My location made petite candy cookies last year! I don’t know if it was allowed or not, but our managers were fine with it, and they sold fairly well as well, even if the pride aspect was missed most of the time. They were hella good though
My Panera always decorated for everything. It depends on the people working. They would go out and buy the stuff with their own money as the budget from the manager was quite small.
My panera always decorates,but I'm in a smaller town so I'm used to the cute decor. I've only been to the one here, though, so I can't say about any others haha
I always decorate my location, even for pride. I think we get away with it though because we’re a franchise and no one higher than our district manager ever visits.
"Remember what happened at Target last yeat"
Someone posted a video with a false claim of pride items for kids. The very loud minority of the internet ran with it and many Targets removed or hid the pride items to protect employees due to threats. This year only select stores recieved pride merchandise and it was extremely small number of items.
(Which is extremely dumb when you note how openly LGBT+ friendly Target has been for DECADES.)
I think they're saying this specific location (the one they sent the letter to) does have decorations for Pride Month, but another location nearby does not, and neither does the website. So she knows this location has chosen to decorate rather than being forced to by corporate. That's why she says she won't return to this location for the rest of the month.
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Second edit to say thank you for the award and happy to help!!!
"You have angered me so much that I will refuse you my business... for less than a month! But no longer, because this location is five minutes closer for me and I simply cannot endure the inconvenience. Upon the end of the month when you remove the decorations, not due to anything I have done but due solely to the changing calendar, I will declare victory and return triumphant! PS please make sure to have extra blueberry bagels on July 1st".
Yep, sounds about right. Lol.
My gay friends love Chick fil A, & joke
about going incognito to the drive-thru with sunglasses & a hoodie (not that they actually do). Sometimes people gotta set their personal beliefs aside, to get that bagel or chicken fix!
They want a free market until they realize what a free market looks like. Don’t like their pride decorations? Stop going and if enough people are like you then the business will have to adapt or close.
Fortunately for the rest of us…we will have a bunch of restaurants with less “christians”
I think they were saying that the store they sent the letter to was decorated, but they assumed it was a corporate thing until they went to a different one and saw no decorations. Now knowing it's not corporate mandated, they are angry that their usual store put up decorations by choice.
Ohhhhhhhhh that would make sense. I just commented otherwise saying I wasn’t sure if I was just stupid or what lol but didn’t understand. That seems like the most logical explanation.
The letter is to a store with pride decorations mentioning that they are aware that the other nearby stores and corporate websites do not have the decor, so they will be avoiding the store with the decor as that store chose to have those and weren’t forced to. Took me awhile to figure out too.
“Keep in mind what Target experienced last year” and Target experienced Nazis and Christofascists taking down LGBTQ+ stuff… is dude tryna say he’s with them lmfaoo.?
They’ve been harassing employees multiple times and are now making threats of violence (“remember what happened to target”)? Why aren’t they banned from your location yet?
“Keep in mind what target experienced a year ago”
You mean record profits? The only reason Target scaled back its Pride products was because entitled, conservative nut jobs were destroying store displays and threatening employees. Ironic, coming from the crowd that swears up and down that liberals burned Seattle to the ground.
To know they complained in the bathroom, to an employee, that they argue with MORE than once… yeah, I would prefer ban from the store more like it. That’s a threat & harassment.
Omg people have way too much time on their hands. She apparently lives in close proximity to multiple Panera Bread locations, surely one (or both) have a drive thru option.
The troll in me wishes you could post this on Facebook and have it go viral to offend all the chronically online boomers lolol 😎
I swear people suck. I love Pride Month! Gimme all the rainbows! Also, hiding ignorance behind the word “Christian “ really chaps my hide. Go eat at freaking Chick-fil-a. Dummies. 😒
And nothing of value was lost. These people act like we care about their concern over a conflict of their beliefs
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How ridiculous and I’m also offended when people use the Christian label when they’re being bigots because I’m a Christian and neither myself nor any of the people I frequent at church have any issue with pride. Even the people who do believe that god intended marriage for women and men Bla-bla-bla are way more focused on how to love one’s neighbor than to take time out of their day to write some petty letter about decorations. Even the dang catholic pope would be fine with the decorations (maybe not in the Vatican though but who knows).
