Hamra entered into a development plan with Panera Bread® within greater Chicago area and opened the company’s first Panera Bread (St. Louis Bread Co.) in Deerfield, IL on April 15, 1998.
Today, Hamra Enterprises owns and operate 38 Panera Bread locations throughout Illinois in Cook, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.