He built a small chain of bakery cafes, with sourdough bread as its star. A few years after it was sold, it became nationally ...

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

Rosenthal founded St. Louis Bread Company, which later became the nationwide bakery-cafe chain Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, who ...

Kenneth “Ken” Rosenthal, founder of the company that later became known as Panera Bread, has passed away. He was 81.

The facility at an industrial complex at 1505 Dupont Ave. is closing April 14. Employees will get separation pay and help ...

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

THE ARCHIVES: KSDK interview with Ken Rosenthal six months after ... the Au Bon Pain division to focus on the Bread Co. and renamed the company Panera. Rosenthal, who in the early days would ...

Ken Rosenthal visited a bakery, teeming with sourdough. On that same trip, he encountered other establishments. Cozy eateries with fresh bread, sandwiches, soups and salads. Coffeehouses with an ...

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. Cozy eateries ...