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| - Edit (3/11/2011): I knocked one star off my earlier review. The last few times I've gone to this Culver's, the food has been hit or miss. I've tried something new each time (from burgers to chicken salad sandwiches to fried chicken, etc), and half the time I get a great entree. The other half of the time I get an uber-greasy or bland item. The custard, though, is always consistently good. The so-so food plus yummy custard = 3 stars.
My first review:
Culver's is awesome! My family goes about twice a month. We have young children, and find Culver's to be pretty kid-friendly. It's both a fast food place and a frozen custard shop. As for the custard, it is so creamy, rich, and delicious! They offer chocolate, vanilla, and a flavor of the day. You have some options like regular scoops, sundaes, shakes, cakes, cookie sandwiches, and blizzard-type thingies. Then there's the crazy food menu that has tons of stuff like "butter burgers", crinkle fries, fish n chips, fried shrimp, roast beef or fried chicken dinners with sides, hot sandwiches, pork cutlet sandwiches (like a schnitzel sandwich), soups, salads, and more! Cah-ray-zee! Not only is the food pretty good, but the seating area is nice and clean, more like eating at a Panera or a Paradise Bakery than at a McDonalds, if you know what i mean. They have flat panel TVs on the walls (showing news or sports) and an outdoor patio. You order at the counter, get a number, and they bring your hot, fresh food out to your table fairly quickly. All this, plus they have a drive-thru! How they can offer all of their menu items, get them out quickly, and offer them in a drive-thru is beyond me, but they do it!! DOUBLE CRAZY!
I only have three minor issues/complaints, if you can really call them that. 1) that they are almost always BUSY when we're there, but that's not really a complaint. :) , 2) for being such a busy place, they don't seem to have enough seating, and 3) the drink fountain: It is in such a cramped, high traffic spot in the restaurant, that it often has a group of people waiting to fill up or just trying to get by. The back-up of people might also be due to the actual fountain being really overly fizzy (i.e. People try to fill their cup and end up with half bubbles, so they spend extra time at the drink station dumping the top half and refilling several times.) That's happened consistently each time I've gone.
Overall, a very clean, casual, and reasonably priced place to bring the family for dinner and dessert.
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