{"id":17108,"date":"2020-05-05T00:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17108"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T00:04:59","slug":"panera-bread-631-promenade-place-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17108","title":{"rendered":"Panera Bread, 631 Promenade Place Suite 16: April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/05\/p1630124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/05\/p1630124_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1630124_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1630124_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/05\/p1630125.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/05\/p1630125_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1630125_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1630125_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first wrote about this place <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5\">back in 2007<\/a> in one of the earliest posts on this site.  At the time, I was noting that it had ceased to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=atlanta-bread-company\">Atlanta Bread Company<\/a>.  At some point after that, <i>Panera<\/i> moved in.<\/p>\n<p>I ate there a number of times over the years, and considered it fairly well managed, especially compared to some of the other local locations, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/panera-bread-columbia-6?sort_by=date_desc\">looking at Yelp<\/a> suggests it had begun to slip some lately.<\/p>\n<p>The last reviews seem to be from the early April timeframe, which would put it during the current crisis.  The door sign does not give that as a cause, just noting that they have \"relocated\" to Killian Road.  Perhaps that was the plan all along.  Certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=village-at-sandhill\">Sandhill<\/a> is not a hot location now, especially in comparison to that area.  In point of fact, I have eaten at the Killian location, and while it is more \"modern\", if that is the future direction for <i>Panera<\/i>, I really did not care for it.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Mr. Hat)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 17 June 2021<\/b> -- Setting up to be <i>Esther's Soul Food Kitchen<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710125.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710125_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710125_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710125_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710127.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710127_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710127_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710127_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 5 June 2023<\/b>: Add suite number to post title<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/631+Promenade+Pl,+Columbia,+SC+29229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first wrote about this place back in 2007 in one of the earliest posts on this site. At the time, I was noting that it had ceased to be an Atlanta Bread Company. At some point after that, Panera moved in. I ate there a number of times over the years, and considered it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3007,170,136,169,3,36],"class_list":["post-17108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-631-promenade-place","tag-bakery","tag-clemson-road","tag-promenade-place","tag-restaurants","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}