The slowest Sonic and food is not great at all! Waited 45 minute for 5 sandwiches! Cancelled the order and have to wait 3 days to get the refund! Don't ever bother to come to this place! read more

The food is solid enough, but unless you feel like waiting 40 minutes for it in a stall, I recommend hitting the drive-through. There'll still be a long wait, but atleast you'll know when it ends. Great place to eat, unless you're actually hungry. read more

Listen. I've been to a lot of Sonic's. This one in ooltewah is the best. What ever staff working as of 02/27/26 at lunch is killing it in that kitchen. The food was exceptional came out quickly and definitely worth every penny I spent. Burger was fresh and very well cooked and tots were perfectly crispy. Staff very pleasant and friendly. Place is clean. Job well done on the staff. read more

The food tasted like old fryer grease. The wait time at the drive through was 14 minutes and I watched two people working while 3 stood on their phones texting. The guy who took my order completely messed it up and when I drove around he was the only male in the building that I could see and he had his phone in his hand texting. This place needs new management or to shut down completely. It's by far the worst sonic in the area and it continues to decline. They need a real adult working with the kids at night. read more

If I could give it zero stars, I would. We've been trying this sonic for years, and it never improves. Always poor quality food (and or thrown together and thrown in a bag making a mess), always messed up orders, and the crew couldn't be unhappier. I'm not sure I'll ever go back, but I know I'll never tip again because even when you tip, you can't even get them to look you in the eye and or smile. read more

When we went to order the person working the drive thru said "don't say hello" when we said hi and tried to order

DONT EAT HERE!!! The worst place to eat. If you come here, you will wait 15 minutes for your order to be taken, and then another 40 minutes for your food. It's just horrible. People order and just leave, because it's impossible to wait that long. The staff is not the friendliest, there are enough people working, but it still take a very long time to prepare everything, maybe there is no control over them. I saw employees just standing there talking and drinking their drinks when there were 6 cars on the drive-thru . And at the end of all, they would make a mistake with your order read more

It's gotten a ton better recently. Food was actually ok, and they were open within hours. Unfortunately I can't say they're great. The wait times can still be brutal, and they forgot part of my order. More than happy to fix stuff though. read more

The Sonic on Main Street in Ooltewah should seriously consider firing everyone and hiring new people. I honestly am surprised they are still in business and can afford to update outside. Horrible service. Took 30 minutes for 5 cars. read more

Horrible customer service!! Order 4 combos and was huffed at multiple times. After ordering the last combo employee said oh my god in disgust!! So I immediately told her to forget our order and left. I called the restaurant to speak to a manager and she (Arianna) tefused to speak to me bc she was the one with the horrible attitude. read more

Staff was very rude and unprofessional. The manager refused to talk over the phone when I called the restaurant. Do not go here.

Horrible service, drive in stalls were broken and the driver through was extremely slow. Staff is very short tempered and irritable and the food was made wrong. read more

They are so slow here. If you are in a rush you need to keep driving. You would do better going somewhere else.

This place should be condemned. The woman running the drive thru has a massive attitude problem and I called the restaurant personally to tell her to fix her attitude. You don't yell at customers as soon as they get up to the microphone. Learn some basic customer service skills before considering getting a job working with customers. I will be calling corporate about this interaction. read more

Everytime I am here it is over 45 min before we get food, and usually they are out of something, and have to sub something else for it.

Ruined my food twice, got size of milkshake wrong, the guy working was very rude, and there was flies in coming out of the window

I ordered through the app while at this sonic and tried to check into the stall. After several minutes where I was getting logged out I pushed the button for assistance. I was notified that they were short staffed and were only servicing the drive thru (there were no signs posted). I proceeded to wait in the drive thru line for 45 minutes. When I received my order I was given a completely melted ice cream in a hot cup. The staff admitted it had been sitting out for 45 minutes and refused to remake it. I asked for a refund and I realized when I got home they shorted me $2. I wasted an hour of my time, didn't receive any of my food and they stole $2 from me. read more

It's a 50/50 shot on whether or not you will get good service. Today I ordered an M&M blast, the top half was M&M but I can't say the same for the bottom. Of course I still ate it cause I payed for it, though it's a bummer I only really got half what I ordered. SONIC can have decent ice cream some of the time, but the service is quite slow. read more

