text: It never ceases to frustrate me that restaurants which offer potentially vegetarian and vegan menu choices insist on defeating that option by creating the food with animal derived based ingredients for instance Panera er Paradise Bakery offers up six soups on a daily basis typically at least one of them is labeled vegetarian safe however selections such as Fire Roasted Tomato French Onion and Baked Potato one imagines being able to order those soups which would otherwise be vegetarian yet are not because they are made with chicken or beef stock Yes soup base holds together better when they are made with chicken or beef stock and arguably tastes better but any reasonably good chef can make a soup base with vegetable stock and still provide the same results not to mention opening up more menu items to a larger consumer group more revenue anyone Grrr Are you listening Panera er Paradise Bakery