Panera Bread offers
New/Lapsed Subscribers: 5-Month Panera Unlimited Sip Club Subscription for
Free when you follow the instructions listed below.
Thanks to community member
bigrich147 for sharing this deal
Deal Instructions:
- Sign-up/sign in to your MyPanera account (free to join).
- Click here, then Subscribe Now
- Highlight the $11.99/month subscription
- Click 'Promo Code' and apply code 3GUEST10
- A valid debit/credit card on file is required to sign-up.
- After sign-up, visit the Manage Subscription tab (here).
- Your Unlimited Sip Club subscription will be extended to 5 months for Free.
- Note: Once your 5-month free trial ends, you may continue your subscription at the standard $11.99/mo. price or cancel at any time (must cancel before 5th month billing cycle begins to avoid charges, if you do not desire to continue past your free trial period).
- See complete offer/subscription details here
Panera Bread Unlimited Sip Club - Charged Lemonades
- Iced & Hot Coffees
- Iced & Hot Teas
- Fountain Beverages
- Sip Club Saturday Offers
- Subscription Benefits:
- You can enjoy any size drip hot coffee, hot tea, iced coffee, iced tea, Charged Lemonade, lemonade, or fountain beverage every two (2) hours during regular bakery-café hours, including free refills of the same beverage at any participating U.S. Panera Bread bakery-cafes.
- Excludes all other beverages.
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Don't forget to use the privacy app so you can use it till the last day and don't get charged if you forget to cancel.
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I tried and it shows regular price, no indication I'm signed up even though I've went through the process twice
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To my surprise my December date has been pushed out to January!
I used to submit my order in the app every time and quickly caught on that they never put the cups on the shelves, so I asked an employee and she said unless there's food on the order they just let customers grab the cups themselves, and now they have a whole table at the front entrance lined with cups that you can grab for self service. There are also screens where you can order and pay if you don't have the membership.
So I basically just started to walk in and grab my cup without "ordering" because I know that I have paid for the membership and that if I ever did get questioned I'd simply pull up the app and show them my active, paid membership. I don't consider it stealing, because I'm paying for the membership, unless she was referring to people actually walking in without a membership and just grabbing cups - then yeah, of course that is theft. And I'm sure technically Panera would like people to submit orders so they can track everything but like I said, knowing the pickup notifications don't even get sent to the store, it just began to feel like a waste of ~30seconds (especially since the app would always bug out on me and I'd have to constantly sign in again etc.).
Blood orange. Looks like no sugar in it
Doesn't taste so good. Mixed it with the mango drink
So I basically just started to walk in and grab my cup without "ordering" because I know that I have paid for the membership and that if I ever did get questioned I'd simply pull up the app and show them my active, paid membership. I don't consider it stealing, because I'm paying for the membership, unless she was referring to people actually walking in without a membership and just grabbing cups - then yeah, of course that is theft. And I'm sure technically Panera would like people to submit orders so they can track everything but like I said, knowing the pickup notifications don't even get sent to the store, it just began to feel like a waste of ~30seconds (especially since the app would always bug out on me and I'd have to constantly sign in again etc.).
Do not agree with this. You have membership, but placing an order is still needed. It's not a gym membership card that you have and can use anything inside. Just because notifications aren't sent and it wastes your 30 seconds, doesn't mean it's right to walk in and grab a coffee without actually ordering it.
Eg Panera may send you an offer to reward you for actively ordering or may give offer to those not frequenting so much. Also, the stock of coffee and other drinks needed for a particular location, for budgeting, may depend on number of orders coming in. It's all based on their decisions and depends on knowing the actual number of orders. Just because you can walk in and grab coffee without ordering, doesn't mean it's right. it hardly takes 30 seconds, as you said.
Eg Panera may send you an offer to reward you for actively ordering or may give offer to those not frequenting so much. Also, the stock of coffee and other drinks needed for a particular location, for budgeting, may depend on number of orders coming in. It's all based on their decisions and depends on knowing the actual number of orders. Just because you can walk in and grab coffee without ordering, doesn't mean it's right. it hardly takes 30 seconds, as you said.