Sonic Drive-In - The bottom half of my SONIC Blast- made with M&M-S- Minis Chocolate Candies, all Vanilla. - Fast Food Near Me - Ooltewah, Tennessee

I waited 15 mins in the drive thru with no answer. Then waited forever in the line for 1 drink and 2 ice creams. I was at this sonic for 40+ mins. read more

First let me start off by saying- this review is not in regards to the food, it's my experience and the employee. I almost got physically assaulted by the "man" in the drive through. I work as a door dash delivery driver, and when I accepted the order for Sonic, I did not know it was under construction, so as I pull up to the sonic I notice that there are two huge construction trucks on both side, as well as cones up & a huge truck for their delivery. I noticed a big suv in front of me turn around because they couldn't fit through, so I assumed I couldn't either and had to park down the street and walk to pick up the order for the customer. When I walked up and pressed the red button, I was first greeted with an attitude. The employee rudely said "welcome to sonic how may I help you" in a snarky tone. It didn't bother me much, I figured they might be short staffed. I kindly let him know I'm here for a door dash and said the name. He proceeded to rudely say if I want it I can "come through the drive thru." I look over and see him looking at me through the window, so he clearly knows I don't have my car next to me. I tell him I couldn't pull in due to construction, and he said "I SET UP THE CONES MYSELF SO PEOPLE CAN COME IN." okay sir, well unfortunately I couldn't. So I am here to get the order and told him again what it was. (It was only two drinks- a regular coke and a regular Dr Pepper). he tells me again, "you can go get your car." So I explained further, not sure what he wasn't understanding. Then he rudely says, "what is the name then????" And by this point, I've said it two or three times already. So I politely said, " like I said it's ____". I watch him THROW his headset, storm out the door and up to me screaming at the top of his lungs. "LIKE I SAID??????" And kept walking towards me. After the fourth time screaming he is now in my face. I said "yes?" I was very confused at what was happening. He then screams more about how I am rude. Funny, as he is screaming (nearly spitting from anger) in my face. I am not about to get physically assaulted for a door dash order that he wouldn't give me when he saw in my hands I had the order pulled up, so I calmly said "this is crazy, you are crazy, I can't do this." And proceeded to walk away when he then screams more "we have cameras!!!" Good, I'm glad. Hopefully your boss saw you storm out of your "safe space" to come up into a woman's face who is a partner with your company, here to pick up an order and you wanted her to feel unsafe and scared and to prove you're "so manly." Let's see how that works out for you when everyone knows you tried assaulting customers. I have no words. I've already filed reports with corporate, door dash, and considering police. but I wanted to let everyone know their attitude problems are insane here. I've never felt so attacked and unsafe in my life, at a "restaurant." Beware read more

Worst Drive thru I've ever been to. We pull up to the pay/food window and the man there opens the door and stares with no word. We hand him the credit card and he takes it and stares at us for a few seconds and shuts the window. About 10 minutes later, he opens the door again and says nothing so we ask him for our shakes. He says "did y'all pay yet?". He gives us our food after we told him what we ordered again. Never coming back again. read more

This is the slowest "fast food" place ever. I've lived nearby for a couple years and they take so long that I've literally left just waiting for them to take orders. Unbelievable! read more

thus is an image of a fetus we found in our fries.... this sonic us criminal. they gave me 2 normal cookie dough bites and gave me a half of my last one and they are hard as a rock!!! the chicken is okay i guess... but we need to tear this sonic down!!!! down with the patrimony!!! down with the monarchy!!!!! read more

Sonic Drive-In - Fries - Fast Food Near Me - Ooltewah, Tennessee

This sonic is always slow. Their food is over cooked and cold. It's just absolutely disgusting. I've gotten food poisoning from eating here and I will never go back again. read more

Waiting at the food screen for 3 minutes to then be told to go to the drive through for another 5 minutes to tell me they are closed once I get to the drive thru screen. Did not serve customers until close! read more

Understaffed. This makes it difficult for workers to keep track of everyone's order. Drive thru or Not, expect a long wait read more

Just like a reviewer said four days ago, you have a 50/50 chance of your order being wrong. The drive thru speaker is absolutely terrible which could be the reason. Today I got a grilled cheese sandwich and it feels like soft white bread with no grill marks to be seen. I have to grill it at home now after I take this picture. read more

