Five guys and Panera Bread

I have my 1st five guys and Panera shops this weekend. I am excited. I have never been to a Five guys but have been to Panera Bread once. I found that when I was looking for a Luby's. I heard they were both good

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I always spend a little more and get a double cheeseburger - otherwise the burgers are pretty thin. And I love Panera Bread.

Both are yummy, but I prefer Panera.

Panara is yummy!!! You don't make much on them but they taste so good it doesn't matter (to me at least!).

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I love the chicken and wild rice soup! Hrmm. I wonder if I could find a recipe for that....

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When I went I did not get the chicken and rice soup.

I found some copycat recipes if you don't mind using ingredients like Rice-A-Roni.

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My stepdaughter used to work there. They get the soup frozen.

I bet you could do skinless boneless chicken breasts chopped in small cubes, Cambell's Cream of Chicken Soup and a package of wild rice and it would be pretty close.

I have no cooking shame.

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Enjoy! I'm still hunting for the MSC that shops these

Do you did your baguette into the soup, griff?

Of course!

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I like Rice A Roni. Now I am in the mood for soup.

Thanks butterfly em. I sure will enjoy

My chicken n dumplings came out great! Almost as good as my grandma used to make. I wish Panera had chicken and dumplings.

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I wish we had one where I live

If you like Rice A Roni, don't look at the ingredient list

"Industrial caramel coloring is made by reacting sugars with ammonia and sulfites under high pressure and temperatures. The chemical reactions create 4-methylimidazole, which in government-conducted studies caused lung, liver, or thyroid cancer or leukemia in laboratory mice or rats. This is why California recently required foods containing caramel color to be labeled as potential cancer-causing agents.

But you won't see this warning label any time soon - manufacturers simply reduced the use of caramel color enough that the labeling requirements no longer applied.

Caramel color varies slightly between products - when in beer, sauces or baked goods it has just ammonia and when used in soft drinks, it has both sulfites and ammonia. Neither one is a "good" option."

I found the above on the "Fooducate" website about Rice A Roni ingredient of industrial caramel coloring, yuk.

Jasflalt

Did she like working there

This where food manufacturers and the FDA are in collusion. I don't eat trans fats. If I relied strictly on the nutrition label without looking at ingredients I would be screwed. The FDA allows the manufacturer to have some as long as it is under a certain amount per serving. Some is not zero, yet they are allowed to advertise that way. A common trick for the manufacturers is to simply increase the number of servings per package. At one point soda companies changed a 12 oz can to two servings to get around some labeling law. I think the soda companies were called on it and had to change back to one serving.

@JASFLALMT wrote:

But you won't see this warning label any time soon - manufacturers simply reduced the use of caramel color enough that the labeling requirements no longer applied.

Isaiah, she loved working there. She worked there all through college and was assistant manager near the end, but then she got an internship and is now a warehouse manager at a local company that makes massage and sports creams and lotions. I think she really liked it because she loved the food so much!

And Panera has clean food, so the copy cat recipe with the Rice A Roni isn't going to cut it, LOL.

Lisa, don't they sneak in transfats when we aren't looking? And what do we think is in that garlic "butter" that they serve with the Papa John's pizza?

I didn't eat that pizza even when they paid me. I'm a label reader, the whole label. I also tend to buy the types of things that still have trans fats (crackers and pastry are some of the worst) at Trader Joe's. They don't carry products with trans fats or HFCS.

I rarely eat the pizza and I NEVER eat the garlic sauce. I have hungry college kids that live next door. I like making flatbread pizzas with my own ingredients. I don't eat a lot of crackers or pastries, either. I wish we had a Trader Joe's close by.

Isaiah, is the Panera you are shopping not close to your home? I saw you wrote above that you wish they had one where you live. I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

@butterflyem wrote:

Enjoy! I'm still hunting for the MSC that shops these

A little searching will uncover it for you. There are many threads here that will give you the info if you use the search thread function.

Not so sure about that since no threads link the client and MSC in the same thread.

Sadly, no Panera drive thru stores in my area.

@JASFLALMT wrote:

Isaiah, is the Panera you are shopping not close to your home? I saw you wrote above that you wish they had one where you live. I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

Yes. A while back we were thinking getting one but for some reason they decided to pull out,

may be in a few years they will decide to come back.

I am doing some traveling and I know they have one so I stop buy there and eat last time and it was good

My 1st job was at Long John Silvers. I worked there in my last year in high school and through out my years in college.

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To stay within reimbursement at 5 Guys I would order a small cheeseburger, small fries and a drink. If you get the regular burger or the double you will go over the reimbursement. Just watch them shake the fries and get you timings correct. Have fun, they are great "starter" shops.

I usually get the little fries, which are still way more than enough food! But I usually go over .50 cents or so because I like to get a double cheeseburger. In my area the prices are low enough for me to do that.

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