Panera Catering Prices at a Glance

There are three ways to buy catering Panera Bread offers: pre-built bundles, individually boxed meals, and shared platters or containers. This table shows the whole range. Treat any Panera menu catering table, including this one, as a guide to the order of magnitude rather than a quote.

Format	What it is	Serves	Price range
Popular Bundles	Pre-built combos for breakfast, lunch, snacks	5 each	$24.24–$174.31
Boxed breakfast	One individually packed item	1	$7.69–$11.29
Bakery spreads	Pastries, bagels, scones	4–18	$8.79–$76.49
Boxed lunch	Individually packed sandwich or salad	1	$10.99–$18.19
Sandwich assortments	Shared platters	5–20	$31.49–$309.99
Group salads	Large shared salad	10	$57.69–$86.29
Group soup or mac and cheese	One container	4	$20.99–$27.99
Drink totes	Hot and cold drinks	7–8 hot, 8 cold	$13.99–$23.49

Panera Bread Catering Menu with Prices by Category

This is the catering menu Panera publishes online, organized so you can compare formats. Seasonal items (pumpkin pastries, Autumn Squash Soup) may not be available all year.

Popular Bundles

Bundles are pre-built meals that each feed five people. They save planning time, but they aren’t always the cheapest route. Below are the prices and calories of each bundle with and without drinks. 

Individual Boxed Lunch Bundles

Each guest gets a labeled box, which keeps a seated meeting orderly. These suit Panera catering menu boxed lunches or group meetings alike. 

Sandwich boxes include chips and a cookie (plus a pickle with cold sandwiches). Boxed salads come with a French baguette and a cookie. 

Individual Boxed Breakfast Bundles

Individually boxed breakfasts come with a fruit cup, which makes them the tidiest choice for a morning meeting. Pricing is for five boxes. 

Breakfast Bundles

These shared bundles suit Panera catering breakfast orders where guests serve themselves. They cost far less per person than boxed bundles. 

Lunch Bundles

Lunch bundles combine shared sandwiches, salads or soups with sides. Soups & Salads are not available before 10:00 AM. 

Entertaining Bundles

Entertaining bundles are the largest and most complete: they add fruit, brownies, mac and cheese or a pastry assortment. 

Snack Bundles

Snack bundles are the cheapest bundles: fruit cups paired with pastries or sweets, sized for five. 

Two patterns stand out:

• The drinks add-on is a flat charge. It adds $14.58 to every lunch and entertaining sandwich bundle, $31.96 to most breakfast bundles, $33.18 to the boxed-breakfast bundles, and $28.78 to the snack bundles. Panera doesn’t itemize the add-on for every bundle, so check the cart. If you only need coffee, a single tote (listed below) can cost less.
• A bundle isn’t always the cheapest route. The Cold Boxed Sandwiches Bundle ($69.65) equals the individual prices of its five boxed lunches added together, including the $16.29 premium sandwich. Building your own order from the $12.89 sandwiches costs less.

Availability: The Soups & Salads bundle isn’t offered before 10:00 AM. The Cranberry Walnut Chicken Salad Sandwich Boxed Lunch was out of stock at last check, although it appears in the Cold Boxed Sandwiches Bundle. Expect a substitution or confirm at checkout.

Breakfast Catering

Panera breakfast catering splits into shared bakery spreads, individually boxed meals and à la carte items. It’s the most forgiving category, because bagels and pastries hold up when guests arrive at different times. A Panera catered breakfast for a morning meeting can cost as little as $4 per person.

Panera Bakery Catering

Panera bakery catering spreads and bagel packs hold up well when guests arrive at different times. Most items land between $0.92 and 2.57per person,with the Morning Continental(7.65) the main exception. You can also check the prices and calories of full bakery menu.

The Bagel Pack ($17.99) costs 4.50 more than the Baker’s Dozen (13.49) for the same 13 bagels. Cafe listings describe the pack as 13 bagels served with two tubs of cream cheese spreads. Two 8 oz tubs bought separately cost $7.58, so the pack wins if you need spreads, and the Baker’s Dozen wins if you don’t. Panera doesn’t state whether the Baker’s Dozen includes spreads, so check the cart before you pay.

Boxed Breakfasts

Boxed breakfasts serve one person each. The boxed breakfast sandwiches come with a fruit cup.

