hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
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review and i am your host the report of the week and we're trying out a pretty new and
pretty interesting item uh to just get right to the point and i know i kind of say that in
every single video but i am this time i am i am getting straight to the point this is a new
item from panera bread and it may actually be a first for this channel because i don't really
i mean i might have reviewed panera bread before but i know that this isn't an establishment that
i necessarily do reviews of you know extremely frequently like i know some places like taco bell
um wendy's you know the pizza place etc they make lots of releases they you know i'm always
doing one review after the next of them panera bread is one of those establishments that i
frequent i i enjoy just going there because i think they have a good quality product
but for some inexplicable reason i just haven't really done many a review of the the bread of
panera as they say but this caught my eye and i got a couple of requests for it as well because
i'm always interested in checking the comments and seeing what people really want to see reviewed
and a lot of people were saying can you try out the pepperoni pizza from panera bread and at first
when i first saw that i was in a state of bewilderment so to speak i thought you know
is this some sort of delirium setting in you know pizza pizza from panera bread
but sure enough i did some research and it was not delirium
it was not any sort of uh you know hallucination no they actually do have a new item they released
pepperoni flatbread pizza so yes pepperoni pizza from panera bread yes indeed you could get it
this is what it has on it it's supposed to be like a little more of a gourmet pizza so to speak
because you know you have all different types of pizza but they say this is supposed to just be a
little bit of a nicer type of pizza it comes with a blend of mozzarella and fontina cheese
comes with tomato bell pepper sauce then they say traditional pepperoni so we're kind of going
traditional you know none of this uh none of this fake ripoff pepperoni but the real deal
and that's it but it's supposed to just have better quality ingredients they say
uh you know at a fair value this is this is anywhere from eight to eleven dollars the one
that i got was actually on the pricier side this pizza was eleven dollars for me um but
others you know other people say no i've only got it for uh 7.99 i guess it just depends on where
you go and uh you know the price may vary but anywhere from eight to eleven dollars i've seen
now here's the box you can see that it's not a huge box so when you think of pizza you know i
know we think of the huge you know circular pie but this is more of again like a square
flatbread pizza and you can see you know for verification purposes it is from panera of bread
let's open this up let's see what we have so here it is all right there i am with
it and let's just focus on the pizza real quick i'll get a close-up shot for you too
um but there i am with it a little bit of a bluish hue to it for some strange reason but
there's a close-up view of the pizza anyway and i'll move it even a little closer but you can see
that it's a nice flatbread pizza again not too big like if you wanted to compare it to my head
i guess that still is bigger than my head but you can see the pepperoni is under the cheese
see the sauce the cheese and it looks pretty good though i have to say let's grab a slice
looks like it already is cut so that's good all right and this is a close-up view of it now
so you can see looks pretty good there's the pepperoni there's the cheese the sauce
so far so good in terms of appearance at least it certainly does look like a nice and again i
would even go as far as to say like a gourmet type pizza you know a little higher quality so to speak
uh you can definitely see the mozzarella cheese there it looks pretty good
so we'll just try it out we know what's on it we'll just go for it and we'll see how good this
is i will say just from experience obviously panera bread is not a pizza place uh unless
maybe they always have been and i've just been getting the wrong thing from them but uh some
establishments you know that that they branch out into pizza it's better than you think i remember
years ago subway they have released a couple pizzas here and there and they were better than
i thought they would be and subway you know is not always known for the highest quality so hopefully
this will be good we'll try it out the pepperoni flatbread pizza from panera bread going in
you didn't see that but the pizza almost went flying off the table but it didn't
but let's just keep trying this out here
and again it's got a blend of mozzarella and fontina cheese the
tomato bell pepper sauce and traditional
pepperoni
thank you
i have to say i'm impressed by it i think that they did a good job on this one thing
that i can definitely taste when it comes down to to this item is the quality of everything
obviously when you have a place that doesn't really specialize in pizza that tries to you
know give it a shot i think the results can be mixed and i think you know you've had times
where some places do it it's great other times it's not um but the first thing that really
that really strikes me here is the overall quality of the ingredients and the freshness
you can really taste the freshness especially in the mozzarella cheese and you can just you
could just tell that they're using just more quality ingredients the pepperoni one thing
that i like about it that maybe you could see i'm not sure how well the camera really picked it up
is that it's thicker cut pepperoni so when you're biting in and you know you eat that slice of
pepperoni and there seems to be a decent amount of it again it's kind of under the cheese a little
bit so you can't see at all but there still seems to be a good amount of pepperoni on the pizza
but when you bite in you really do get a nice mouthful of it you really taste it
has a little bit of spice to it of course some saltiness but it's just rich in flavor
uh the sauce is an interesting thing and i think the only like if you have to really nitpick um i
think some people because i know a lot of folks are particular about their sauce on the pizza
what they like what they don't like i think if people like a thicker sauce you know like a very
thick hearty tomato sauce they might be a little disappointed in the sauce here because it's much
much thinner it's not watery you know but it's definitely much thinner of a sauce
so i think if any individuals just are concerned about that you know simply in the means of
consistency there that's something worth pointing out it doesn't bother me it's not like a tomato
paste but again it's just not necessarily a very thick sauce still though what's interesting is
i say it's a tomato bell pepper sauce very interestingly enough you know it is a robust
sauce though it is very flavorful but there is a little bit of a hint of like a bell pepper
in there which caught me off guard i just i was i wasn't sure how pronounced that would actually be
um but it's good honestly i wasn't really sure what to make of this pizza i wasn't sure if it
was going to be all that i'd seen the pictures of course but it's like you know how it is when you
see something advertised the expectations versus reality but in getting this pizza and just trying
it out here i would say that it's definitely worth a shot it's not going to be like you're you
know like a little caesars pizza or something it's panera bread spin on a pizza i think it's a little
higher quality you know just a little tear above what you would usually get it like to take out
pizza places definitely higher quality ingredients very flavorful very fresh and i enjoy it and still
a decent a decent portion size for it i'd say if you're feeling peckish this would certainly
constitute a meal for one person but even i think two people could could enjoy this as well and each
have a couple slices so uh no and one other note of course a flat bread pizza it does have a little
bit of a crisp in the crust a little bit of a bake on the bottom um but it's not like so hard that
it'll break your teeth and it's not dry either it's not like a cracker so i like that again it
still has a little bit of a you know a crisp to it some firmness but the the base of the pizza is not
dry either and i like that so i think they did a good job on it panera bread again they're usually
known for having some quality uh some quality items fresher ingredients at a pretty decent price
and i would say they definitely did a good job with this flatbread pizza so yeah out of
10 i would definitely have to give it at least an eight range um i'd probably have to give it an 8.6
out of 10. all things considered definitely above average you know price wise again is a little iffy
i guess you are paying a premium though for better quality ingredients
but overall good pizza good quality it tastes good i don't have any problems with it
so yeah panera bread pepperoni pizza from them i give them a thumbs up i think they did a good
job and if it's something that you're interested in absolutely next time you go to panera bread
yeah maybe get a pizza from there see what you think so with that ladies and gentlemen that's
all that i have for you today i'm your host the report of the week and today we tried out assessed
and analyzed the pepperoni pizza from panera bread with that everyone please
be safe wherever you are be healthy i wish you all the very best until next time do take care