ST. LOUIS — Panera Bread has announced that it will move to 100 percent cage free eggs by 2020.
The company reports is intends to move to 100 percent cage-free eggs in U.S. Panera Bread and St. Louis Bread Co. bakery-cafe food menus by 2020.
This will include shell eggs,hard-boiled and liquid egg whites in addition to those used in sweet goods, soufflés and dressings — a total of more than 120 million eggs system-wide annually.
The company is presently 21 percent cage-free relative to the approximately 70 million shell eggs, hard-boiled eggs. . .