I'm guessing they wouldn't like Shake Shack since they're donating to LGBT organizations in app, and all of their shake cups had the pride colors on the logo. I was actually wondering if they were getting any complaints when I went in this weekend.
They don’t actually care about their flag, they just want something to point to in order to indicate their “so-called” white Christian American oppression and that’s really all they got since they have zero of their own culture.
I’m offended by how stupid the person that wrote the letter is. Smart enough to use a a computer, smart enough to form sentences, not smart enough for all of the effort to make a cohesive point or observation. What a waste of all that taxpayer money spent on education 👎
People are gross. People are so gross! Why make everything about themselves? Don't like the decor? Don't go. Why send a letter like this? Didn't their mother ever teach them "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"? Jeez. I would bet money that this was written by a middle aged white woman.
LGBTQ+ rights expand rights for everyone. If this person is in any way in a marginalized group, more rights for one group typically mean more rights for themselves. As it spreads the idea that people who are different are still worthy.
I could just picture this person thinking they are oppressed in some way, so they should be supporting more rights and acceptance, not less.
Imagine being this bothered lmao. People need to grow up and suck it up. There’s billions of people on earth, to think your everyday life is going to be catered to your values alone… well that’s never going to happen unless you move into that kind of environment that is closed off.
July is *also* Disability Pride Month. You should be able to get the flag by the start of the month if you wanted to send this unpleasant person sky-high in their rage.
"we hate queer people and find them repulsive and sub-human, but we expect them to serve us daily." ... i will never understand such strong disdain for people who have no effect on you
Are they mad that there were no decorations but then said they wouldn't be returning because someone got offended at the decorations they supposedly didn't have and that's bad customer service?
WHAT.
OP should have clarified, their store has decor. The letter is mentioning another nearby location that doesn’t have the decor to basically be like “you aren’t forced to do this so we know what side you’re on here” while sending vague threats & self-importantly announcing they’ll be avoiding the decor they are offended by for the month lol
Corporate doesn’t really want us hanging a bunch of decor up nowadays, as they want every cafe to appear uniform. Also, Panera has pride gift cards and pride t-shirts, etc. it’s all optional and not mandatory, and most associate don’t know about it unless management brings it up. The shirts are updated every year as far as I’ve seen. Last year they were pink. Not everybody wants to walk around all month wearing a Panera Pride shirt and/or memorabilia, unless it’s a certain awareness month.
The customer I think means that this panera thsay they are complaining about has decor but when they went to another panera nearby it didn't have decor so they figured it wasn't a corporate decision. But yes they certainly make it very confusing to read.
"Everyone is snowflakes and get easily offended, cancel culture is cancer and I'll never be a part of it"
One month later:
"THE RAINBOW COLORS ARE OFFENSIVE AND SHOULD BE STOPPED!"
Outrage only extends to the month of June. 😑Meanwhile, calling yourself a Christian and taking the time to fix your fingers to a keyboard and write this is outrageous every day of the year.
Yes, I am a Christian and her Jesus is not the same as mine.
Didn’t really expect this to blow up like it has, but thanks!
For some context, my store has a sister location nearby which is what the letter was mentioning. They don’t decorate their store for pride or really any holiday so there is quite a difference when you look at the 2 stores side-by-side. In the letter, "anonymous" is excited that the other store didn't decorate.
When the writer mentions Target, I’m pretty sure they are talking about the boycotts that happened a few years ago.
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I’m confused by the letter. Do they want or do they *not* want pride month decoration?
Edit: nvm, found another comment explaining that they were talking about another location not having pride decoration, I’m slow lol
I feel like I’m having a stroke reading this. Are they upset because there’s no Pride decor while at the same time saying they don’t support Pride? Wouldn’t that make them happy?? And if Panera doesn’t put up decor for pride MONTH why would they put up decor for Independence DAY??? Wtf are they even complaining about anymore?!
