If I may overgeneralize, Panera and Corner Bakery are the fast-casual chain sandwich purveyors equivalent of Coke and Pepsi. Today, we measure the merits of one random item, bought at both: the 1/2 sandwich and soup combo. The sandwich will be the common denominator of tuna salad, and the soup will be whatever variant of cream of tomato they have on offer.
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Overall winner for this week's challenge: Corner Bakery.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.