A Panera Bread “recent dough facility” in Orlando will shut in July, leading to all 114 of its workers dropping their jobs.
The corporate’s facility on Parkline Boulevard will shut on July 25, based on an e mail the corporate despatched to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Florida Division of Commerce. The e-mail was despatched below a federal legislation that requires employers to provide 60 days discover about “plant closings and mass layoffs.”
The letter didn’t say why the ability was closing however mentioned the closure is anticipated to be everlasting.
The web Restaurant Enterprise web site reported in April, nevertheless, that Panera can be closing 9 remaining “recent dough services” because it modified the way in which it “produces its bread, lengthy a core ingredient for Panera.” The corporate had beforehand introduced closures of dough services in California, Kansas and North Carolina, leading to a whole lot of layoffs, it mentioned.
Below its new plan, as a substitute of blending dough in its services after which delivery it to particular person cafes to be baked into loaves every morning, Panera will use “third-party bakers” to make the dough utilizing Panera recipes, the positioning reported. The dough will then be “par-baked and frozen to be completed within the cafes,” Restaurant Enterprise mentioned.
The Orlando workers, who usually are not represented by a union, have been notified their termination will take impact between July 23 and July 25, the e-mail mentioned. They’ve been provided a severance package deal and outplacement companies.
The largest group of workers to lose their jobs have been the 39 individuals who labored as “part driver-tractor trailer,” the e-mail mentioned. Folks with jobs as “mixer,” “packer,” and “pan washer” in addition to managers shall be out of labor in a couple of months, too.