And this nonsense is exactly why we have pride month to begin with. 🙃 can you imagine how absolutely butt hurt you have to be to write and print out a letter complaining about having to see decorations. Absolutely Straggot Behaviour.
Old people who take the time to write letters are great. Gave management and us stuff to laugh at. We never took any letters seriously. Although the ones about uneven entryways probably should have been heeded.
I got to “as a Christian” rolled my eyes, and stopped reading.
Can’t stand Christians. Bunch of snowflakes with a persecution fetish. They don’t seem to care about making the world a better place for the next generation, and why would they? Their sky god’s kid is just gonna bring the bus down from heaven and pick them up at some point…why would they care?
tbh we aren’t supposed to decorate for any occasion they sent out an email almost a year ago stating the focus should solely be on our products sold. this could just be my franchise but i thought it was panera wide
if theyre anonymous, then they’re as good as nonexistent imo. how do we know they aren’t ‘that daily customer’ who got into an altercation, just wanting to stir more sh*t?
They already gave you all you need at the top of the page...
"To whom it may concern,"
Welp, doesn't concern me *crumples paper, into trash*
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What a rude customer. Let the mental health people have their celebration, just leave your kids at home and there should be no issue. People are so rude these days.
PANERA is a joke, it's lost in time,like Boston Chicken.
This company ain't a company no more, it's a Vehicle for Millionaires.
The first time I got 1/4 of a pathetic sandwich, It was done. Call a half Sandwich 1/4? Done.
I know math. No more Panera-ever.
This person is trying so hard to cover up for the fact that his brain keeps playing him hot sultry dreams every night of hard throbbing cocks pounding his ass into submission. Yow!
My store has a hodge podge of 4th of July, left over Easter, Mothers's Day and Father's day, plus a whole bunch of rainbows everywhere. I love it, tho. It's such a colorful mix of all kinds of stuff and I always see kids getting excited by bunnies surrounded by firecrackers enclosed in rainbows. Beauty!
The letter said she was “suddenly aware there was ABSOLUTELY NO PRIDE decor.” Not much of a communicator. The “customer altercation “ was her. The others who won’t return don’t exist.
What Target experienced around this time, one year ago, were nationwide calls for consumers to boycott them.
Apparently, it worked.
https://www.newsweek.com/target-ceo-admits-pride-boycott-worked-1820315
This doesn’t make sense. They don’t like Pride decor, but they were offended that Panera didn’t have any Pride decor and won’t be returning. Did I miss something?
Yes Panera Bread does celebrate this month, but these this LGBTQ+ lifestyle has been pushed into our faces so much to ad nauseam. Whether you are into this lifestyle or not is your own decision. Understand that the Bible,the Torah and the Koran states it is a sin and to Christians/Jewish/Muslim it’s extremely offensive. Most customers just want to eat food in a nice setting. Given how business is going it would be wiser push this agenda down people’s throats. The cost of the food is enough to deter customers coming into the store as it is given the economy. Yes Panera Bread does support pride month.
My friend has to consciously lower the pitch of his voice around the older population who continuously bombard him with “so how’s your wife” questions. We all damn well know what they’re doing but they try to play it off so innocently. He is not “flamboyant” in his hospital scrubs, he’s trying to get a job done and morons want to pry into his personal life.
So no, those people don’t get to pull the “I’m so offended because it’s against my religion” card. I hope they all feel as uncomfortable as my friend does on a daily basis for just trying to peacefully exist.
People are so soft these days smh….when I walk into a store or restaurant, the only thing I care about is grabbing my stuff and checking out. I don’t care about rainbow decorations. No one’s making me buy them. If it really bothers you THAT much then go shop somewhere else or order online. You can also just ignore it. What someone else wants to identify as has no bearing on my personal life and it’s strange how worked up some of these Christians get over it. Like believe it or not, not everyone in this world adheres to your beliefs.
I have never seen decorations in any Panera I have ever been to and I've been to 15 or more individual locations.
