He built a small chain of bakery cafes, with sourdough bread as its star. A few years after it was sold, it became nationally ...

Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, who founded the company that later became Panera Bread, died on Friday, Feb. 14. He was 81.

Before Ken Rosenthal opened the bakery-cafe that would become Panera Bread, he was a businessman who didn’t know how to cook ...

The facility at an industrial complex at 1505 Dupont Ave. is closing April 14. Employees will get separation pay and help ...

Ken Rosenthal and his wife Linda opened the first St. Louis Bread Co. store in the Greentree Shopping Center in Kirkwood in ...

Panera is a renowned bakery-cafe chain founded by Ken Rosenthal (Kenneth Rosenthal), who passed away recently at the age of ...

Ken Rosenthal, founder of the St. Louis Bread Company—later known as Panera Bread—passed away on February 14, 2025, at age 81. His family confirmed his death in an obituary, noting he was ...

THE ARCHIVES: KSDK interview with Ken Rosenthal six months after ... the Au Bon Pain division to focus on the Bread Co. and renamed the company Panera. Rosenthal, who in the early days would ...