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They're building one in my neighborhood and it never seen one. I heard they're from Wisconsin. Any good?

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There happens to be a "Location Suggestion" entry in their "Leave a Comment" section on their website. I just begged and pleaded for a Culver's in California.

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They're well run with polite, courteous employees. I like their food. They serve custard instead of ice cream have a GREAT lemon ice at some locations. You can get a Pot Roast sandwich or a Pork Tenderloin sandwich as well as the usual hamburger stuff. It has lots of stuff on the menu a Midwesterner would take for granted so as a displaced one I appreciate them a lot.

And during Lent they serve Walleye as a fish option!!!!  

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They are well run, very clean, and have GREAT (for fast) food.  You will like it.  

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People fall into 2 camps.  In and out or Culvers.

I would eat at a Culvers as much as I could.  And die a happy death due to a heart attack.

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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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Better than average food and staffed by much better than normal fast food restaurant employees  

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Try the onion burger. Prepare your angus.

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Food is tasty, but very high calorie.  

There was an interesting article on Culver's in Forbes Magazine about 3-4 years ago, re: much of Culver's advertising bucks are subtly directed to get customers to buy one of the custard desserts-----and IIRC, the average store gross margin on the desserts was in the range of 75-80%-----almost pure profit.

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Pretty good but still not White Castle!

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The curds are good.

The shakes are good.

"Butterburgers" are...  eh.  I mean, not bad, but it's still a fast food burger.


I would rather have In-n-Out, but I also like cheese curds.

Ranch dressing is disgusting.  lol

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They are well run, very clean, and have GREAT (for fast) food.  You will like it.  

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Pot Roast sandwich
Pork Tenderloin sandwich

Burgers are good for fast food.

They do a thick custard-based shake, which lot's of people love, but I don't.

The fried cheese curds are OK - for people who've never had real fresh fried curds.

They are pure heaven when they have the seasonal walleye filet on the menu.  It's 'Oh My GOD' amazing.  Big crispy crunchy battered filet of the best tasting freshwater fish there is.  I think it's February through Easter.

My mouth is watering just thinking of it...

I recommend ordering it WITHOUT tartar sauce.

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Try the onion burger. Prepare your angus.