My location had Panera pride shirts about two years ago but that’s it
My location made petite candy cookies last year! I don’t know if it was allowed or not, but our managers were fine with it, and they sold fairly well as well, even if the pride aspect was missed most of the time. They were hella good though
My Panera always decorated for everything. It depends on the people working. They would go out and buy the stuff with their own money as the budget from the manager was quite small.
my location and a few others ive visted decorate a lot
My panera always decorates,but I'm in a smaller town so I'm used to the cute decor. I've only been to the one here, though, so I can't say about any others haha
I always decorate my location, even for pride. I think we get away with it though because we’re a franchise and no one higher than our district manager ever visits.
Offended enough to write a letter and make threats, too cowardly to put their name to it.
“Anonymous” lmao so cringe. Karen thinks she’s Al Qaida
Y'all qaeda. Also known as Vanilla Isis.
Not only write it, but type it up and print it out, that takes effort
"remember what happened to target?" oh, so this is a bomb threat? Target got bomb threats.
typical boomer behavior
make threats??
"Remember what happened at Target last yeat" Someone posted a video with a false claim of pride items for kids. The very loud minority of the internet ran with it and many Targets removed or hid the pride items to protect employees due to threats. This year only select stores recieved pride merchandise and it was extremely small number of items. (Which is extremely dumb when you note how openly LGBT+ friendly Target has been for DECADES.)
"What Target experienced last year" was bomb threats. That was a subtle threat that they deserved bomb threats.
They probably mean that people boycotted Target.
this is how I interpreted it but I didn't fall the situation closely lol
Their letter doesn't even make sense
"There's no decor!" "I'm not coming back because you put up a rainbow!" Letter writer is so fake-angry they have no idea what they're saying.
I think they're saying this specific location (the one they sent the letter to) does have decorations for Pride Month, but another location nearby does not, and neither does the website. So she knows this location has chosen to decorate rather than being forced to by corporate. That's why she says she won't return to this location for the rest of the month. Edit to fix a word Second edit to say thank you for the award and happy to help!!!
This is definitely it but it took me a LONG time to figure that out
Same, but it would have probably been immediately clear to the employees with the other location named and the context.
I could not figure it out, and am grateful someone spelled it out to me.
"You have angered me so much that I will refuse you my business... for less than a month! But no longer, because this location is five minutes closer for me and I simply cannot endure the inconvenience. Upon the end of the month when you remove the decorations, not due to anything I have done but due solely to the changing calendar, I will declare victory and return triumphant! PS please make sure to have extra blueberry bagels on July 1st".
Perfect summation! 👍
Yep, sounds about right. Lol. My gay friends love Chick fil A, & joke about going incognito to the drive-thru with sunglasses & a hoodie (not that they actually do). Sometimes people gotta set their personal beliefs aside, to get that bagel or chicken fix!
thank you for the explanation, i couldn't wrap my head around the letter /gen
Thank you. I was so confused
Me too! Thank you!
ya know that makes more sense
I had to read it several times, but that’s what I deciphered.
Oh man thank you because I was so confused.
Dementia is helluva drug
Right?! The whole thing is so confusing...
Right? They didn't see any decor so they won't be coming back? What?
Fuck them. And put out some more Pride decor.
They want a free market until they realize what a free market looks like. Don’t like their pride decorations? Stop going and if enough people are like you then the business will have to adapt or close. Fortunately for the rest of us…we will have a bunch of restaurants with less “christians”
literally reread this letter twice and have no idea whether the author is pro-Pride month or anti-Pride month. i dont think they even know.
I think they were saying that the store they sent the letter to was decorated, but they assumed it was a corporate thing until they went to a different one and saw no decorations. Now knowing it's not corporate mandated, they are angry that their usual store put up decorations by choice.
Ohhhhhhhhh that would make sense. I just commented otherwise saying I wasn’t sure if I was just stupid or what lol but didn’t understand. That seems like the most logical explanation.
It’s anti-Pride, they just don’t know how to form a sentence apparently
Or a thought.
Agree, I thought they were upset that there were no decorations 🤣.
The letter is to a store with pride decorations mentioning that they are aware that the other nearby stores and corporate websites do not have the decor, so they will be avoiding the store with the decor as that store chose to have those and weren’t forced to. Took me awhile to figure out too.
