--- title: Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020 description: It's the latest restaurant to announce a cage-free egg movement canonical: https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-05T20:13:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:30.637Z og:title: Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020 og:description: It's the latest restaurant to announce a cage-free egg movement og:url: https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf41d9251419c07e1/6987815806f2c11b28334339/time-healthiest-foods-eggs2.gif?branch=production&width=667&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 667 og:image:height: 375 og:image:alt: healthiest foods, health food, diet, nutrition, time.com stock, eggs, breakfast, dairy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020 twitter:description: It's the latest restaurant to announce a cage-free egg movement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf41d9251419c07e1/6987815806f2c11b28334339/time-healthiest-foods-eggs2.gif?branch=production&width=667&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020 > Sponsored content. 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The chain announced that it will use 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2020. This will apply to shell eggs, hardboiled and liquid egg whites and eggs used in pastries, souffles and dressings. The company is now using 21 percent cage-free eggs, a 3 percent improvement from 2014. Panera’s move will affect its nearly 2,000 Panera Bread and St. Louis Bread Co. stores in the U.S. Panera “is demonstrating that social responsibility goes hand-in-hand with being a successful national restaurant brand,” a senior food policy director for the Human Society said in a statement. Panera is not alone. [Starbucks](http://time.com/4060385/starbucks-eggs-cage-free/) recently said it would move to cage-free eggs on a similar timeline, with [McDonald’s](http://time.com/4026501/mcdonalds-cage-free/) doing the same. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/"},"headline":"Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020","datePublished":"2015-11-05T20:13:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:30.637Z","description":"It's the latest restaurant to announce a cage-free egg movement","url":"https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/","keywords":["Living","restaurants","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf41d9251419c07e1/6987815806f2c11b28334339/time-healthiest-foods-eggs2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf41d9251419c07e1/6987815806f2c11b28334339/time-healthiest-foods-eggs2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"healthiest foods, health food, diet, nutrition, time.com stock, eggs, breakfast, dairy","caption":"healthiest foods, health food, diet, nutrition, time.com stock, eggs, breakfast, dairy","creditText":"Photograph by Danny Kim for TIME; Gif by Mia Tramz for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4101884/panera-cage-free-eggs/","name":"Panera to Use All Cage-Free Eggs by 2020"}}]}] ```