First off, I was struck by the friendliness when I entered. I was greeted by a genuine, "Hi! Welcome to Culver's!" I've stopped here a few times driving to or from Albuquerque for my frozen custard fix. The food is standard custard fair. In terms of Wisconsin standards it's ok, but it's great to find cheese curds and frozen custard in Arizona. The bathrooms are clean which is also nice because it's usually a well timed pit stop on my drive. Overall, very friendly, great customer service, standard Culver's food, clean bathrooms. read more

First time trying Culver's. Friendly staff, very clean dining area with flowers on tables. They have a big menu for fast food. We tried mushroom Swiss butter burger, chicken strips and fries. Food is very blend and has no seasoning on the chicken. Some people like it very much cause the place is busy. Just not my favorite. read more

Culver's - Butter burger, fries, and chicken strips - Fast Food Near Me - Payson, Arizona

My husband and I had the honor of celebrating National Cheese Curd Day at Culver's in Payson, AZ. The staff was enthusiastic and the environment was fun. Shout out to Don and the rest of the crew for making our visit enjoyable. The Curderburger was outstanding!! read more

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Love the food BUT not worth the wait. Ordered 10 minutes ahead for curbside pickup and still waited 30 minutes for my order. No communication or updates during the wait. So frustrating. read more

Decided to try their fish and other things on the menu. I picked up the three piece meal with coleslaw and mashed. I also got the 10 piece shrimp with fries and broccoli . The other item I picked up was a hamburger in which was recommended . Let me first start with customer service. The young man that took my order was patient as this was my first time here. He made recommendations which I appreciated. Later as i was waiting for my order I did approach the counter and asked for a small bag for my condiments this time a different younger man just looked at me for the longest time just standing there holding an ice cream cone.. lol! Another gentleman finally intervened and said "oh do you need a bag? " while I was waiting fir my order I noticed the unkept floor behind the counter.. bags on the floor and it needed to be swept of other food that had made its way iff the tray. Now to the food as we had it to go. I made sure yo ask for extra tartar sauce and it was a good thing because other than what i asked for there was nothing in the bag. The fish was a pretty decent size but I am so sorry there was no taste to it! Bland was the nicer word.. the lemons that came with it didn't help either. The coleslaw was great, broccoli is broccoli, mashed was decent and fries were not special. Now for the shrimp... these were the best out of all the choices we made! The burger was dry and typical fast food.. overall I probably wont visit again. I probably will support the local restaurant who have fish in town. read more

Certain elements of my trip to this Culver's were better than 1 star but I think you'll agree the overall experience earned a 1 or less. For a business that seemed to be almost overflowing with employees, the service was shockingly slow. It seemed that just two of the 10 or more staff who I could see were doing most of the work. When I got there, there was one group ahead of me at the registers but it still took about five minutes to place my order. Then nearly twenty minutes for my reasonably simple order (a burger, a side, and an ice cream cone) to come out. Ok technically 18 minutes, which is only six minutes per item - It actually would make sense that they prepared them one at a time because the hot items were pretty close to room temperature when I got them and the ice cream was melting. All of this was pretty annoying but the thing that really prompted me to write a review is what I observed during my almost twenty minute wait: A woman had been in the parking lot, and came into the building to complain that her parked truck had been the victim of a hit and run just then. She wanted to talk to the manager to see if they could review the security camera footage to try to get a license plate number or identifying decal from the perpetrator. The woman pointed out that she could see her truck on the security camera's screen behind the counter. We both observed the employee go into the back and talk to the manager for a couple of minutes and then come out to relay he didn't have time to do that, even though he didn't seem to be doing much at that time. In fairness, he said she could leave her name and number but that's hardly helpful in tracking down a criminal headed away from a crime scene and a pretty shabby way to treat a customer. He couldn't even walk up and talk with her himself? Also, and this may or may not be a chronic problem, it was almost impossible to make a left turn out of the parking lot. In any case, I won't be back to find out. read more

Stopped here for a concrete with Midnight Toffee ice cream and OMGEEEE this was the best, smoothest and most delicious ice cream ever!! Will def be going back for another tomorrow before we head home. The restaurant is super clean, service was quick and the staff is really friendly, too. Thanks so much! read more

Drive thru ordering will never be correct. I just got back with single baskets. My order changed to double burgers with cheese. I give them a chance once a year, but the Drive thru always adds and charges for extras they add on to an order. read more

We stopped here for what I hoped would be a quick lunch after being stuck in traffic for two hours with a toddler. $16 for a grilled cheese, 2 sides, and a small shake. We waited, I'm not exaggerating 50 minutes. The food was cold when we got it. Went back up to get the kids custard that came with the kids meal. Was told it would be quick. It wasn't. First time I've been to a Culver's. Also the last. read more

A great stop on the way up the mountain. We split a Butter Burger Value Basket and Chicken Tenders Basket. Love the meatiness of their Tenders. This is one of the friendliest places with welcoming employees. Clean as a whistle. We hope the Culver's in Show Low can meet or exceed the standards set here when it opens! read more

Definitely on the stop list on way to New Mexico! Good burgers and milkshakes are awesome!

