About Panera Bread
Set at 1156 Military Cutoff Rd (28405), Panera Bread is an artisan bread bakery 3.3 mi east of the Wilmington city center. Its listing also places it among bakery cafés.
Wilmington has 56 places on our map that bake or sell fresh pastry, and this is one of them, roughly one for every 2,237 residents. If you want to compare, Burney's Sweets & More sits 0.2 mi from here.
Doors open from 6 AM at the earliest, and the last pick-up window runs to 9 PM, for about 103 hours across 7 days a week. Weekend visits work too — it is open Saturday and Sunday.
The listing mentions takeout and delivery. The brand runs 1,910 locations we track across the country.
Panera traces its roots to the St. Louis Bread Company, which opened in Kirkwood, Missouri, in 1987; Au Bon Pain acquired it in 1993 and developed it into the Panera Bread concept, and some St. Louis-area cafes still carry the original name. The fast-casual chain is known for its Broccoli Cheddar Soup in a sourdough bread bowl, toasted sandwiches, salads and bakery items like the Cinnamon Crunch Bagel.
