I had family gush about Culver's ice cream. I make ice cream. I was excited to try Culver's custard ice cream. The utter garbage soft serve they served left me fuming. There is literally no reason to visit Culver's. The food is mid, the drinks are bad. And the ice cream is a lie. It's food from the Midwest, where a salad is a jumble of starch swimming in mayo. Of course coastal mid-tier food would get accolades.
As a vegetarian, I feel like I'm being mocked every time I eat there. They've got a cheese puck that they call a "harvest veggie burger", and it's not good. If they just did an impossible butter burger I'd happily eat there, or even just bring back the Morningstar patties.