The plan is to give Panera a presence in retail spaces it's not currently in, like hospitals and universities.
Panera Bread is buying the cafe restaurant chain that its CEO Ron Shaich co-founded more than three and half decades ago.
Both chains are fast-casual chains known for their sandwiches, salads, soups and pastries. Au Bon Pain currently has 304 locations worldwide, including many in hospitals, universities, transportation hubs and urban office buildings.
The acquisition will enable Panera, a chain that promotes its healthy offerings, to catapult into new types of retail environments, it announced Wednesday.
"With the acquisition we are announcing today, we are bringing Au Bon Pain and Panera together again," Shaich said in a statement.
St. Louis-based Panera didn't disclose the terms of the deal. which is expected to close during the fourth quarter. Au Bon Pain officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Au Bon Pain news came half an hour before Shaich announced that he's stepping down step down as CEO effective Jan. 1, but will remain chairman of Panera's board of directors.
He said he'll continue to work on strategy, communications and acquisitions for Panera, plus focus on his personal investments and initiatives for JAB, which acquired Panera in July.
Replacing Shaich as CEO is Blaine Hurst, Panera's president who joined the company in January 2011 after a stint as president at Papa John's.
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"This is the right time for me to step down as CEO while still staying involved in the business as chairman," Shaich said. "I've now completed 36 years as a leader of our company and I'm particularly pleased to be able to say that Panera has been the best-performing restaurant stock of the last 20 years."
His denouement is very much like that of Howard Schultz, who stepped down as CEO of Starbucks in April to become executive chairman. Both men are known for their outspokenness on social issues and for spending more than 30 years building small cafe companies into global brands that have become one with their own identities.
Shaich prides himself on Panera's push into digital, 100% clean menu and loyalty program.
Shaich and Louis Kane created Au Bon Pain in 1981 and the company went public a decade later. In 1993, Au Bon Pain acquired the Saint Louis Bread, which was renamed Panera. Six years later, Au Bon Pain was sold off.
Luxembourg-based investment firm JAB, which also controls the Krispy Kreme chain and coffee brands Keurig and Caribou, acquired Panera out $7.5 billion this summer and took the company private.
Last month, Wall Street speculated that JAB wanted to buy Dunkin' Brands, which includes another mighty coffee chain Dunkin' Donuts.
As of late September, Panera had 2,050 locations in 46 states and Ontario, operating under the Panera Bread, Saint Louis Bread Co. or Paradise Bakery & Cafe names.


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Did any of you heard about Timerium project? Or maybe Minerium dev commented here. Pretty interesting project, kind of minerium clone, but with the fix maximum supply.
I have a question, eventhough I believe in MNE as a great product and addition to the crypto world, how will it generate value for it's holders? I mean, bitcoin rose in value because people compared it to digital gold and as a new payment system. Eth rose in value because of the smart contract applications, and as a safe haven in the crypto world. Tonnes of other coins all have their ways of growing in value, but MNE still hasn't answered that question to me. In the world app people can earn coins for free. The token creation also is relatively cheap. How will MNE ever go back to it's all time high or higher, other than speculation that the price will actually rise?
There is a continuous flow of development and don't forget that the token 2.0 release soon will require MNE to purchase. Those MNE's will be burned so the total supply of coins will decrease which will drive the rate to a much higher level.
I would suggest to reserve some coins to acquire the new token once it gets released and spread over both for risk reduction.
Take a look at some of the recent ICO's, a lot of promises in the roadmap and whitepaper but most of those still need to proof if they can bring a vialable business model to the blockchain. Minereum is already releasing update after update and the development of the rate shows that even in this phase it's not easy to uphold a certain level of value. What will happen to all those ICO's when there first release does not meet expectation? Image what will happen if you hold any of those coins?
Minereum did not start with an ICO, is only 2 months old and is already moving ahead in development. That does say something right, agree?
Btw: Low supply often means a high volatile value development. Currently the whole market is down and will be until August 1. When Btc doesn't fork money will flow back quickly into the market and most Alts will see some big increases.
