Culver's reviews

Salary is minimum wage. and as far as I knew there was no hope for any raises unless you got promoted. Most of the managers and "higher ranked" employees are incompetent and lazy. At my location, the main manager's two sons and their girlfriends were all in charge even though they had no ability to lead. All of the employees who weren't family or friends were worked to their limits and bossed around while all of the workers who had the pleasure of benefiting from nepotism got to sit back and chat. I was constantly being jerked around from one task to another, and expected to be doing 10 things at once while other employees did absolutely nothing. The restaurant attracts a lot of sports teams and large groups of children and teens, and most of them are spoiled and treat employees like garbage. Culver's is notoriously understaffed at busy times, as they can't seem to get the concept that you would need more workers on a Saturday night than a Tuesday afternoon. Then the employees who are there get yelled at by customers for "taking too long" when there are 2 employees working and 30 people in line. I was constantly stressed out and on edge, and I generally left work completely burned out and in a bad mood. Their "training" is terrible. They have whoever is on shift at the time give you a brief and half-hearted explanation of what you do, then throw you right in. I was "trained" on working drive-thru in 10 minutes and then expected to be able to handle it by myself and be as fast as everyone else. I had a jerk manager over my shoulder saying "Faster, faster, you have to go faster!" which stressed me out even more, and they get on your case for every little mistake you make. Criticism is given often but rarely do you get any praise. I had numerous customers come up to my managers praising my service and they said nothing to me about it or even gave me a pat on the back. But the second one complaint is made or they see me mess any little thing up, they will give you a neverending lecture. Overall, not a good place to work. At least at my location.

Sometimes scheduling would be difficult for high school students that were also involved in extra-curricular activities, for example if I had a few weeks where I couldn't work as much it would be difficult to make it back on the schedule.