5 Things You Didn't Know About Au Bon Pain
- Did you know "Bon Pain" means good bread, named so after the bakery and cafe idea was inspired by the aroma of fresh-baked French bread.
- Bakers are awake making baked items fresh in each bakery as early as 4 a.m. ensuring you get the freshest bagel or artisan bread available.
- There are over 300 Au Bon Pain locations worldwide, including India and Thailand, but the company was founded and is still based in Boston MA.
- The Au Bon Pain menu features over 20 gluten-free options, including desserts, soups, artisan breads, and sides. Several vegan and vegetarian options are available too.
- A group of nutritionists and physicians act as a Nutrition Advisory Board, helping to ensure all Au Bon Pain recipes are created with nutritious ingredients.
Au Bon Pain Review
Au Bon Pain is a cafe bakery with a focus on fresh, healthful, and nutritious offerings and high-quality, fresh baked goods. In a similar fashion to Panera Bread or Einstein Brothers Bagels, Au Bon Pain delivers fresh-baked goods daily made in their own on-site bakeries. With a wide arrange of menu items from categories like bakery goods, beverages, breakfast items, sandwiches, and entrees, Au Bon Pain is sure to have something fresh on the menu for every taste. Their menu caters to specialty diets as well and includes a variety of gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options available for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert.
With menu options like their rich, creamy Lobster & Corn Bisque or classic Everything Bagel, you can taste the quality of the ingredients used in their products. The bakers start early in the morning, making sure patrons can have a warm breakfast or pick up some tasty bagels and cream cheese or pastries for the office. The lunch and dinner menu includes a variety of options like their piled-high hot and cold sandwiches, pasta plates, several flavors of chicken wings, or warm, satisfying hot bowls. If you are looking for something to satisfy your sweet tooth, the Au Bon Pain bakery is sure to satisfy with their sticky Chewy Marshmallow Bar or their Double Chocolate Mudslide cookie.
The brick and mortar business was originally founded with one location in Boston, MA, but the company has since opened locations all around the world, including hundreds of U.S. cafes everywhere from prominent buildings to airports to universities on the East Coast, in Florida and Texas, and throughout the Midwest. To learn more about Au Bon Pain and how it all started, check out the video The History of Au Bon Pain. In the video, you will meet Executive Chef Stefan Cordova and hear him talk about the Au Bon Pain’s rich history and their commitment to good bread.
Each of the cafe bakery locations offers seasonal menus full of tasty bakery treats, healthy wraps and salads, artisan breads, and hearty entrees. The chef-inspired creations have a focus on healthy food and the corporate philosophy couples that with making customers the most important part of their business. By taking advantage of crisp, newly picked local produce, each location includes their own menu options keeping the recipes as fresh as the food. Their wide variety of baked-daily goods and excellent customer service interactions are what keeps customers around the United States and around the world coming back for another taste.
Inspired by the scent of bread baking in a marketplace, Au Bon Pain was founded on the desire to bring great bread to people everywhere, but the company has grown to be so much more. Their focus on food is rivaled only by their commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility. They work to do business with only sustainable farmers and vendors, participate actively in environmental and industry groups, and focus on serving the communities they are located in. In fact, Au Bon Pain has established a program called “Food for Life,” which helps local organizations feed the hungry and ensures unsold bread goes to those in need.
Not only will the food taste great when you visit Au Bon Pain for a meal or snack, but when you use the Giving Assistant program, you get the added benefit of contributing to a good cause with your purchase. That means you can eat good and feel good about helping make the world a better place.
Au Bon Pain Social Media Links
Au Bon Pain on Facebook: Like the Au Bon Pain page on Facebook and get an inside look at their user reviews with feedback from real customers, pictures and posts about their latest menu items, and reposts from their great employees and customers.
Au Bon Pain on Twitter: Follow the Au Bon Pain Twitter account to see their “fresh-baked” news feed filled with the latest pictures of their bakery creations, tasty lattes, and warm, delicious soups and complete with retweets from their fans.
Au Bon Pain on Instagram: Follow this Instagram feed for scrumptious pictures that turn the cafe’s treats into an art form and will make you want to rush in and get a warm, buttery croissant right now. There's also plenty of fun interaction for customers, and you even have the opportunity to have your photo featured on their feed.
Au Bon Pain on Pinterest: Get all the most pin-worthy content with the Au Bon Pain boards on Pinterest. Add their images to your recipe boards for inspiration or use them to drop a hint to friends about what you are craving for lunch from their extensive menu.
Au Bon Pain on YouTube: Watch videos by Executive Chef Stefano Cordova as he walks you through Au Bon Pain’s history, their close attention to ingredients and innovation, and their commitment to quality. Each brief video gives you insight into the company’s customer-focused beliefs and excellent cafe and bakery foods.
Au Bon Pain Contact Info
Au Bon Pain Corporate Support Center
19 Fid Kennedy Ave.
Boston, MA 02210
Email: feedback@aubonpain.com
Online Feedback Form
Phone: 1-800-825-5227
Au Bon Pain Catering Contact Info:
Phone: 1-800-765-4227
Email: catering@aubonpain.com
