Panera provided and required comprehensive front and back of house training, market analysis, and bakery-café certification. This corporate level tactic impacted the company’s franchised and company owned stores by enabling Panera to develop systems used by all the cafés thus applying economies of scale to operations. Since each café-bakery did not have to develop its own operations structure this reduced costs for each store. In addition, the methods Panera introduced to each store had proven historically successful, thus increased the learning curve for a new café and lowered costs.