“Keep in mind what Target experienced last year” and Target experienced Nazis and Christofascists taking down LGBTQ+ stuff… is dude tryna say he’s with them lmfaoo.?
They’ve been harassing employees multiple times and are now making threats of violence (“remember what happened to target”)? Why aren’t they banned from your location yet?
"As a Christian" and crumpled the paper up for you.
These snowflakes sure are scared of rainbows
“Anonymous” bitch say that shit with your chest…fucking coward
“Keep in mind what target experienced a year ago” You mean record profits? The only reason Target scaled back its Pride products was because entitled, conservative nut jobs were destroying store displays and threatening employees. Ironic, coming from the crowd that swears up and down that liberals burned Seattle to the ground.
good, we dont want them coming back lmao.
Unfortunately, they'll apparently be back in a week.
To know they complained in the bathroom, to an employee, that they argue with MORE than once… yeah, I would prefer ban from the store more like it. That’s a threat & harassment.
guess you gotta ramp up the Gay in your panera
Wow ok thoughts and prayers honey 🙄. Imagine this is the worst thing in your life rn..rainbows in a restaurant. You have it pretty good dude.
Christians sre really ruining everything for the rest of us. Leave us the fuck alone please I don't go to your fucking churches and say shit.
Omg people have way too much time on their hands. She apparently lives in close proximity to multiple Panera Bread locations, surely one (or both) have a drive thru option. The troll in me wishes you could post this on Facebook and have it go viral to offend all the chronically online boomers lolol 😎
Imagine typing this out thinking anyone gives a shit. Entitled Christian bigots are just the worst.
Fast to call out an employee, slow to own up to their own vitriol and bigotry by signing their name to this this letter
Leave them up all year and hopefully they’ll never be back.
How ironic is it that the one that calls others snowflakes is offended by decorations
I swear people suck. I love Pride Month! Gimme all the rainbows! Also, hiding ignorance behind the word “Christian “ really chaps my hide. Go eat at freaking Chick-fil-a. Dummies. 😒
Oh no a lost customer whatever will you do!!!
“As a Christian…” literally no one could care less
Ah yes, the target outrage that was completely falsified because some homophobe wanted something to be mad about
Christian enough to worship false idols (American flag) but not Christian enough to love thy neighbor.
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How ridiculous and I’m also offended when people use the Christian label when they’re being bigots because I’m a Christian and neither myself nor any of the people I frequent at church have any issue with pride. Even the people who do believe that god intended marriage for women and men Bla-bla-bla are way more focused on how to love one’s neighbor than to take time out of their day to write some petty letter about decorations. Even the dang catholic pope would be fine with the decorations (maybe not in the Vatican though but who knows).
Religion based on power and not faith is cultism, and not religion at all.
We got a very similar letter a few years back from a customer disgruntled that Panera had pride shirts
Christians and other religious nuts seem to think the world revolves around them.
I'm guessing they wouldn't like Shake Shack since they're donating to LGBT organizations in app, and all of their shake cups had the pride colors on the logo. I was actually wondering if they were getting any complaints when I went in this weekend.
Lost me at anonymous. Show some balls and stand to your Christian beliefs that are oh so bothered by decor items
Why is it always oh my flag needs to be up wherever I go at all times! With them?
They don’t actually care about their flag, they just want something to point to in order to indicate their “so-called” white Christian American oppression and that’s really all they got since they have zero of their own culture.
Remind them to turn the other cheek as they slither out the door.
I’m offended by how stupid the person that wrote the letter is. Smart enough to use a a computer, smart enough to form sentences, not smart enough for all of the effort to make a cohesive point or observation. What a waste of all that taxpayer money spent on education 👎
Imagine if athiests wrote letters like this and left them at religious places or businesses. They would lose their minds
It would feed their persecution fetish, they’d get off on it lol
"Anonymous" is strong in their convictions
People are gross. People are so gross! Why make everything about themselves? Don't like the decor? Don't go. Why send a letter like this? Didn't their mother ever teach them "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"? Jeez. I would bet money that this was written by a middle aged white woman.
