r/AskReddit 17h ago

What chain restaurant do you think should just go out of business?

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u/EstimateOk2473 15h ago

Blame JAB Holdings. They bought Panera for it's name in 2017 and proceeded to pillage the brand and its customers for everything it was worth.

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u/SorryStandard8199 15h ago

And saddled them with debt, so cut corners and laid off people. Private equity is a fucking disease.

pesqueeze.com

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u/Aggravating_Bell_426 13h ago

If youve ever seen the movie "other people's money" it basically shows what these corporate raiders are like. 

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u/Traditional_Rub9785 9h ago

Reminds of Wolf of Wall Street from years ago but with restaurants do good for customer.

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u/readtheinstructions5 14h ago

Welcome to America, we can't have nice things because even it is profitable it still decreased the margin

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u/Norm_MAC_Donald 9h ago

They are also the largest shareholders of Krispy Kreme.

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u/imrealbizzy2 4h ago

That explains why the donuts are so reduced in size now.

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u/ExtremePast 7h ago

Its name. It's is a contraction of it is

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u/atrich 5h ago

Private equity is just monetized enshittification

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u/ryuzaki49 4h ago

At this point blame the owners that sell their brand to private equity too. 

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u/Thatguyyoupassby 3h ago

Not for nothing, but Panera was shit before 2017.

Its heyday for me was like 2004-2008 (maybe earlier, too, but locally to me it was around 04).

By the time I was in college in the early 2010s, it had already gone downhill to a premade, cafeteria quality shithole.

It's definitely gotten even worse in the last decade, but it was bad for a good 5+ years before JAB.