I was slip #67, around noon on 9-10/2022. I ordered ten shrimp, shrimp only. 1. I received only one sauce, normally with this bigger order I get two, so I counted the shrimp. 2. There were only 9 shrimp. 3.The shrimp were barely warm. 4. The color on the crust informed me these had been basket dropped a second time, probably to reheat? 5. Lastly I waited in the farthest space 15 minutes and two cars behind me were served first, even they had an atypical wait. When I drove in there were no cars placing, paying, or waiting, so I don't know if the shrimp had to come from Bashas, or somewhere else other than inside Culvers. This is definitely the worst experience I've had at any Culvers. read more

Passing through town and stopped for lunch. Delicious meals, kind of pricey, but the religious music was poor taste for the restaurant.

I know I shouldn't be surprised or disappointed cause everywhere you go now for food it's just poor service, but I gotta say I am certainly surprised by this location and shocked im giving it this review I absolutely love culvers and always go to this location whenever me and my boyfriend are in payson, Any ways the family wanted some icecream and we get to the culvers drive thru line and wait like 10 mins for a worker to actually greet us on the speaker, we get our order in we had a turtle sundae, 2 chicken strip basket with a drpepper, and 2 salted caramel concrete mixers with cookie dough. And then wait another 15 mins and finally get our order but missed the turtle sundae, and later realized they forgot our drpepper for the basket. Paying $30 i would hope to get our whole meal especially waiting like 20 mins for the whole thing. read more

Give me a Culver's in any other city, and I'm likely to pass, but this is going to become a regular stop for my fiance and me after our camping trips to the Rim. We always go to Dairy Queen and get ice cream before heading home to Tucson, but the parking is bad there, there is no shade, and it's not clean. Culver's has halfway decent food, good custard, and a nice shady patio where we can bring our dog. I was impressed by the friendliness of the staff and the cleanliness. Bathrooms were decent, which is a welcome sight when you've been in the woods for a few days. The staff member who brought out our food offered our pooch a pup cup too, free of charge, and we didn't even ask. read more

Very clean and well maintained! Awesome service and very good food quality. They know what they are doing here! read more

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Wonderful vanilla custard, toppings, and cheese curds. I've been disappointed the last 2 times though - I was given an old pint of flavor of the day and it wasn't nearly as good. And the time before that, we got chocolate custard and none of us like it as much. read more

Almost twice as expensive as the ones in the valley. Also had the displeasure of seeing the owner at another restaurant being so vile to their server. Literally put her in tears. Boycott! read more

I liked the cod dinner with onion rings. I would probably pass on the mash potatoes. The clam chowder tasted like corn chowder hence the dock in stars. The chicken salad, burger, smoothie and desert were good! Because it was quite pricey $67 for a family of 4, I think I'd rather go to the sit down places near by. But if you want decent food fast...this place is fine. read more

Culver's - Fast Food Near Me - Payson, Arizona

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We recently placed a drive thru order for a vanilla scoop, chocolate cone, two chocolate shakes, a mini concrete with pb cups and a small concrete with pb cups and snickers. Everything was prepared fresh but we noticed that one of the chocolate shakes had pb cups in it, even though it wasn't supposed to. Good thing they didn't have an allergy! read more

the Good and service was great! Noah one of the servers was outsta ding! He was respectful and spoke in a very professional way read more

I love the burgers but don't understand the high price charged extra for a gluten-free bun. It's almost 2 bucks. Seriously you're saving the original bun that came with the burger. read more

It took fifteen minutes to get to warm not hot pot roast dinner. Mashed potatoes and soggy, overcooked broccoli. It was a starchy extravaganza with potatoes, gravy, slice of bread and a roll. It's a good thing I was bringing it home because there was no flatware or napkins. read more

We enjoyed great food and incredible hospitality when our family dined there. After we ordered our meals we realized we forgot to ask for everything on the side for our picky "Autistic" son. However a gentleman was going past our table and noticed our situation. He told us to keep the burger but he was going to replace it for us. What an amazing gesture to go above and beyond to give exceptional customer service. read more

