Panera Bread is an American based restaurant that has locations all over the United States. It originated in 1987 and was named St. Louis Bread Company. It started as a small town bakery in San Francisco. Now, Panera is currently being sued because of one of its drinks. In September 2022, a 21 year old IV League student passed away due to the Paneras Charged Lemonade. The caffeine content was alleged to be falsely labeled and caused her to go into cardiac arrest. A large cup of the Charged Lemonade can contain about 390 mg of caffeine. The max amount of caffeine a healthy person should have per day is 400 mg. Not to mention the girl who passed, Sara Katz, had a heart disease that made the amount of caffeine in the lemonades extremely unsafe for her to consume.
Panera Bread advertises the charged lemonades to be a plant-based, clean caffeine energy drink. They also advertise that one cup of the lemonade has the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee. What people don't know is that the comparison is completely untrue. A small cup of the lemonades is the same as a large cup of coffee. This makes the lemonade come off as a reasonable amount of caffeine for a drink, even though it has a significant amount more. One large charged lemonade has a higher caffeine content than 4 redbulls combined.
Some people state that Panera has always been transparent about the amount of caffeine in their drinks, and have plenty of warnings before a person can get the drink. They claim that they give enough warnings that people should understand how much is a healthy amount for them to consume. Since the death has been brought to Panera’s attention, they’ve changed their labels on the product and have enhanced their existing caffeine disclosure out of an abundance of caution. It also has not been 100% proven that the charged lemonade was the exact reason why she went into cardiac arrest.
In my opinion, Panera Bread is being rightfully sued. 390 mg of caffeine is an insane amount of caffeine for one drink, especially because the drink is lemonade, and isn't even labeled as an energy drink. Panera should either lower the amount of caffeine in the drink or completely get rid of it. It is a major safety concern, and always has been. They should have rethought the idea of that much caffeine in a drink before it even became a problem.
Do you think Panera should be getting sued?
Whats the most amount of caffeine you've ever drank?
Would you be willing to try the Charged Lemonade?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/10/30/panera-bread-charged-lemonade-warning/71382776007/
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I agree, they need to be transparent in how much caffeine their drink contains.
I think that Panera Bread is being rightfully sued. There should be no drink that has that much caffeine, and deffinently not a lemonade. But if the girl knew about her heart condition she shouldn't have drank the drink it the first place. I will not be trying the new charged lemonade.
Yes, she knew that caffeine would effect her condition, but she still drank it. But that is a lot of caffeine to have in one drink.
I think it's fair to sue Panera Bread, but there is no reason the girl who died should have drank the lemonade in the first place. If she knew about her heart condition, then she should have known how dangerous caffeine could be for her. That being said, no drink should have that much caffeine.
That makes sense. She must have known that there is caffeine in the drink, but still drank it even with her heart condition.
I think Panera Bread is being rightfully sued because no drink should have that much caffeine, especially not a lemonade. The only possible way they should not be sued is if the lemonade was clearly labeled as caffeinated and the menu had the exact amount of caffeine.
I agree, even a labeled energy drink should not contain that much caffeine.
I think that Panera should be held accountable for their mistake, and should change the insanely amount of caffeine in their drinks, or delete them from their restaurants. I have tried a lemonade I think it was charged, but it had a bad flavor so I threw it away because it was too strong, I think it was the mint eucalyptus lemonade.
Yes, they should be held accountable. That is far too much caffeine for a lemonade. Personally, I have never tried a charged lemonade.
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