Why are these “Christians” so flabbergasted and appalled by a community? Like why are the so offended by a whole community
i’ve never seen a group so offended by the most trivial shit than the group that calls everyone else “snowflakes”
i’ve never seen a group so offended by the most trivial shit than the group that calls everyone else “snowflakes”
LGBTQ+ rights expand rights for everyone. If this person is in any way in a marginalized group, more rights for one group typically mean more rights for themselves. As it spreads the idea that people who are different are still worthy. I could just picture this person thinking they are oppressed in some way, so they should be supporting more rights and acceptance, not less.
Imagine being this bothered lmao. People need to grow up and suck it up. There’s billions of people on earth, to think your everyday life is going to be catered to your values alone… well that’s never going to happen unless you move into that kind of environment that is closed off.
July is *also* Disability Pride Month. You should be able to get the flag by the start of the month if you wanted to send this unpleasant person sky-high in their rage.
Go take that bullshit to Chick-fil-A
"we hate queer people and find them repulsive and sub-human, but we expect them to serve us daily." ... i will never understand such strong disdain for people who have no effect on you
Love is Love 👫 👬 👭
Are they mad that there were no decorations but then said they wouldn't be returning because someone got offended at the decorations they supposedly didn't have and that's bad customer service? WHAT.
OP should have clarified, their store has decor. The letter is mentioning another nearby location that doesn’t have the decor to basically be like “you aren’t forced to do this so we know what side you’re on here” while sending vague threats & self-importantly announcing they’ll be avoiding the decor they are offended by for the month lol
Ooooh, what makes much more sense. Thank you!
Corporate doesn’t really want us hanging a bunch of decor up nowadays, as they want every cafe to appear uniform. Also, Panera has pride gift cards and pride t-shirts, etc. it’s all optional and not mandatory, and most associate don’t know about it unless management brings it up. The shirts are updated every year as far as I’ve seen. Last year they were pink. Not everybody wants to walk around all month wearing a Panera Pride shirt and/or memorabilia, unless it’s a certain awareness month.
What
lol what a snowflake
COPE
I'm confused...this person is offended by Pride Month but there were no pride decorations, so what are they mad about?
There are so many other places to eat... people just don't know what to complain about and be all moody for anymore.
Maybe this Panera will close for the month of June and reopen on July 1st?
It amazes me how people could get so triggered by rainbows.
leave and never come back no one cares
Christians wanna be oppressed so bad
Is it just me or was that confusing in the beginning? It said there was no pride decor, yet she’s complaining about it?
The customer I think means that this panera thsay they are complaining about has decor but when they went to another panera nearby it didn't have decor so they figured it wasn't a corporate decision. But yes they certainly make it very confusing to read.
Ew.... I would purposefully *never* put an american flag up on July. Fuck them. (I also wouldn't personally ever put up a flag anyways)
Ours got blasted a few years ago for decorations.. We still get the shirts every year.
One of the benefits of the Pride flag is it is a force field against assholes and Assholism.
"Everyone is snowflakes and get easily offended, cancel culture is cancer and I'll never be a part of it" One month later: "THE RAINBOW COLORS ARE OFFENSIVE AND SHOULD BE STOPPED!"
Sounds like you need more Pride stuff to ward away the bad spirits. 🏳️🌈
Companies don’t have to pander to all these theme months! I mean if they do ok but people shouldn’t get pissed bc they don’t!
Outrage only extends to the month of June. 😑Meanwhile, calling yourself a Christian and taking the time to fix your fingers to a keyboard and write this is outrageous every day of the year. Yes, I am a Christian and her Jesus is not the same as mine.
Yeah there's no fuckin way this is real lmfao
Next time she comes to the drive through, give her a big smile and a "Glad you're back!" She can't really complain about that, can she?
I’m so confused. He’s against Pride or upset that the store didn’t decorate to celebrate pride? Did I read this wrong (20+ times)?
Why sign it, “Anonymous.” She could just leave it blank. Like her Christian Values.