People order coffees and sit inside and get countless refills all the time without the store "tracking" the refills, so the justification of placing orders so it doesn't impact their inventory doesn't line up. Every individual cafe gauges stock and inventory by how quickly they go through coffee and re-order the coffee itself -- not by how many cups are sold. I've worked in restaurant/service industry as well as retail stores where inventory is re-ordered and this is typically how it is gauged. I'm sure that Panera itself still tracks overall number of orders placed so they can report general stats, but they fully realize many people sitting inside their cafes buy coffees and grab refills or "top offs" and so it would be a completely inaccurate means of gauging stock if they simply went off number of coffees "registered" by their app/cash registers, because I'd wager at least 50% of the people who order and sit inside end up re-filling or topping off at least once. I see it virtually every time I walk into my local Panera -- whether it's retirees having lunch and topping off their coffees or people stationed up at their work laptops going up for their 2nd or 3rd cup.
And just to reiterate and emphasize this fact: I only stopped placing orders within the app when the employee at my local cafe literally told me it didn't matter because the store was not sent notifications that the order was placed. She said it literally doesn't even show up as a pickup order in their system unless food or other paid items were added.
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Eg Panera may send you an offer to reward you for actively ordering or may give offer to those not frequenting so much. Also, the stock of coffee and other drinks needed for a particular location, for budgeting, may depend on number of orders coming in. It's all based on their decisions and depends on knowing the actual number of orders. Just because you can walk in and grab coffee without ordering, doesn't mean it's right. it hardly takes 30 seconds, as you said.
As an analogy, I have a gym membership that lets me use a bunch of different brands and locations. Each gym gets a small payment every time I visit. The business model is just banking on the likelihood that most customers won't go more than a couple times a week.
As an analogy, I have a gym membership that lets me use a bunch of different brands and locations. Each gym gets a small payment every time I visit. The business model is just banking on the likelihood that most customers won't go more than a couple times a week.
People order coffees and sit inside and get countless refills all the time without the store "tracking" the refills, so the justification of placing orders so it doesn't impact their inventory doesn't line up. Every individual cafe gauges stock and inventory by how quickly they go through coffee and re-order the coffee itself -- not by how many cups are sold. I've worked in restaurant/service industry as well as retail stores where inventory is re-ordered and this is typically how it is gauged. I'm sure that Panera itself still tracks overall number of orders placed so they can report general stats, but they fully realize many people sitting inside their cafes buy coffees and grab refills or "top offs" and so it would be a completely inaccurate means of gauging stock if they simply went off number of coffees "registered" by their app/cash registers, because I'd wager at least 50% of the people who order and sit inside end up re-filling or topping off at least once. I see it virtually every time I walk into my local Panera -- whether it's retirees having lunch and topping off their coffees or people stationed up at their work laptops going up for their 2nd or 3rd cup.
Odd analogy imo. I'm not walking into Panera and grabbing menu items, or more expensive drinks. I pay for unlimited coffee and I only ever take coffee. If I were to order food or other drinks such as lattes (i.e. anything not included with the Sip Club membership) then I would of course order and pay for those items. But I'm paying for coffee and I'm taking coffee.
And just to reiterate and emphasize this fact: I only stopped placing orders within the app when the employee at my local cafe literally told me it didn't matter because the store was not sent notifications that the order was placed. She said it literally doesn't even show up as a pickup order in their system unless food or other paid items were added.
I do not agree. We are just describing possible reasons of how Panera may use that order data. But it doesn't matter how and if at all they use it. The membership offers you reward to be redeemed. And it is not an odd analogy. It's not like a gym membership where you can go in and start using equipment/services included in the your membership. This membership is setup requiring you to place an order. There is a reason it is setup the way it is setup. Just because no one is correcting you, doesn't mean you don't follow the membership rules.
At the end, I guess to each its own.