Egg Sandwiches

Frittatas & Souffles

Parfaits, Fruit & Oatmeal

Sandwich Assortments

Panera sandwiches catering platters feed 5 to 20 people, from $31.49 to $309.99. Panera lists serving ranges but not sandwich size, so don’t assume one full sandwich per guest. 

You Pick Two Boxed Lunches

Kids Catering Menu

The kids menu covers sandwiches, mac and cheese, soup and petite cookies, from $0.56 to $6.25 per person. It’s a low-cost add-on for family events. 

Salads

Panera salad catering comes as group salads serving 10 and as single-serve boxed salads. Anyone comparing Panera catering salad options should watch the effect of chicken: it adds $14.50 to a group salad ($57.69 to $72.19) and $3.20 to a boxed one($12.19 to $15.39).

Catering Salads

Salad Boxed Lunch

Salad Stuffer Boxed Lunches

Salad Stuffer boxed lunches carry the same prices as the matching boxed salad: $15.39 for Caesar with Chicken, Farmhouse Crunch and Harvest Medley; $16.79 for Green Goddess Chicken Cobb and Harvest Medley Chicken; $18.19 for Ultimate Garden Steak. Panera doesn’t describe the format, so read the item description at checkout.

One caution when comparing the two formats. A boxed Fuji Apple Chicken salad costs $15.39, while a share of the group salad costs $7.22. But the boxed salad is listed at 700 calories and the group salad at 3,280 for ten, about 330 per share. The group salad looks sized as a side. If salad is the main course, budget for boxed salads or order more than one group salad.

Boxed Lunches

Seated meetings usually call for Panera catering boxed lunches, priced from $10.99 to $16.29 per sandwich. Shared platters cost less per head, but the savings depend on how much your guests eat. Pick based on how your group will eat, then compare prices below. 

Hot Sandwich Boxed Lunch

Hot boxes suit colder weather and cost $10.99 to $16.29, with calories from 610 to 1,330. This is the full list of Panera bread boxed lunch catering. Items marked  aren’t available before 10:00 AM. 

Cold Sandwich Boxed Lunch

Cold boxes are the cheapest lunch format, with six of the eight options at $12.89. They suit Panera box lunch catering needs when you want a labeled meal for every guest. Calories run from 520 to 940. 

Soups, Mac, and Cheese

Panera soup catering comes in containers serving 4, and every soup is $20.99, or $5.25 per serving.

Mac & Cheese for a Group

Soups for a Group

The calorie figures are for the whole item, not per serving. If Panera Bread catering nutrition details matter for your group, check Panera calories of each menu as given with each menu.

Drinks and Panera Coffee Catering

Panera coffee catering comes as totes serving 7 to 8. Cold Panera catering drinks come as two half-gallon containers serving 8, and the Panera hot chocolate catering option is the Signature Hot Chocolate Tote.

Hot Drink Totes

Totes keep drinks warm for a meeting. The Panera hot chocolate catering tote is the most expensive at $23.49. For a morning meeting of 20, three coffee totes cover 21 to 24 cups for $64.47. 

Cold Drink Totes

Cold totes are cheaper per person than hot ones, mostly $1.75 to $2.25. Each is two half-gallon containers serving 8. 

Individual Soda & Water

Individual bottles and cans suit mixed preferences or small groups. Two-liter bottles cover a casual party for $3.59 each. 

Two Liters of Soda

Two-liter bottles cover a casual party for $3.59 each. 

Individual drinks: bottled water $2.59, Bottled Panera Iced Green Tea $3.89, orange juice $3.49, organic chocolate milk, white milk and apple juice $2.69 each, Pepsi or Diet Pepsi cans $2.19. Two-liter bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Starry are $3.59. For a morning meeting of 20, three coffee totes cover 21 to 24 cups for $64.47.

Sides & Spreads

Cookies, brownies and sides round out an order, usually for under $3 per person. Watch the cream cheese: an 8 oz tub costs far less per ounce than the individual cups. 

Sides Menu

Sides add little to the bill but fill gaps in a sandwich order. A baguette is $0.99 and chips are $1.49. 

Spreads Menu

Spreads decide whether a bagel order feels complete. Tubs cost about $0.47 per ounce, against roughly $1.13 per ounce for the individual cups. 

