re: New Panera Bread on Jefferson Hwy

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Is panera new to the region or something?

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Kind of/ sort of. Opened its first in region in Metairie almost 2 years ago. Since then, popping up all over. Covington, Midcity, Houma, Slidell is about to get one, and this is the first I've heard of Jeff hwy.

Its decent food but the real reason I know some of this is because the closest one previously used to be in the Bama/FL Destin area. I saw the niche for the market so I looked up franchising info and the company doesn't do single stores, they sell the territory. You need to have money to make that money. So all the ones sprouting up are franchises of a single guy or group of investors. OT balla status, baw.