Panera Breakfast Menu and Breakfast Hours (2026)

What time does Panera stop serving breakfast?

At most Panera cafes, breakfast ends at about 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and about 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast is served from the time your cafe opens.

Panera does not post one national cutoff, and each cafe can set its own. The 10:30 and 11 a.m. times come from food sites that have tracked Panera's breakfast window for years, including Chowhound in July 2025 and The Daily Meal, which cited Panera's own menu. If you are cutting it close, open the Panera app and start an order for your cafe: if breakfast sandwiches are still listed, they are still being made.

On Sundays, the weekend cutoff applies, so you usually get about 30 extra minutes compared with a weekday. Store opening and closing times, holidays included, are covered in our Panera hours guide.

Can you get lunch at Panera in the morning?

Usually not. Panera kitchens switch from breakfast to lunch at the breakfast cutoff, so soups, salads and lunch sandwiches generally become available at about 10:30 a.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. on weekends. There is no single switchover time across all cafes.

A few things do carry across. Bagels and pastries stay on sale after breakfast ends until they sell out, and coffee is available all day. Lunch-only items include the Chicken Roma and Spicy Steak Bagel Stacks, which Panera sells as lunch and dinner sandwiches. If you need lunch food for an early event, a Panera catering order is the more reliable route, since you choose the pickup time.

What is on the Panera breakfast menu?

The Panera breakfast menu has three main groups, based on Panera's September 2026 nutrition guide:

• Egg sandwiches. Egg & Cheese on Artisan Ciabatta or a croissant. Fancier options include the Steak & Wake and the Chipotle Chicken, Egg & Avo, both on ciabatta.
• Frittatas and souffles. A crustless Broccoli Cheddar frittata and a Four Cheese souffle.
• Lighter picks. Steel cut oatmeal with strawberries and pecans, Greek yogurt with berries, a fruit cup and plain bagels with spreads.

Panera also lists egg whites as a separate portion, at 30 calories and 6 g of protein, and the lighter Garden Avo & Egg White sandwich comes on a Multigrain Bagel Flat.

How many calories are in Panera breakfast items?

Panera breakfast items in our table range from about 250 to 600 calories, and oatmeal without pecans drops to 230. The table above lists the main items from Panera's September 2026 guide.

The Broccoli Cheddar frittata is the lightest hot option, at 280 calories with 15 g of protein and only 11 g of carbs. Egg sandwiches on ciabatta sit in the 430 to 600 range, with the Chipotle Chicken, Egg & Avo at the top.

For the best protein for the calories, the Steak & Wake on Ciabatta gives 32 g of protein in 520 calories. Choosing ciabatta or croissant barely changes calories for most sandwiches, but the croissant versions carry more fat. For more on lighter orders, see our Panera nutrition guide.

What changed on Panera's breakfast menu in 2026?

Two changes stand out. In January 2026 Panera brought back its Bagel Stacks, including the Chicken Roma and Spicy Steak stacks sold at lunch and dinner. Then the June 2026 menu update added crustless frittatas, which are now the lowest-carb hot breakfast Panera sells.

Some older names have dropped off. Breakfast sandwiches on brioche no longer appear in Panera's guides, and an avocado, egg white and spinach sandwich seems to have given way to the Garden Avo & Egg White on a Multigrain Bagel Flat. If a delivery app still shows those older names, check the Panera app for what your cafe actually makes.

How much does breakfast at Panera cost?

Plan on roughly $3 to $8 per person for a simple Panera breakfast before tax. Typical prices we track include about $3.29 for a Cinnamon Crunch bagel, about $6.49 for steel cut oatmeal and about $3.19 for a regular coffee.

Bagels get much cheaper in bulk. A half dozen costs about $12.99, or about $2.17 a bagel, while a baker's dozen of 13 is about $18.99, about $1.46 each. That is the best deal on the breakfast menu if you are feeding a group.

We do not list prices for breakfast sandwiches yet. The prices we had were tied to older item names, and we would rather show no number than a stale one. Your cafe's prices are in the Panera app. If you drink coffee most mornings, look at the paid Sip Club subscription in our Panera deals guide. Prices are typical U.S. estimates and run higher on delivery.

Is there a Panera breakfast menu PDF or catering option?

Panera does not publish a printable breakfast menu with prices. The closest official PDF is its nutrition guide, which lists every breakfast item by name with calories, and prices are shown per cafe in the app and on panerabread.com.

For groups, Panera's summer 2026 catering menu has a breakfast section. A Morning Continental with bagels, cream cheese, butter, orange juice and coffee serves 8 to 10. A Bagel Pack of 13 bagels with two tubs of cream cheese serves 13, and a Dozen & a Half Bagels serves 18, with cream cheese sold separately. Boxed breakfasts come with a fruit cup, and you can swap in an apple or a yogurt parfait for an extra charge. Lead times and other rules are in our Panera catering guide, and lunch and bakery prices are on our full Panera Bread menu.