Panera Bread’s fall menu goes heavy on the sweets and soups, including 3 items you’ve never seen before

The useful part

It's the first week of September which means, cue Seinfeld 's George Constanza, we're " shifting into soup mode." Panera Bread is right there with us, rolling out its new fall menu today. The fast-casual chain is also adding a three-cheese lasagna soup to its menu for the first time. The soup has a ricotta tomato broth with Italian-style sausage, lasagna ribbon pasta, parmesan cheese, and asiago cheese.

How it works

• Then there's the ciabatta dippers for, as the name suggests, dipping into your hearty soups.
• You can pick up the French ciabatta dipper or a chicken pesto ciabatta dipper.
• Rounding out the savory options is a harvest medley salad, with ingredients such as crunchy beet strips, mandarin oranges, and pumpkin seeds.