Bread & Co

How the mighty have fallen. I just returned to Franklin, TN... a place I visit once a month to see my children and was shocked to find one of my favorite "old haunts" has fallen so far. I have a B and C membership card and always made a stop here to take Bread or cookies, soup or a sandwich back home. I walked in the Franklin Bread and Company today and couldn't believe it. The tables were filthy as a rule. I asked for a rag to wipe down my table and someone did it for me, but the table remained sticky. Literally... my napkin stuck to the table after it was cleaned. The Deli counter was half empty at 11:30 of any food... and in general the place looked "low end". I'm so disappointed. I've always thought the food was priced too high... but now... I don't know if I'll even bother coming back. I can get mediocre for cheaper and in a cleaner establishment.…

Working at B & C. My life at B & C has had many ups and downs, the most part of the downs is the big 15% paycut that came to the whole company and now I make about 7.25 an hour when it use to be 9. I started working here due to the good pay that they gave but now here I am in the big cut and so far no hope yet.

I still work here and get along well with the customers and other employees but I sure wish I would have another job by now. It really is not bad to work for and they do let you grow in the company. Some of the people there grow to be managers although not all the managers are not for their own job and complain quite a bit.

A job is a job and you can make it what it is, if you always think it to be bad it will be but sometimes I see good in it to no matter all the flaws.…

Yummy food, but not worth the price. Have you ever noticed that the banner that says, "Now Hiring" hasn't been taken down in six years? There is a reason. Mostly out of curiosity, I applied and was accepted to be a general minion for Bread and Company. They took the $15 out of my paycheck for the apron, fed me a bunch of food so that I knew what I was talking about, and put me in front of a register. At first, I couldn't understand why they were always hiring. But then I was having to stay hours after my shift was supposed to end, I was yelled at and thrown food on by the omlette guy for filling out a breakfast form incorrectly, and finally had to spend some time in the back. I speak spanish pretty well, and you could understand both by inflection and attitude that the manager was cruel to non-pasty white employees. I became competent pretty quickly, but they kept dragging us in for more 'training,' telling us we weren't supposed to compliment or chat with customers because it could be taken the wrong way. Finally I quit, and since I gave one-week instead of two-week notice, that paycheck was reduced to minimum wage; not that it was too far different than $6/hr anyway.

Their food is ok, but I have a personal preference for Picnic fruit tea over their super sugary version. Most of their food can be found in some variation at Provence, which has employees that aren't 'getting it from the man' every five seconds. The only thing I can't find anymore is the sesame dressing available at B&C. Corner Market used to have it; ironically B&C took over their location years ago.

Oh, and there was an article in the paper the other day that they had reduced a few of their prices. Though tempted, I won't go back.…

One Hot Mess. I'm going to assume, from this cluster-f*** of a set-up, that the operators of these restaurants are ADHD high-school dropouts. There are about 511 different places to order food. There are no signs or directions to help guide newcomers figure out where the F they are supposed to go. I don't think I've ever actually seen a menu either. They probably have one, I just missed it because they stuffed it in a random, useless nook somewhere in their jungle of chaos. But I digress.

If you don't anything behind the glass case, you pretty much have to start guessing things and hope they have it. And after battling the soccer moms to get into one of their 4 available parking spaces and trying to avoid their ill-behaved little devil children, you are in no mood to play 20 questions with the cashier.

So, after I go through this disorganized hot mess, they end up charging me $9.63 for one sandwich. Don't get me wrong, it was a good sandwich, but not THAT good. I suggest the ready-made sandwiches if you must try this establishment.…