Let's just wait till everything will be put into place. Just like Bitcoin when it started, no one really knows what is its use and no one even thought that it could grow to the value it has grown now.
The 32 000 tokens will be fully available only after 42 years at the rate of 1.8 per day.
This was actually correct, and it is 1.8 MNE per day, because it is tied on the eth minings process as well. That's why it is called self mining contract.
Thanks, I've literally lost all of my crypto holdings in this hack, after what modest portfolio I did have has been stolen from me.
He is taking out my MNE daily since the hack began. The last withdrawal was yesterday, and there'll probably be another one today.
I was one of the earliest supporters of this project, and an OG with integrity. All can be verified. Please help Minereum Dev.
No today balance is 160,84 MNE.
So my formula is wrong.
Can you tell me the good formula please ?
You guys realize that Minereum uses ETHEREUM addresses, meaning the MNE dev cant do anything if you dont secure your private key/someone accesses your account.
unfortunately, once your private key/pw for keystone file is known, there is no way to secure the account again.
If you are using MEW, ALWAYS use it with a hardware wallet (trezor, ledger) so that it never sends yuor private key.
If you arent going to be using a hardware wallet, make sure you create your MEW addresses/passwords OFFLINE, and on a fresh operating system install, also do the same when you are logging in, for full security.
Never go to myetherwallet from a link, bookmark the page and only click the bookmark you have.
For more security, MEW has some guidelines as well. Sorry this happened to you, at least you will know in the future.
There are not exists good formula due the rise ethereum block time.
The block time rised from ~15 sec in the May to 18.5 sec now.
More block time - less blocks per day, so less MNE per day.
With 18.5 sec: 4670 blocks per day, 4670 * 0.00032 = 1.5 MNE per day.
So the reward is lower now, only 1.5 MNE per day.
https://etherscan.io/chart/blocktime - block time chart.
I am sorry to here this,I think if you lost your private key,u lost the money.anyone cannot help you. you should withdraw all other token and ETH, and not use this wallet anymore. I advise you releasing the private key here as another free genesis address,then the hacker cannot withdraw MNE easy from the wallet.
This is a sad story to hear. Don't ever share your private key to anyone else, most especially when browsing sites like myetherwallet or the like. Make sure the site is legit/authentic/secure. Many hackers nowadays copy the looks of the websites used for creating/accessing crypto wallets.
If you are open into donating your genesis address to the people who are active in this forum, feel free to share your blessings. At least, the hacker will be having a hard time accessing your remaining MNE.
These web based wallet which functions on private keys have advantages and disadvantages. When you are doing important things where financial risks are involved then should always take extra security measures to ensure your money is safe. Always use good antivirus program and avoid clinking unnecessary links received by unknown sources. Others have lot to learn from this story to avoid similar losses.
Yeah its a sad story to hear, but honestly, we dont know the full story, are you selling your MNE private key on the early times? That might cause it as well, or maybe some phishing attack? If phishing attack it is, just change your eth address and withdraw all funds, and about MNE, you cant do anything about it anymore, just stop whining.
We invest our money to buy Minereums. Even our Ethereum coins were used to bought Minereums because we appreciated the idea of token creation. It's very creative. Thanks.
Me too... I am also a believer of Minereum. We spent our money to invest in Minereum. Hoping to see this project to be successful. Our friends invested their money too. May God bless us all.
Appears to be a great move considering the rapid decline of btc and eth at the moment. Better own 100 MNE then 1 ETH as this point and with the token 2.0 to be released soon we hopefully see a nice recovery of MNE > August 3rd when a lot of money flows back into the market.
Current low supply and the burning of MNE tokens once 2.0 goes live will have a stimulating effect on the invested value, new liquidity can chase this value up to new heights.
What is the difference between MNE version 1 & version 2?
Is this kind of a surprise? What are the steps in receiving the MNE v.2 ?
We hope to receive Genesis Block version 2. We need your support on how to understand the coming version 2.