Craig Culver and his family opened the first Culver’s in Sauk City in 1987. Three years later, the restaurant’s franchising arm was born. Culver went on to lead the company, from a single ...
The first Culver's opened in 1984, but that isn't really where the restaurant's story begins. It actually goes back to a couple of decades earlier, when co-founder Craig Culver was just a kid.