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It’s been a little while since I last shared some of my personal thoughts with you all. We have had many exciting things happen within our company over the course of this year! We began a wave of new store openings in our home state...
When I think about what makes the holidays special, the word “tradition” comes to my mind. We had many family traditions growing up, but one thing we’ve always made a priority each year is giving back. It’s something that has always been a part of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When A Special Wish Foundation Dayton told Emma Becker that they’d like to give her and her family a vacation trip to anywhere she wanted to go, Emma thanked them but said she wasn’t ready. Emma, 7, at the time, had just been diagnosed with cancer...
It was nearly a decade ago that I was invited to the Rich Center for Autism on Youngstown State University’s campus. I receive many invitations to tour local facilities, and I am always touched by the incredible work being done in our communities, but for...
Little did we realize when we signed on as an official sponsor of the Cincinnati Reds earlier this year that the team would align so strategically with our April “Pieces of Hope” for Autism cookie campaign in the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky market....
I know – first-hand – what it takes to create a quality experience for customers. It involves everything from ensuring you are serving great food to hiring quality people. Are your floors clean? Are your counters sparkling?...
Neither Tish nor Dave truly understood what this diagnosis really meant. Tish was working full-time as an administrator at a law firm and Dave was working as a HVAC-R Industrial Service Technician. They were a young married couple with an 8 year-old neuro-typical son, Kameron....
Dennis Evans, another Knight, said it was a few years before 2001 because he, Dove and the other members of their order were at their round table at the Panera Bread Restaurant in Gahanna, Ohio, when they learned of the 911 Disaster....
Volunteers, including Panera associates from the Cincinnati area, packed a whopping 4,500 sacks of food at the Ninth Annual Power Pack-a-thon, on Martin Luther King Day in Cincinnati. The food will benefit chronically hungry children in the Cincinnati area....
As the director of training for Covelli Enterprises/Panera Bread operations in the Cincinnati area, Ken Bloebaum works with hundreds of people each year and travels to the company’s 21 different Panera Bread restaurants in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky....