1.   Au Bon Pain calls itself a bakery cafe, offering soups, sandwiches and salads along with croissants and gourmet coffee.

2.   Accounts Java City, Sacramento, Calif., to the Evans Group, Seattle, to handle advertising for the bakery cafes, previously handled on a project basis.

3.   Has its notion of a bakery cafe been outdated by rivals with trendier formats?

4.   It also operates a chain of pizza restaurants and Delifrance bakery cafes in the Philippines.

5.   Like Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread is a bakery cafe but one suburbanites hopefully will find more inviting.

6.   She also endorsed the bakery cafes, which are operated with Host Marriott, as a sensible way to boost Cheesecake Factory as a brand name.

7.   With profits cooling, Au Bon Pain Co., a once hot chain of bakery cafes, plans to close nine stores and slow its growth of new outlets.