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    Sonic Drive-In

    1.8 (48 reviews)
    Open 7:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    A sandwich with the peice of plastic inside
    Oliver

    Normally, we have no issues with this establishment. However, on July 26th, we went and drove up. we ordered our food like normal, and my mother, who was with me at the time, found a piece of plastic in her sandwich, and then, as she was finishing up, she found another one and if she would've swallowed it her throat could've been damaged severely.

    Delfina E.

    This sonic has the worst service. No carbonated drinks. App does not work. None of their car hop drive ups do not work.

    Two weeks and still nasty.

    There are 3522 Sonic Drive-Ins in the US and you have found absolutely THE worst one! For over a year now most of the red buttons on the menu board have been broken! When you ask them, they say "yeah we know." No sign on them, nothing. Not sure how the drive thru has priority over someone coming to eat there, but they do. I watched 6 different cars pull into the drive thru, order, and leave before our order was taken! They have no outdoor cleaning protocol apparently. One order kiosk has had mud all over it for over two weeks! Today I sat there for 16 minutes waiting to order and heard two other cars that pulled in after us place their order!? Sonic has been around for 71 years. That's plenty of time get some kind of business standard established. Rock bottom customer service. For a faster burger, go to the sale barn and buy a calf. In 4 years or so, you'll be set.

    Dave O.

    For full disclosure, my superior rating is to offset the other horrendous reviews that seem just so unfounded. Furthermore, I don't like reviewing fast food chain restaurants, other than service they're all identical! Nevertheless, I just can't see all of these onesies and twosies for this joint. We stopped in on the way to the McCall's Pumpkin Patch and were totally satisfied. So if you're reading, corporate folk, it has improved. Extremely prompt response on the intercom, fast delivery time after ordering and everything was correct. The actual grub was exactly what one would expect, so I just don't get all the negativity. So current readers, it's not nearly as bad as previous reviewers annotated. It's a Sonic, what more do you want? Cheers!

    After getting to the bottom of drink and ice.....this is what was left.

    Workers are really nice but I can't get past the sandy grit that was found at the bottom of every drink I purchased yesterday. All 3 of the Route 44 Cokes I purchased for myself and my kids had some sort of dirty grit in the cups. As you can see from the pics I added here, it's pretty disgusting and has ended our visits to this location.

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    i was waiting for about 30 minutes just to order my food, and the wait to get food, took even longer. not worth the wait if you ask me.

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    The food is good but service is slow. I know they don't have much help for employees. But still so slow.

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    Came at 2PM on a Saturday. I understand it's a busy time, but a 50 minute wait for a limeade and a corn dog is too much.

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    Waited 20 minutes for them to take our order and we didn't even get it. While they looked at us throught the windows

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    Very bad customer service very slow and I went back three times with a messed up order and they just could not get it right

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    If you like your food to sit under a heating lamp till it's jerky, this is the place for you!!!!

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