Extremely long wait. Tried to call and cancel our order due to wait and was unable to. Then receives the wrong order as well and gave it back with no refund offered. read more

Worst place to go at night! Thought me and my husband could go to get a little sweet treat. Just a sweet tea with light ice extra strawberries & a vanilla milkshake with chocolate bits in it. Once I ordered it a double checked if it had bits in it and they lady agreed just for us to wait 15min. There was only one person there. I had to call them back to see if they had my order and they finally remembered to bring it just for my tea to taste all watered down claimed to be made "fresh" that was a whole lie it was all melted ice, and my husband's milkshake was all watered down and only chocolate. Ridiculous I respectfully asked for a refund just for them to send a manager and the manager only brought us a ticket for a free item next time. We don't even plan on going back so I wanted a refund just for her to say I wouldn't be able to get a refund just because I didn't like it. Worst food service able! They should respectfully shut down read more

Worst Sonic in the world do not go there. Waited for 30 minutes for food they forgot about and it was cold. Horrible.

A few weeks ago I took my four year old daughter to go get a slushy. When I pulled up they said they were drive through only that day. So we went to the drive through and it took 40 minutes and o get two drinks. Bad experience, but I get it, things happen, people call out unexpectedly etc. Today I went back and we were going to get a slushy and watch the planes land. We get out and go to place our order, same thing. Drive through only. I tell them I'm not doing the drive through, making my kid sit in the car for thirty minutes. She said she's the only one trained, although I can see multiple people in there. I had to drag my sobbing four year old back to the car. If you can't get enough employees to run your business, maybe you shouldn't be a business. read more

I would give them no stars if I could. I ordered, the order was not correct, I corrected it and then sat at the window for 20 minutes, told her FOUR TIMES that the order was incorrect and she STILL handed me the wrong order. read more

When you order two drinks at 5:28 and it's 5:46 when you pull up to the window.... It would be one thing if this were a Whataburger read more

Sonic Drive-In - Me waiting in the drive-through line for 15+ minutes - Fast Food Near Me - Alcoa, Tennessee

Made the mistake of not looking at the reviews before ordering from here on DoorDash. Shocker! All one star reviews after flying across the US all day on a min rest overnight I thoroughly enjoyed waiting an hour and a half for my food. If you're short staffed, do not accept orders on DoorDash! read more

I came to knoxville for a softball tournament and after a long day of heat and 3 games back to back i wanted sonic, we drive here and i was ready to eat because i hadn't eaten all day, the tater tots were great! but the corn dog is what caught me by surprise, it was black! burnt to a crisp, it was rock hard and i didn't end up eating until late! thanks sonic... read more

This used to be a pool location for dinner. It's either there machined are broke or food Is wrong. These people don't want to work. The ice cream machine is broken as well as the other machine that makes slushes at same time. It's really pathetic how all the faat food places are. read more

Waited 30+ minutes after we ordered at the window when they were not busy at all and turned out they somehow "lost" our order. Made us re-order and then wait even more while they put it in again and actually made our food. We ordered 3 things. I genuinely think the lady taking our order was high or something, because she kept repeating corn dogs on our order when we never said anything about corndogs. When we did finally get our order, we had to call them back twice because they kept forgetting our sauces after repeatedly asking for them. Worse sonic experience ever. read more

Fantastic today! I got the double cheese burger meal, it came out to me hot (steaming) fresh and correct in like 5 minutes! I was so impressed i called the store and told the manager about it and she said they have been working hard to turn things around. Keep up the great work! It will take time to overcome past issues. read more

Our adventure started when we pulled up to the mic to order. No cars at all, so zero wait to be expected. A very sweet young lady answered the mic, and said she would be with us in one minute. I can tell you that she was not with us in one minute, but more like 20. Once she was able to take our order, we ordered and she even repeated exactly what we wanted. But as we were ordering on the mic with the sweet young lady, a tan beat up suburban passed us in line and ordered at the window. Didn't know you could do that, but they did. We got to the window expecting our order to be complete (hint: the extra 20 min we waited for the tan suburban in front of us to get their order). In fact, she had not even started on our order! To our surprise the super sweet young lady on the mic was not at all sweet, young, or super. But actually I think she must of had a meth addiction (hint: her brown teeth which could of used some toothpaste that would have been cheaper than the Mountain Dew she had been sippin' on all day). As we watched, she started the order. Only 3 drinks. That all we ordered. 15min is how long it took to make the drinks. Just regular dinks. Nothing fancy. And to our surprise, they were not the drinks we ordered at all. Totally different. This location of sonic is struggling and needs help. Will be starting a GoFund Me for meth girl working sonic 24/7- please help! read more

Skip this Sonic! Unbelievably SLOW service & almost nothing right when it finally does arrive. Food wasn't good, tots were OLD (& half there). Even the limeades tasted different . Iced coffee tastes like chocolate milk. No fork (had to eat BBQ wings w/ fingers). Did I mentioned it took over 30 minutes to even get all this!?!? Go somewhere else unless you have time to kill & don't mind bad food. read more

My girlfriends and I came to this sonic location for happy hour and the lady that worked in the drive thru was extremely rude. When we pulled up to the window she gave us the most annoyed and nastiest look like she did not want to serve us at all. She handed my friend her shake and closed the window abruptly. When we realized that there was no whipped cream on the shake we waited for 2 minutes to ask for another and the lady did not come back to open the window, so we left because the line was piling up behind us. Very disappointed to be treated with such terrible customer service. Her name was Ann. read more

Sonic Drive-In - Fast Food Near Me - Alcoa, Tennessee

I don't know which is more redundant the bad service or me for continuing to dream that it's ever going to get better....

