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In-N-Out are memorably bad. I tried it a few times, a few different ways. None of it good for the price. Culver's prices crept up, to be fair so I guess it's the same. Is the burger awesome? Hell no, I can make better at home. For fast food, they have clean kitchen, dining area, bathrooms, custard that's delicious, curds (since I don't do fries, generally) and PEPSI. Overall valuation is good. INO is burger, crap fries, meh shakes, and that's it. Dining areas generally clean but I've seen a few dirty INO. Across the country I have yet to find a dirty Culver's (or Chick Fil A for that matter.)

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Pretty good but still not White Castle!

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In case anyone is old enough to remember, their root beer tastes exactly like the old fashioned A&W root beer.  Good stuff!!

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They just built about 5 of these down here in SW FLA.


Anything that Wisconsin fatties are good at making (hamburgers, ice cream, cheese curds) is good to go at Culvers.


Anything Wisconsonites are bad at (salads, fish, coleslaw) is going to be Godawful so don't order it.

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They just built about 5 of these down here in SW FLA.


Anything that Wisconsin fatties are good at making (hamburgers, ice cream, cheese curds) is good to go at Culvers.


Anything Wisconsonites are bad at (salads, fish, coleslaw) is going to be Godawful so don't order it.

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Let me give you a perfect example of what I mean by Midwest v. the coasts.

Say you go into a non-chain, semi-casual restaurant.  Neighborhood, locally-owned place, maybe even regionally famous.  The kind of joint that gets a lot of repeat business.


On the coasts, you'll pay your money and you'll get a good meal.  After a few repeat visits, you'll get to know the people there, and maybe develop a rapport.  The bartender will remember your favorite drink, the owner will wave hi as he walks the tables, maybe you'll make some chatter about current events of local interest.  The menu will be good stuff, often with seasonal options, and pared down to maybe 25-30 items.  They may or may not have a chef's special of the day/week.  Maybe they'll have a rotating soup or vegetable.  Generally ordered a la carte, but entrees come with a choice of two sides.  That sort of thing.  Everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about here.

But the Midwest...  It's like you teleported back in time to the 1980s.  If there was a smoking section, I'd swear I was back in 1985.  Booths with the back-to-back benches and tables not attached to the floor or anything.  Small chairs for fat butts.  Some places don't have free refills on soda.  There's a glass-front deli cooler at the front door that showcases all the cakes and pies for dessert (and you have a fuckton).  The waitress waddles up to your table beaming with joy and starts making small talk.  No rush, what are you in town for, well, my sister's husband just...  and this is normal.  Patrons at one table will talk to patrons at another table.  Aw, you like the Packers?  Me too!  Go Packers!  And then there's the question that comes as a complete surprise.  What kind of dressing do you want on your salad?  My salad?  But I only ordered a chicken sandwich.  That's okay, everything comes with a salad.  Remember that shit from your childhood?  And it's in the fake wooden bowl, with sliced tomatoes (obviously from the sandwich prep station), canned black olives, the red onion slice thoughtfully placed on top so it can be removed if you don't like raw onion...  Everybody gets a fucking salad.  No reason, it's just polite.  It's hospitality.  And the menu...  holy shit, there's got to be a hundred things on this damn menu.  Why would you ever have so much shit on there?  And it never changes.  Oh, you might get a special once in a while, but it's just going to be some variation on a regular menu item.  Oh, it's the "cowboy" burger!  We put barbecue sauce on it.  Ooooh, that sounds fancy.


It's the fuckin salad, though.  It's simple, it hardly costs anything, but nobody on the coasts does it.  Oh, you can order a side salad.  But that takes something away from the meal.  The Midwest, no matter what you order, you're getting ten pieces of lettuce, two tomato slices, and some other small things.  It's the smallest of things, and so easily overlooked, but it's that mark of hospitality that makes all the difference.

You can't do that on the coasts.  You'll tie up a table for 90 minutes.  You'll go out of business.  You've got food to serve and taxes to pay.  A half empty restaurant with friendly service and free shit?  You'd last 3 months in any coastal state.

But not in the Midwest.  You'll be the anchor of the damn community.


Crazy.  It's like a different planet out there.

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Pretty good but still not White Castle!

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In-N-Out are memorably bad. I tried it a few times, a few different ways. None of it good for the price. Culver's prices crept up, to be fair so I guess it's the same. Is the burger awesome? Hell no, I can make better at home. For fast food, they have clean kitchen, dining area, bathrooms, custard that's delicious, curds (since I don't do fries, generally) and PEPSI. Overall valuation is good. INO is burger, crap fries, meh shakes, and that's it. Dining areas generally clean but I've seen a few dirty INO. Across the country I have yet to find a dirty Culver's (or Chick Fil A for that matter.)