Panera Wants Diners to Bring Home a ‘Better’ Bacon

Bacon is some-more renouned than ever with cooking being combined to all kinds of products and strips of a beef being combined to dishes during restaurants during all cost points. But, Panera Bread has thrown down a gauntlet before other inhabitant grill bondage with an proclamation Wednesday, Sept. 21., that they will usually sell purify slabs of meat. Panera claims that their diners will be stealing “better bacon” in a future. What does that mean?

Panera announced that their restaurants are usually going to offer “clean bacon” now. Odds are that many diners do not know (or presumably) caring if they are eating improved bacon or how a pigs were treated. If they did, they substantially would not be stealing a sandwich or salad with bacon in it. However, a St. Louis-based sequence is creation a change as partial of a beginning to offer healthier transport that is abandoned of synthetic preservatives, feign flavoring, chemical sweeteners and synthetic coloring.

“Clean bacon is an instance of how we can amplify when we simplify,” Panera owner and arch executive Ron Shaich is quoted in a company’s press release. “By stealing synthetic additives, we done a switch to improved ingredients, improved hardness and, ultimately, improved flavor. We’re not only charity purify bacon; it’s bacon that has been towering in each way.”

As distant as bringing home a bacon goes, this means Panera is no longer regulating synthetic additives to heal and safety their pig slices. Instead of regulating some-more common chemicals like sodium phosphate, sodium nitrite, and sodium erythorbate, a quick infrequent sequence will be regulating celery powder. Their bacon will be herb brined regulating sugar, sea salt and thyme. They will not be regulating glass smoke, that is a required means of artificially enhancing flavor, though will use genuine applewood smoke.

The grill sequence buys a lot of bacon. They served 2 million pounds, that is a homogeneous of over 115 million bacon slices, on a menu equipment in 2015. Panera claims that they are a initial inhabitant quick infrequent or quick food sequence in a attention to change their bacon-related sourcing, restorative and cooking practices. They also report that a pierce has been in growth for some-more than a year.

Going forward, Panera promises that a new “better” bacon slices they sell in their dining establishments will be 25 percent thicker than they used to be. They will also be served crisper (the staff will no longer cool and reheat slices).

Lastly, a 30-year-old quick infrequent chain, that operates some-more than 2,000 bakery-cafes in a U.S. and Canada, is earnest that animal gratification is also being deliberate in their beef sourcing and has been given 2015. The organisation reported that their bacon now comes from pigs lifted on a vegetarian diet (to be fed to North Americans who are not on a vegetarian or pig eschewing diet!). The pigs are also reportedly antibiotic-free.

Panera’s pierce to urge a peculiarity of their mixture is laudable. However, it seems doubtful that diners who wish to move home sandwiches or other dishes with bacon are that meddlesome in “clean” or “healthier” food. But, if it tastes improved … that is a opposite story.

Written and Edited by Dyanne Weiss

Sources:
Panera Bread: Panera Bread Leads with Better Bacon
The Street: Panera Bread Offers ‘Clean’ Bacon; Top That, McDonald’s
Meat + Poultry: Panera sizzles with new bacon

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