Do yourself a favor & avoid. Wife and I ordered from one of the stalls just after 2 PM on a Tuesday. Wasn't incredibly busy. In the 20 minutes it took for the team to get us our two whole slushes & one order of pretzels, one lady who arrived after us & made her order in the exact same manner as we did, got her food & left. Slushes were mostly juice, & the cheese for the pretzels was cold. I understand it's "happy hour," but it's not as if we're getting our drinks for free. We're still paying & still expect acceptable service. Very unprofessional. Also, we noticed our receipt said the sale was closed after 5 minutes. No the hell it was NOT. If it were, then why would it take a carhop 15 more minutes to get us our order? It also said we gave a round dollar amount when we actually paid in exact change. Not sure what's going on but it's def shady, & no smart mammal would want to be a part of that. read more

We've been in line for 35 minutes. We tried ordering at the stall but were told drive thru only. We then sat for what is going on 40 mins. We've watched multiple employees take smoke breaks and it's obvious nobody cares about their actual job. Hopefully our order is correct... read more

i had to throw my foods away.. I ordered here many time and there always got wrong orders.. I would never came there again ever.. I told them to give me back so they said will return in my card in a day. I don't appreciate their customer service cause I saw somebody inside and they just stand and talked right there and it took us to wait for their foods service.. read more

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Not a very busy Sonic but still had slow service. Ordered a small vanilla shake and almost all of it was whipped cream. Won't be back

I don't know how this one stays open. Service is horrible! Always long wait time. I live close by but drive to the one by Foothills Mall. The other day I drove thru and just ordered a cherry vanilla coke. After driving off I discovered they gave me a diet coke. Don't know why I was surprised. Sad thing is the employees don't seem to care. It's terrible... read more

Pulled into a stall and hit the button. First word I heard when they answered was "F..k...". We were advised that due to low staffing we had ti use the drive thru. We asked of it was still Happy shout and were told yes. After waiting 15 minutes we were told Happy Hour ended an hour ago. read more

We waited 21 minutes for food--tots and burger were cold indicating food was ready just not brought out in a timely manner...not exactly "fast" food. read more

Burgers not fantastic, pretty marginal. We drove through, ordered and in less than 5 minutes had our burgers which were lukewarm! What the heck? Sonic pales in comparison to In and Out Burger in California for sure! Atmosphere is cute though, you feel like you're back in the 50's when they roller skate to bring your food to your car! read more

Sonic Drive-In - Cool drive through or drive in! - Fast Food Near Me - Alcoa, Tennessee

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They totally suck!!! 30 minutes to get a sweet tea!!!! This is just totally ridiculous!! HATEFUL MAN AT THE DRIVE THROUGH!!! They told me 1 price at the drive through and another price at the window!! GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!!!! read more

Waited over 30 minutes for 4 drinks. We finally left. I pushed the button after 20 minutes. They said they'd be right out. Never came. Not the first time this has happened. We will not be back. read more

The non dessert food from this place is terrible. Soggy hot dog buns/smashed burgers/etc. They do the desserts perfectly though. read more

Slowest service ever. They aren't in a rush to do anything except run outside to smoke

We bought four sonic blast an oreo, snickers, butterfinger and reese's. We got them to go and they were in a drink carrier. We got home and two of the cups were only half full. One only had ice cream and the other three barely had any flavors. We have called multiple times to complain and they won't answer the phone. read more

Usually, I try to avoid negative comments, but I just had to wait over 15 minutes for a Green Tea at the drive-thru. Something it broken in the systematics of their "fast food" strategy, especially since I didn't order actual food... read more

We waited 8 minutes after I pushed the button to order our food. It took 20 minutes for our food to come out and the order was wrong.

Go here if you want to wait 30 mins for anyone to even take your order. Every time we go here the drive thru and parking lot is lined up with people that can't get their orders taken or any kind of acknowledgement and leave. Twice I've came here and twice I've left to go somewhere else. read more

Ordered a burger with onion rings. Not difficult. Or so I thought. I waited 35 minutes before I decided to leave without paying to find a better place with quicker "fast" food. I have no idea who the manager is, but y'all need to figure it out and take care of your customers! Jeeze. read more

They took 20 minutes to greet us in the drive thru and all they said was sorry. It then took another 5 minutes after being told to wait for them to take our order, which they had to have me repeat and took multiple confirmations to get right. Overall, 1 star, just cause I like the food. Otherwise it's 0 stars because this place sucks read more

This is honestly the biggest disappointment. I got a sweet tea with lemon, and it tasted like plain water. I ordered food along with it, even ordered ahead, and still it took 20 minutes. Not "fast food" even the slightest. I'd rather eat McDonalds than eat here. read more

We went to this sonic tonight, and they only got a couple of things correct. They gave us our shakes, 8 minutes before we got our food and the rest of the drinks. They didn't get the right sauce that we asked for on our wings, the chili and cheese on our tots and we had to ask to get our 3 drinks after they gave us the rest of the items we asked for, that were paid for, which they weren't going to give us. If it would let me give me a zero rating, I would. read more

Fries are usually cold most of the time, tots are the same way. Don't waste your time on the fries or tots unless it early morning, and the blast are like regular milkshakes barely has any of the chunks of flavor in it always have to ask for extra extra, and the young high school girls are rude as HELL! Laughing talking about fighting and what not and ran out of gas in the drive thru and heard some girl say what kind of dumb ass runs out of gas!? They was laughing the whole time waited 25 mins for food while my car was out of gas in the DRIVE THROUGH and it was wrong and COLD! Always check food and only go to car hops now. read more