Panera Bread taps McDonald's veteran for chief operations officer

摘要

Debbie Roberts has been named executive vice president and chief operations officer at Panera Bread. Ms. Roberts joins Panera after three decades at McDonald's Corp., where she most recently was East Zone president with responsibility for 7,000 restaurants in 11 regions. Before that, she was president of the company's Northeast Zone, vice president and general manager of the Midwest Region, vice president of operations, senior marketing director and finance manager. In her new role, she will lead all of Panera's operations and operations support functions.