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, founder of the company that later became known as Panera Bread, has passed away. He was 81.

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

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

In 1987, Rosenthal founded St. Louis Bread Company, which later became the nationwide bakery-cafe chain Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, who founded the company that later became Panera Bread, has died. He ...

Feldman Mortuary Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, who founded the company that later became Panera Bread, has died. He was 81. The Panera founder died “peacefully in his home surrounded by his ...

Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, the founder of Panera Bread, passed away on Friday at the age of 81. Rosenthal passed peacefully at ...

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 ...

Panera Bread founder Ken Rosenthal passed away on Friday at the age of 81. He was surrounded by family and leaves behind his wife, Linda "Laya" Rosenthal, and their four children. In 1987 ...