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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A few years after it was sold, it became nationally famous under a new name. By Richard Sandomir Ken Rosenthal, who opened a bakery cafe in the St. Louis area, with sourdough bread as its star ...

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.

Cancel anytime. JULY 8, 1997-- Saint Louis Bread Co. founder Ken Rosenthal at home with his wife, Linda, and three of their four children. From left (standing) are Scott and KariRosenthal and ...

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 ...

Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, founder of the company that later became known as Panera Bread, has passed away. He was 81. According to an obituary, Rosenthal "died peacefully in his home surrounded ...