Sonic Drive-In - Grilled? Cheese? Soft bread, no grill marks. - Fast Food Near Me - Ooltewah, Tennessee

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Crappy service and ice cream is sub par. I got a huge sonic blast with ONE scoop of toppings on top and none mixed in. Sometimes the app doesn't work and the workers refuse to give you the 1/2 off discount. read more

Always good service here. also very clean read more

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

Where are sitting here waiting for over an hour and will still be in the counter and I encounter and we're waiting for an order over an hour it away and your mother is not so yes or had about writing so thank you read more

I always have negative experiences here. Terrible service. Took 15 minutes just to order a drink. The employee had a bad attitude and was cussing a lot in front of me. read more

I'm not from this town. I had only stopped at this Sonic to grab some drinks for my kids and their friends (four drinks total) and me a chicken slinger and water. not a large order but it ended up taking 25+ minutes- the milkshakes were already melting when we got them. The slinger - a dime size amount of Mayo and the sandwich was cold and the chicken hard. the guy who brought to us was nice enough but street clothes, no uniform on.. wish I checked the reviews before spending money there. read more

45 minutes - mobile order - no food. i ordered one thing. maybe if the manager would go inside and help the crew they wouldn't be so "short staffed". this entire town is dead. read more

Sonic Drive-In - manager dude just standing outside for the past hour - Fast Food Near Me - Ooltewah, Tennessee

The food seems to be acceptable and meeting health code requirements but employee professionalism is extremely lacking. While being served our food l, the staff member at the window yelled at another employee really loudly "B****, I really gotta go pee!" With my mouth agape, we drove away. read more

I was at our local Sonic in Ooltewah, TN when I saw a worker vaping on the patio. Even worse, there were about 8 kids and a baby in the patio area while he was vaping. Then, when I got up to the drive-in window, I saw a worker INSIDE the building (where food is cooked and drinks are prepped) vaping!!! I could not believe it! Since when is it okay to vape around food and orders for customers? I will not return unless things change. I love Sonic, so this bums me out, yet, my health and my kids' health is more important. read more

This review is about the service at the Ooltewah Sonic. It is the WORST service ever. My husband and I think they are making it hard to place an order for their own amusement. Either all of their speakers are broken or they really enjoy pretending to not be able to understand you. We finally ordered 1 corn dog and 1 ff and it took 15 minutes to get our order. They said they were short staffed. Whatever the excuse, we won't be back. I'd rather drive out of our way if I really want a Sonic. read more

None of the food preparers wear masks. Wearing it under your chin defeats the purpose.

Because the drive thru speaker is horrible, I went to the parking spot and ordered from there. The speaker was much better. Ordered a milkshake and literally it was milk, this had been made earlier not right when I ordered it. The debit card reader did not work, so the car hop had to take the debit card to a different machine and run it from there. If anything this sonic is consistent with mediocre service. read more

Sonic Drive-In - New monitors - Fast Food Near Me - Ooltewah, Tennessee

Well I wrote a bad review on here and sonic asked me to give them another chance. I was not disappointed. It was exactly how I thought it would go. All I ordered was 2 slushies, how could they possibly get that wrong. I ordered a large lemon slush with strawberry and a large cherry slush. I get to the window and the associate asks if I had a medium limeade slush and cherry slush. I say know it's a large cherry slush and a large lemon slush with strawberry. He said yeah that's right a proceeds to hand me the wrong order anyway. So I reject it and he calls the manager. I have to wait till they refund me and then ring it up again. So much for reducing contact right. They remake the lemon slush and hand it to me. Only this time without the strawberry flavor. Again he takes it to the manager, who by the way made the drink. She gets a disgusted look on her face a remakes it again. This time there was soooo much strawberry flavor that the lemon slush was more red than the cherry slush. At this point I'm just going to assume that the Sonic company, the owner and management just really doesnt care. With this attitude I'm surprised they have any customers. Since this is the way they handle business I will never eat there again. read more

I like to come here for happy hour which is between 2 and 4. Drinks are half price including sweet tea and slushes. Also, where else can you order lunch or dinner and they bring it to you in the car. Chili cheese burgers with slaw and onions the best burger here. read more