will be covering this further in a future article.

Here are a few more photos from today: