Carl's Ice Cream Factory

601 W Locust St, Bloomington
(309) 828-7732

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Andrew Smith

I’m a newcomer to the area and heard about Carl’s from locals. It’s that good. Lots of options and quality ice cream.

Mark Marshall

Love the strawberry shortcake

Scott Draminski

They have parking all around and is a walk up to order. You will have a little trouble deciding what to get cause it all looks so good.

Tisha Matthews Van Horn

Don’t go during the summer. Was 8pm, line to the back door inside brook 20 minutes to get up front. Ordered the butterscotch dipped cone. Coating looked funny and smelled rancid. I thorn stood in line for another 20 min to show the girl. No apology. Gave me a smaller, plain cone. This place is so poorly managed. High school kids with no respect for customer service!

Royd

Awesome! They have strawberry serve ice cream!

Kyra

Delicious! They were very patient with us while we took an eternity to decide what we wanted.

Preston B

Everything we had was amazing

Michael Cory Smalley

. Got a medium ice cream cone and a small ice cream cone and they were exactly the same size

Gabrielle Croegaert

Make sure if you go here and the power “ goes out “ like it seems to do quite frequently you take it upon yourself to go make sure your food is being cooked. Me and my kids waited 40 minutes and when others started getting their food before us we finally asks where ours was the reason given was because the power went out so our order was lost even though they saw us sitting in their dining room with a number on our table ? So after the 40 minutes we were told they would start making ours and it would be 7 minutes longer , we decided to wait , after another 12 minutes and over an hour after it was said and done we said forget it and got our money back….. we tried getting told “ well that’s your food right there “ as I was getting my refund lol and the nice lady behind the counter replied to the lady no it’s not it’s another tables …. Just a warning to anyone going here to eat inside of the power goes out check on your order !!!

Steve Ladson

We ordered a kids chicken strips and a basket of fries. While we waited patiently with our number (12), other guests arrived and placed their orders. After noticing that people who ordered after us had finished their entire meals, I went up to the management and asked what happened to our order. I was then told that it was because I ordered chicken strips that it took over forty minutes to make such a simple order. Keep in mind that a family with four children who came in after us had already gotten their fries and were halfway done with their ice cream. Another table that had two gentlemen who also ordered after us had finished their cheeseburgers. I have been a professional in the short order cooking business for over twelve years in the past, and I know for a fact it does not take that long to make chicken fingers (even if they were made from scratch and not frozen). I usually buy the gift certificates every Black Friday, but that will never happen again. I will never return to this establishment. Please feel free to reach out to me to buy my unused $30 gift certificates at half price, but be warned---this place is poorly managed, understaffed, and desperate for a line cook who can manage a couple deep-frier orders in a timely manner. Although I prefer to support local businesses, there are far better alternatives in town, like Culver's and Gene's. So ends about twenty years of patronage and many good family memories.

sara vazquez

Delicious, huge and good price. Two ice creams 7 euros

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

John Campbell

Small service, hand dipped ice cream way too soft, got a double scoop and it was barely a scoop. Don’t recommend at all

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Angie Reed

We love the chocolate passion! Get it and share it!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Terris Ayres

Ice cream was very good service was not friendly at all.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 2

byron suey

I had the turtle sundae last weekend and it was the best sundae I’ve ever had in my life. It was incredible.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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