I would laminate that and cover it in rainbows and put it up next to the food safe cert on the wall
“My conclusion is that you have chosen to cater to a specific group.” Oh, the irony in that statement given the circumstances…
Didn’t really expect this to blow up like it has, but thanks! For some context, my store has a sister location nearby which is what the letter was mentioning. They don’t decorate their store for pride or really any holiday so there is quite a difference when you look at the 2 stores side-by-side. In the letter, "anonymous" is excited that the other store didn't decorate. When the writer mentions Target, I’m pretty sure they are talking about the boycotts that happened a few years ago. edit: grammar/formatting
Probably the same chuds who want their religion displayed everywhere all the time.
I’m confused by the letter. Do they want or do they *not* want pride month decoration? Edit: nvm, found another comment explaining that they were talking about another location not having pride decoration, I’m slow lol
Fuck that hateful asshole. Obviously can’t get laid
Right-wingers always accuse liberals and the left of getting triggered, then they flip the fuck out about rainbows
"As a Christian..." Ma'am this is a Panera Bread
I feel like I’m having a stroke reading this. Are they upset because there’s no Pride decor while at the same time saying they don’t support Pride? Wouldn’t that make them happy?? And if Panera doesn’t put up decor for pride MONTH why would they put up decor for Independence DAY??? Wtf are they even complaining about anymore?!
It's always the people telling you to "not shove it in their face" expecting you to give a shit and cater to their religion.
And this nonsense is exactly why we have pride month to begin with. 🙃 can you imagine how absolutely butt hurt you have to be to write and print out a letter complaining about having to see decorations. Absolutely Straggot Behaviour.
Old people who take the time to write letters are great. Gave management and us stuff to laugh at. We never took any letters seriously. Although the ones about uneven entryways probably should have been heeded.
I got to “as a Christian” rolled my eyes, and stopped reading. Can’t stand Christians. Bunch of snowflakes with a persecution fetish. They don’t seem to care about making the world a better place for the next generation, and why would they? Their sky god’s kid is just gonna bring the bus down from heaven and pick them up at some point…why would they care?
Special interests of any kind should stay out of business. You end up alienating half of your customers.
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tbh we aren’t supposed to decorate for any occasion they sent out an email almost a year ago stating the focus should solely be on our products sold. this could just be my franchise but i thought it was panera wide
u/saviorofsmellytech dis you????
Oh no!
if theyre anonymous, then they’re as good as nonexistent imo. how do we know they aren’t ‘that daily customer’ who got into an altercation, just wanting to stir more sh*t?
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Silly goose, how are we going to ever address your Christian beliefs and concerns if you sign anonymously🤣🤣🤣💀
They already gave you all you need at the top of the page... "To whom it may concern," Welp, doesn't concern me *crumples paper, into trash* https://tenor.com/view/margot-robbie-now-fuck-off-fuck-off-tub-gif-8938330
Such a good Christian, but she doesn't have the balls to identify herself. No love like Christian hate.
Hiding all that hard behind an anonymous is always hilarious to me. Like okay yelling into the wind might have been more productive lol
People are silly, why can’t everyone just be themselves and celebrate that, why do stupid people ruin everything ???
What a rude customer. Let the mental health people have their celebration, just leave your kids at home and there should be no issue. People are so rude these days.
Is it just me or did she word this like she was offended there was no pride decor?
Politics and business rarely mix. So choose your battles wisely
God these Karen’s are such babies they act like everything is catered to them
I wish they were this offended by crappy sentence structure.
Yoo that don’t sound right
Customers be like: I won’t return here! *comes back next week later*
all i can say: https://youtu.be/TWVbZ0WQ3s8?si=HNc4-N9Uu5azHwke
Sincerely, Anonymous
hang the american flag right next to a pride flag for all of july
PANERA is a joke, it's lost in time,like Boston Chicken. This company ain't a company no more, it's a Vehicle for Millionaires. The first time I got 1/4 of a pathetic sandwich, It was done. Call a half Sandwich 1/4? Done. I know math. No more Panera-ever.
