Panera customers give presents

More than 450 presents have been collected by customers and employees through a holiday gift drive at Panera Bread in the Providence Place mall and 10 other Panera bakery-cafes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The company anticipates that the gifts will got to more than 150 children and some of the 1,100 families served in the Children’s Friend Spirit of Giving campaign.
For the fifth consecutive year, Panera customers participated in the gift drive by selecting a gift tag with a child’s first name and a “wish list” of items, purchasing the gifts, attaching the tag and returning them to the store.
The bakery-cafes in Cranston, East Greenwich, Lincoln, Newport, Providence, Smithfield, Wakefield and Warwick, Rhode Island cafes as well as North Attleboro, Plainville and Seekonk, Mass., partnered with Children’s Friend.
North Dartmouth, Mass., is partnering with Child & Family Services in New Bedford. Connecticut cafes and partners in that state are also working together in a similar way, the company said. All 28 Panera Bread bakery-cafes are owned and operated by Panera Bread/Howley Bread Group based in Cumberland.

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