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Company Background: The Panera Bread Company was founded in 1981 and was original named Au Bon Pain Company. In 1993 Au Bon Pain Company purchased Saint Louis Bread Company. After the purchase the company revamped and changed the name to Panera Bread. In 1997 Panera Bread was on a path to being a leader in its industry but it would require all of the financial resources of the company. May of 1999, shareholder values where over $1 million dollars. As of June 25, 2013, Panera Bread owns and franchises over 1,700 bakery-cafes and has location in 44 states including Ontario and Canada. Summary of company actions: Panera Bread has a commitment to “making the best bread”. (Panera Bread, 2016) This seems to be part of their every day and mission of the company. “With the single goal of making great bread broadly available to consumers across America, Panera Bread freshly bakes…

Panera Bread Company was founded by Louis Kane and Ronald Shaich, who together grew Panera into one of the largest competitor in the fast food restaurant business, and the leader in the evolution of fast causal dining. The company currently operates and franchises 1,504 Panera Bread bakery-cafés in 40 states and 17 facilities that deliver fresh dough to the bakery-cafés every day. Panera’s mission has them committed to provide customers with freshly baked artisan breads and quality delicious…

Quiznos is a sandwich shop based in Denver, Colorado, that sells hot toasted subs, as well as soups and salads. Over the past few years, the business has been declining rapidly. Three major factors that have led to the decline of Quiznos include, franchise woes, production failure, and store closures due to thriving competitors. As far as statistics go, Quiznos went out of business very quickly. First off, the business had more than 5,000 locations by 2007 (Strauss 1). However, the…

The Au Bon Pain Company was founded in 1981 by Ron Shaich and Louis Kane. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) Au Bon Pain was a successful bakery-café company throughout the 1980s into the early 1990s. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) In 1993 Au Bon Pain purchased a bakery café company called the Saint Louis Bread Company. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) This newly purchased company consisted of 20 bakery-café locations in the area of St. Louis, Missouri. (“Panera…

the French defeat though, with the end of the war it eventually lead to the United States acquisition of Missouri as a territory from the Louisiana Purchase. Travel to the mid-west and specifically to the area that would become Missouri was easier than most areas of the United States and many groups took advantage of this travel. One group that took advantage of this was the Germans. German immigrants began coming to the Missouri area in the eighteen forties and fifties. Unlike the immigration…

play. A Streetcar Named Desire, although meant to a play that anyone can relate to, also contained characters and situations from his life. In both plays, the characters are drawn from his life. This essay will discuss is the similarities between The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, which have similar characters and themes throughout them. A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in New Orleans. The characters are Blanche Dubois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski (Blanche’s…

Many of us have heard of the Central West End, but we do not know where it is or where it starts when entering St. Louis. Well, Central West End Starts at West of Midtown and runs down the city corridor (History of St. Louis Neighborhoods), which is a belt of, land connecting two areas together (Merriam-Webster Online). The neighborhoods are North Delmar Boulevard, South Oakland, Chouteau Avenues, West DeBaliviere, and lastly Forest Park by Vandeventer Avenue (History of St. Louis…

perfectly summarizes the point Tennessee Williams strove to exemplify in many of his works. Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams, was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus Mississippi. He spent the first seven years of his life in the south, and the people, experiences, and lifestyles there greatly influenced his most famous works. Williams trained in playwriting at the University of Iowa and graduated in 1938 (Shuman 1652). In 1955, his play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof received a…

Throughout history, the evolution of sports has persisted as a prominent and alluring global phenomenon in which, over the years, has developed as a cultural tradition in our daily lives. Despite the countless variety of sports that exist, all admirers share the mutual aspect of holding unified joy during practice or observation of the sport. Because of this, sports allow people to become socially consolidated in an effort to support their favorite sport’s team and celebrate the concept of…

school of Arts and Research in Chicago and the Dunham School in New York. After she disbanded her dance company in 1964, she moved on to becoming a teacher at Southern Illinois University (SIU). Darlene Roy explained that Dunham turned the time of the sensibilities of the black students on campus because there were very few African American professors or artists and residences at that point in time; Dunham gave us a sense of completeness, pride, and sense of owning some portion of that facility.…