Culver's reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(3,343 total reviews)

Rick Silva

80% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Culver's has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,343 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Culver's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Dec 13, 2012

Great First Job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Culver's was a great place to have my first job. I started when I was 14 and worked there until I left for college. While working there, I gained experience working on a team, helping customers, obeying management, and all of the petty things that future employers want work experience for. At least at my restaurant, it was extremely flexible. I could ask off as many days as I wanted, and I changed my availability every couple months or so to work around my school and extracurricular schedule. The discount is 25% for you and whoever you are with at the time, and 50% on the days that you work. I've had the opportunity to meet Craig Culver on several occasions, and I couldn't approve more. He is one of the most genuinely nice and caring people I have ever met!

Cons

First of all, the shifts are very regimented. If you want to get a drink of water or go to the bathroom, you have to get permission from a manager. Same goes for applying discounts to orders and other similar tasks. The work isn't always fun, either. You will have to clean toilets, scrub baseboards, pick gum out of carpets, deal with angry customers, and all of the other things that working in a restaurant throws your way!

4.0
Nov 5, 2012

Great first job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ways to move up at the restuarant

Cons

Starting pay...minimum wage, but that's to be expected

4.0
Oct 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People I worked with felt like family. After working for about 4 years there as a cashier/dining attendant and night closer, I was finally (after about 2 years) promoted to a front supervisor. I made $6/hr and went to $8/hr for the supervisor position. They were really flexible with me, I was able to call them if I was backed up on homework to change around shifts and I came back from college for holidays and would work a few days at a time.

Cons

I felt that putting in my hard work after 4 years of service, I should have been paid a bit better. Normally, I wouldn't feel this way but you found hearing through the grapevine that new employees who were related to management or more attractive were set up in a supervisor position right when they walked in the door, and paid far more than you. It was very disappointing; many employees ranted to management with nothing done about it. (One employee who worked there many more years who had never been promoted ranted to them and threatened to leave if they didn't do anything...she had to walk out the door and come back in after about 2 weeks for them to catch on and do something) Management eventually got kicked around by new management who put some not very HR friendly views onto our staff (a bit sexist and racist). I had complained (once with tears in my eyes after something a manager did) and it seemed like he just got a slap on the wrist for degrading me. This is essentially why I left. Procedures would change just as fast as the people walking in and out of our doors. Everybody in management always wanted to change something and make it their own. Bottom line, this place was overall a good experience.This was a small town job and I expected there to be a lot of "tipping the scales" so-to-speak. Anywhere else in a bigger city would have probably been a 10/10! This company is good!

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