When I saw this item on the Today Food website, I smiled and wanted to know more. Described as a bread bowl glove for winter iced coffee drinkers , it simulates the kind of bread bowl Panera serves its delicious soups in. But this is where the resemblance ends. It is really a kind of mitten with a hole in the top to hold your coffee and one on the side to slip your chilly paw in.
That is when the latent detective came out in me. I immediately called one of our local Panera s to inquire as to when this fun winter product would be available. The reaction I got from the Sioux Falls Panera associate I spoke with, could be described as less than enthusiastic.