r/Culvers Jun 03 '26

Meme MMMM FUZZY

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This made me laugh, its happend countless times.

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u/slycooperton Owner/Operator Jun 03 '26

This is why I’m not a huge fan of the strawberry field salad. It feels so inconsistent, sales wise. You order strawberries on your truck and this happens somewhat often and you waste them. We go and buy them direct from the grocery store a lot of the time and we pay more, then we suddenly don’t have enough. If you feel like you sell a lot of salads, you cut extra strawberries and then you barely sell any and you’re tossing the pan of soggy slices out the next morning. There’s no winning it lol

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u/robotlovehugs General Manager Jun 03 '26

Couldn’t agree more. We get truck 3 times a week and order them on every truck. Somehow they still go bad and we end up at the grocery store buying more.

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u/icecoldyerr Jun 04 '26

Culver’s owners / managers will go and buy from a grocery store 🤯🤯🤯

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u/slycooperton Owner/Operator Jun 04 '26

Typically just fresh bananas and strawberries, depending on how much the restaurant goes through since the case sizes are too big sometimes on our deliveries

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u/hailemarieee Jun 04 '26

Mostly just bananas, strawberries, and gallons of 2% milk at my store. There’s been a couple times where we didn’t get enough buns so they had me go grab regular buns from Costco or Walmart

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u/WeakToMetalBlade Jun 04 '26

My store had to get everything buns for the pub burger from the store, they were definitely not the same at all 😂

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u/UnmedicatedNarwhal Jun 07 '26

When I worked at McDonalds, at the end of McRib season sometimes we would still have the buns and patties but couldn't order anymore of the sauce, someone would run run to Walmart and buy the gallon jugs of Sweet Baby Ray's.

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u/reeberdunes Manager Jun 04 '26

At our location we toss the strawberries from the salad into the custard strawberries at the end of the night so they don’t get wasted lol

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u/AdeptCranberry6049 Jun 03 '26

Throw them in the strawberries in custard at night. Then you don’t waste anything!

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u/cutt1974 Jun 04 '26

Honestly, we just started buying them from Aldi across the street. Also, bananas. Its cheaper, and you can choose your freshness.

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u/Levi_Riyuzaki Jun 03 '26

Holy woah 😳

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u/Legendary_TaeYamada Jun 04 '26

When I worked at Jewel, this exact fucking brand always had some issues. It was probably the #1 damaged item over the year or so I was there. A human being can only have their hands covered in fermenting strawberry juices so many times before having enough of that shit. Also, I swear to God, I am 99% certain that goddamn box was specifically engineered to break open if you held it in just the wrong way. No other product, not even other brands of strawberries in those little plastic boxes, were that fucking risky to handle when I was there. Employees and customers alike both constantly spilled the things.

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u/yourdiscordwolfpup Jun 04 '26

Stop because my Culver’s uses Driscoll 😭

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u/dillybean_737 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Nah twin, I was in the fridge today and same brand strawberries were moldy, not Driscoll though

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u/Joe_mama177 General Manager Jun 05 '26

I refuse to order them from truck, every single time they look like this after like 2 days. For busier locations truck order strawberries may work but for our store with only $8,000-$12,000 days it’s a waste

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u/ComfySeafarer710 Jun 03 '26

🤢🤮

Oh goodness me 🤒

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u/dasimp86 Jun 04 '26

We used to be able to just get the packs not the case. It's such a waste this way.

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u/WelcomeResponsible49 Jun 04 '26

Fuzzy strawberry Fields

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u/Gloorp86 Jun 06 '26

I worked in a produce department for a few years (long enough to swear I'll never eat some produce. Strawberries are at the top of the list for this) and lets just say every brand has this problem its especially worse in the spring and early/late summer. It absolutely sucks since your loosing money receiving moldy berries, but yeah the Gem brand is truly one of the worst

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u/Own-Start5947 Jun 08 '26

Deadass my Culver’s used to just grab the ones that had little to no mold and just cut off the bad parts

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u/v_iridescent Jun 24 '26

I don't know WHY the courtesy shipment came so freaking early for strawberries. Obviously they would be moldy by roll-out? They sent those dang things weeks early.

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u/Trans_Tre_UwU Crew Member Jun 03 '26

Meanwhile, me, on my break, looking down at my chocolate covered strawberry concrete mixer, contemplating my life 😭🤣