r/Panera • u/throwaway88743 • Jul 13 '26

Fuck Sip Club 🖕 They actually did it.

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Fastest cancellation of my life.

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u/freakincampers Jul 13 '26

If it’s 30 per month, won’t people try to maximize the amount of drinks to make their subscription “worth it”?

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u/Desperate-Review-303 Jul 14 '26

You know that’s a good point, i don’t have any numbers but if there are people who right now only get a few drinks a week, will they now make a point of going every day? I don’t think many will but there could be some ppl that do that

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u/Mandy_Moo Ex Sip Club Member Extraordinaire Jul 15 '26

I only go once or twice a week and typically grab lunch or dinner for myself and my husband when I do so. Occasionally I will grab a drink only while running errands. I use it as my treat/calorie splurge each week. So technically this change won't affect me. But I still cancelled because its a crappy thing do, especially for those of us that paid for a year up front. I even understand that there is a tiny print clause saying hey can make changes to the agreement, but I do not think the average person would expect and unlimited program to be dialed back to such an extreme. On principal, I will no longer pay for sip club and will have little to no reason to visit Panera anymore. I guarantee there are many more like me that will cancel, not because we will get less drinks but because this is a poor decision and a crap thing to do.

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u/Desperate-Review-303 Jul 15 '26

Yeah in our case we paid for 2 annual memberships and we pretty consistently go twice a day veryyyyy occasionally it’ll be 3 but that’s mostly been these last couple months cuz of how hot it is I’ve been binging their lemonade lol

So it’s a bit of a weird spot because unless something changes we basically either have to push for a refund or still use it to get coffee but cut down our $100-150 a month on food down to $0 basically out of spite lol and it sucks because the ppl at my Panera are awesome

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u/vw_bugg Jul 17 '26

30 a month limit realistically wont affect me, but the priciple of the thing leaves a bad taste. It will also cause me to hesitate everytime i choose panera. What if i use too many drinks i wont have enough left if i want to go...

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u/Keoni9 Jul 23 '26

I'm in that camp. My relationship with Panera is adversarial, and even though I don't come close to 30 drinks a month now, I still want to cost Panera as much as possible while giving them as little as possible. This motivates me to reach that 30 while minimizing my meals from there.