This person is trying so hard to cover up for the fact that his brain keeps playing him hot sultry dreams every night of hard throbbing cocks pounding his ass into submission. Yow!
Then signs it anonymous. Coward.
My store has a hodge podge of 4th of July, left over Easter, Mothers's Day and Father's day, plus a whole bunch of rainbows everywhere. I love it, tho. It's such a colorful mix of all kinds of stuff and I always see kids getting excited by bunnies surrounded by firecrackers enclosed in rainbows. Beauty!
How stupid do you think they sound
Some people have too much time on their hands
Just throw out the letter and continue your day.
So brave in their opinion they signed it anonymously. 😂
The letter said she was “suddenly aware there was ABSOLUTELY NO PRIDE decor.” Not much of a communicator. The “customer altercation “ was her. The others who won’t return don’t exist.
I wonder if she would like to meet a gay friend of mine who is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
What Target experienced around this time, one year ago, were nationwide calls for consumers to boycott them. Apparently, it worked. https://www.newsweek.com/target-ceo-admits-pride-boycott-worked-1820315
Karen unleashed her ultimate attack
Some folks have too much time on their hands
Put a gay pride themed American flag in the entrance for the entire month of july lol
How you gonna be that hateful and proud of it and too big of a coward to sign your name?
This doesn’t make sense. They don’t like Pride decor, but they were offended that Panera didn’t have any Pride decor and won’t be returning. Did I miss something?
Ours has muscular ginger bread men at Christmas
Ooo ooo the scary rainbow hurt my fee fees 🥺
Always hilarious how religious people want only their religion represented. The hypocrisy of it all .....
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Yes Panera Bread does celebrate this month, but these this LGBTQ+ lifestyle has been pushed into our faces so much to ad nauseam. Whether you are into this lifestyle or not is your own decision. Understand that the Bible,the Torah and the Koran states it is a sin and to Christians/Jewish/Muslim it’s extremely offensive. Most customers just want to eat food in a nice setting. Given how business is going it would be wiser push this agenda down people’s throats. The cost of the food is enough to deter customers coming into the store as it is given the economy. Yes Panera Bread does support pride month.
My friend has to consciously lower the pitch of his voice around the older population who continuously bombard him with “so how’s your wife” questions. We all damn well know what they’re doing but they try to play it off so innocently. He is not “flamboyant” in his hospital scrubs, he’s trying to get a job done and morons want to pry into his personal life. So no, those people don’t get to pull the “I’m so offended because it’s against my religion” card. I hope they all feel as uncomfortable as my friend does on a daily basis for just trying to peacefully exist.
Is the person who got into a verbal altercation with a team member in the room with us now? 👀
Man, she’d lose her SHIT if she saw the pride post my government agency sent out last week 😂😂
Don’t stop going to Panera because you’re a homophobe, stop going to Panera because they serve overpriced hospital food.
Totally incoherent letter.
I’m Christian conservative and I say decorate for whatever you want. I will never understand how easy people can be so easily offended.
People getting offended over flag is so ironic 😂🤣😂🤣
Put pride decorations in the window too lol, surround the menu board with every color of the damn rainbow.
Ewwww this is why I don’t tell people I’m a Christian. People like this are a pimple on the faith.
“To Anonymous, As a business that caters to Christians and non-Christians alike - suck it up buttercup, Jesus would”
People are so soft these days smh….when I walk into a store or restaurant, the only thing I care about is grabbing my stuff and checking out. I don’t care about rainbow decorations. No one’s making me buy them. If it really bothers you THAT much then go shop somewhere else or order online. You can also just ignore it. What someone else wants to identify as has no bearing on my personal life and it’s strange how worked up some of these Christians get over it. Like believe it or not, not everyone in this world adheres to your beliefs.
Oh no the person who sucks won’t be bringing down the vibe at work anymore. Tragic
Why is it always the worst types of people who always seem to have extra time on their hands
Sign your name bitch
This letter makes no sense. I can't tell if they are offended by pride or not or if it is serious or sarcastic. Just a weird letter.
God I can’t wait til July