This was my very first time at a Culver's! This location was nice- huge inside, clean, and the staff was super friendly (the manager even came and talked to our table a for a little bit). I would say this is a pretty typical fast food joint. One thing i did like was the fact that they offer original and buffalo chicken tenders and you can get half and half in your basket if you want to the both. Fries were good too! I would return but i wouldn't go too far out of my way. I'd be interested in trying the custard too! read more

Clean dining room, friendly staff, yummy food. We had the chicken tenders and double butter burger with fries... Burger was great and chicken/fries were pretty good. read more

got food about a month ago and when I went to take a drink a metal object from one of their machines flew into my throat. Do not recommend eating there unless your asking for a death wish. Second time eating there messed up my order to the point it wasn't even edible and I went back to ask for them to fix it and they told me to pull up. They helped and gave five different cars their food but ignored my request for 35 mins. read more

Not a fan. Nothing special. The best thing about the experience was it was clean and the staff very friendly. Food was a zero!

I usually turn to Yelp to find awesome restaurants, rarely do I leave reviews. We have a Culver's in Buckeye AZ and they are Awesome when it comes to a MUCH better version of MOST fast food. On our way home from our cabin in Forest Lakes we stopped for dinner, hubby wanted Wendy's, I won w Culver's. UGH...mistake for sure because Payson Culver's is nothing like our Buckeye Culver's. I won't complain when one or two things are not right because $hit happens but I will when almost everyones meals were not ok, especially after spending over $40 on fast food. To start, the lady in the drive through let us get through most of our order before saying, "um can you start over?"....seriously?!?!?!? Then, I Only got 3 pieces in my sons 4 piece Chicken basket, My fried chicken sandwich was cold, both sandwiches had hard bread but the bottom bun on mine especially was hard as a rock and finally we didn't get any napkins! Napkins, yes a stupid complaint on its own for sure, but probably 75% if not more people that come through your drive through are just traveling through so for those of us that get 10 minutes down the road w greasy hands and kids w fried food till we realize we don't have napkins.....IT SUCKS! Get it together seriously. You are not Wendy's, burger king, McDonald's Taco Bell etc..... you are a higher end fast food chain and need to represent that. I gave 2 stars because your chain is delicious however, yours location is not! Hope it was just a bad night! read more

I'm visiting from out of state and kept hearing about this place. The food wasn't terrible, but seemed mediocre at best for being twice the price of other fast food chains. I can't attest to the ice cream which I hear they're known for, but personally I think you're doing yourself a favor by skipping the food. read more

The food is old and rancid. It's the worst cheeseburger I've ever eaten. They don't care.

the food is okay. i wouldnt even give the place one star if i'm being honest. i went to get a concrete mixer with my boyfriend, two ice creams. IT TOOK 22 minutes for them to finally come out and give us our order. they served 12 cars AFTER us. the guy behind us waited 10 cars for ONE concrete mixer. the wait is ridiculous. my boyfriend ice cream was hella melted too. they also sent out a kid to apologize and give us our food because they were too much of a pussy to handle the situation. read more

Culver's - chocolate concrete mixer - Fast Food Near Me - Payson, Arizona

Waited in the drive through for over 30 mins for a simple kids meal. The service is incredibly slow and will not ever stop here again.

First and last time coming to this location. I ordered a regular concrete mixer, paid at the window and then wait 30 mins for someone to come the car. Some guy ask what number I was and then walked away. The next work that came out I waved down to see what was going on and he said he would check. And back 10mins later with a completely melted concrete and said "oh it was sitting on the counter sorry" and then handed it to me and ran back inside. read more

This place is grade A built and operated. Food is fresh. My go to for a burger in Payson.

This is the perfect place to eat if you want a step above fast food. Comfortable relaxing atmosphere, friendly staff, and quality food. Menu offers a wide variety of items, from burgers and frozen custard shakes to actual dinners. read more

I have always wanted to try a Culver's and today was my chance, as we were returning home from Phoenix. I was very pleasantly surprised! Fast food is not my first choice but Culver's was refreshingly different. Bright and spotless with a huge and hugely confusing menu. The staff is friendly and helpful and they seem to really enjoy what they do! The food was surprisingly good and tasted like each item was made to order! The burger, forgive me In-n-Out, was delicious! The chicken tenders were exceptional as was the fish. Culver's is my new go place for fast food! read more

Always clean with good service and much-better-than-average fast food. Best root beer too!

Today I ordered the cod value basket and was very disappointed. One lil piece of fish not much bigger than a fishstick! And, it was greasy. Most of the time, everything is top notch including the employees. However, I cannot recommend the cod value basket....certainly not worth over $9. read more

Stopped here on our way through Payson, burger was ok, nothing special. A little pricey, but the customer service is superb! You can tell they care about their business. read more