Panera lists the PB&J Cookie 6-Pack as serving 10, which is more than a six-pack suggests, so confirm the count at checkout. You must check our panera bread sides and spreads related page to explore further about this menu category.

Why Panera Catering Menu Prices Differ by Location?

The cost of Panera catering depends on your cafe. Whether you search Panera Bread catering near me or enter an address on the ordering site, local prices appear only after you pick a cafe. The same item can cost a different amount from one cafe to the next, so the price on your invoice may not match the one above.

Delivery Fees, Minimums and Hidden Costs

Panera catering delivery fee is where published sources disagree, because they describe different channels. Panera’s checkout shows the figure for your address, and that figure counts.

• University procurement pages, which reflect negotiated arrangements, list a $15 fee on orders of $50 to $150, 10% on orders of $151 to $249, and $25 on orders of $250 and up. A second institutional page describes the same structure.
• ezCater cafe listings showed a $30-and-up delivery fee with minimums of $100 or $150 depending on the cafe.

For the Panera catering minimum order, the sources also differ. One institutional page says orders of $50 or more qualify for delivery, while the ezCater listings above show higher minimums. Check the minimum at checkout before building a small order.

Add local tax and any tip. How far in advance to order Panera catering depends on size. One institutional page says same-day orders are accepted up to 4 hours before delivery, with advance orders always accepted. For anything larger than a small meeting, order the day before and call the cafe for big or complex orders.

How to Order Panera Bread Catering?

To order Panera catering (or place a Panera catering order online), use Panera’s catering site at catering.panerabread.com.

1. Choose delivery or pickup.
2. Enter the address, date, time and cafe. Local prices appear after you do.
3. Choose a format. The site pushes Popular Bundles first. If a bundle is almost right but one item doesn’t suit your group, build the order through the individual category pages instead, where items can be customized.
4. Check dietary labels and serving sizes in the cart.
5. Confirm the delivery fee, minimum and any cafe notes before paying.

The Panera catering login is your MyPanera account. Panera’s own rewards terms refer to orders placed via Panera’s US catering website with a registered MyPanera card. One coupon site says orders placed while logged in can be changed or canceled through the account, while guest orders need the cafe. That bears on the Panera catering cancellation policy, though you should confirm the current rule with Panera. A 2019 university notice cited a 12-hour advance-notice requirement to modify an order, but that is dated, so treat it as a clue rather than a rule. If you need to cancel a Panera catering order, do it as early as possible.

For Panera online catering orders that are large or span several locations, a catering coordinator can be easier than the website. The Panera catering phone number isn’t a single national line, so get the number from your cafe’s page.

Promo Codes, Rewards and Savings

Before checking Panera catering promo code, you must know that codes are unreliable. A Panera bread catering coupon listing on one coupon site shows 15% off catering orders of $200 or more, with exclusions. Two deal sites gave different expiry dates for the same 30-off-150 code. Some codes belong to a single organization: a university’s code applied only at specific stores. If you try a Panera promo code catering orders accept, enter it in the Promo Code box at checkout and see whether the total changes.

Panera catering rewards are more dependable. Per the program terms, every $500 in qualifying catering purchases earns $20, delivered as two $10 increments, calculated on food and beverage after discounts and excluding taxes, tips and fees.

Dietary Needs and Allergens

Item names don’t tell you what’s in a dish, so don’t rely on them. Panera’s allergen guide is the authority, and shared preparation can mean cross-contact. Contact the cafe directly for a guest with a serious allergy. As an example of the detail to look for, one listing for the Greek Yogurt Parfait notes it contains milk and tree nuts.

Items such as the Mediterranean Veggie sandwich ($12.89), Broccoli Cheddar Frittata and Four Cheese Soufflé have no meat in their names. Check Panera’s own vegetarian labeling instead of assuming. For a group with mixed needs, Panera catering options that arrive individually boxed make labeling easier.

Common Mistakes & Solutions

Mistakes	Solutions Or Tips
Treating a bundle as fixed	You can customize by ordering from the category pages.
Reading “per person” as a guarantee.	Platter figures assume the top of the serving range.
Forgetting fees.	A $15 to $30 delivery fee on a $129 order adds 12% to 23%.
Assuming one soup serves a crowd.	Each container serves 4.
Ordering too late.	Same-day orders are possible but unreliable for large groups.
Skipping spreads.	A tub of cream cheese is $3.79.

Frequently Asked Questions