Terrible service. I know they're kids, but I was a kid too during my first jobs and I worked better than that - smiled at people and didn't make fun of customers at least.
A sign says they're hiring, and I'm not sure what for unless it's to replace all the seemingly incompetent people they have.
While ordering through the drive through, I could hear them making fun of me whenever the mic opened the other way (mocking me by repeating "great" and giggling incessantly). I was willing to forget that, but crap kept happening.
I had asked if they had real pumpkin pie in the pumpkin concrete, and they said yes, so I ordered that one. I get up to the window, no smiles or friendliness to be had. They hand me the pumpkin concrete and a number and ask me to pull ahead. Didn't ask if I wanted condiments or anything.
I pull forward and start to eat the concrete, quickly realising there's no pumpkin pie in it and it tastes fake.
When a young man brings me the food, I tell him what's wrong and he says he's sorry but he doesn't make the ice creams so he's not sure what's going on. He said they can't give me money back ... really .... but could probably exchange it.
Fine, because I was craving ice cream. I pull around and turn off my car to go inside. TONS of kids are standing around talking and goofing off (some of the hecklers from earlier I'm sure). I go up to the counter, where a girl proceeds to tell me that since I've touched it, she can't do anything for me or take it from me.... SERIOUSLY?! I've worked in customer service since I was a teenager, and for a HUGE portion of that was in food service. I realize every place might be different, but I think the girl was either confused or just plain stupid.
You obviously can't sell the food again, but if the customer isn't happy with it, you always give them something else and/or their money back. She didn't even have reason to side-eye me like me and my co-workers used to do to people who claimed to hate their food, but had eaten the whole thing. I'd tried it, thought it tasted bad, stirred it around looking for pie pieces, and then didn't touch it again. I'm not trying to say I hated something I ate here.
I asked to speak to a manager. He was able to get me a different flavored one, but by this time, everyone is staring at me like I did something wrong rather than them not being truthful about what the concrete was in the first place and being rude and unprofessional the entire time.
I should have just demanded my money back, because the second one didn't even taste that great. The way those kids were acting, who knows if they did something and that's why it tastes off. Maybe it was because I was so mad. Either way, I don't get why everyone thinks Culver's is so great. I spent $10 for that crap - a single burger, fry, mess of a concrete -
and all I am is angry. They won't get my business again.
Should've gone to Wendy's next door and gotten a frosty. read more