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

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

A visit to a San Francisco bakery led to the creation of one of the nation's most successful and ubiquitous restaurant chains and helped usher in the era of fast-casual restaurants. In mid-1980s ...

ST. LOUIS – Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, the founder of Panera Bread, passed away on Friday at the age of 81. Rosenthal passed peacefully at his home surrounded by his family. Rosenthal was a ...

ST. LOUIS — In mid-1980s, on a trip to visit his brother in San Francisco, Ken Rosenthal visited a bakery, teeming with sourdough. On that same trip, he encountered other establishments.