I've been reading reviews about the parking and button situation, and honestly--that's not on the employees. If the system isn't working the way it's supposed to, just bypass the parking stalls, hit the drive-through, and park. Easy fix. Now... food talk. I've had Sonic before and it was meh. BUT this location? Whole different story. We've gotten food here two days in a row, during the day/afternoon, and YUM. Everything was fresh, hot, and actually tasted like it was made with intention. We both got smash burgers, plus fries, onion rings, and a cherry limeade on my end--so dang good. Big shoutout to the morning/afternoon crew. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it. Thank you!! read more

We drove up to the drive thru at 10:36pm. Google says it was still open soon and closes at 12pm. We waited for 10 minutes behind another car thinking they were taking forever to order. They finally drove up and we pull forward and wait for only three minutes (considering we were there for 10 already) and leave to go up to the window. Lights were on but nobody was there. read more

Long wait for the food but the dirty coke was very good. Good vibes too. The hot dog was pretty good! Cheeseburger had good flavor but the cheese was cold and not melted. Cheese curd jalapeño things were ok. Fries were incredible! I'd go back but not for awhile read more

This is absolutely the worst Sonic we have ever been to. Most of the locals know not to eat at Sonic in Pigeon Forge, and now we do also! On June 11th, 2025, @ 2130, we took a group of baseball players there from Ripken Baseball Field after a baseball tournament. The kids like Sonic from where we are from. The line of cars behind us was to the street, but the line was moving VERY Slow. What we noticed is that vehicles were just pulling out of li e and leaving after waiting 15 minutes or so. When we got to the ordering speaker, the woman asked if we were from Door Dash. We said no. Then NOTHING!!! After 5 minutes I asked if she was going to take our order, NOTHING!!! Another 5 minutes, NOTHING!!! Through the speaker we could hear people laughing. So I asked them why they were so RUDE and disrespectful to people and inconsiderate to their time? She said, GET the F* OUT of here, We're not taking g orders!!! I told her that she was a disgusting person and left. As we drove by the window, three people, all American Americans, were laughing. The woman gave us the finger, and I took a pic of it!!! We were so so so lucky not to eat from this place. We stopped by the nearby WalGreens and bought some ice cream. The manager there told us NEVER to eat at any of the Sonics in the area. She said that all the Locals knew that!!! Well, now we let all the people at Ripken field know that and they put this information on their site and blog!!! Terrible people. Unclean, disgusting workers ( not working), and very untrustworthy. Not a place to bring your kids! read more

Sonic Drive-In - After keeping us waiting 30 minutes, she gave us the finger as we left and drove by! She told us to F* off! - Burgers Near Me - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

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The speed of service was exceptionally slow especially being the location was not busy at the time of visit; however, once served (25 minutes for one chicken wrap and grilled cheese) the food was fresh and tasty. The price was fantastic especially for being in a tourist area. The car hop was kind. read more

The food taste. Nasty service is bad. They only have her drive-through I would not recommend read more

Sonic Drive-In - The hamburger was very nasty - Burgers Near Me - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

Ordered 99 cent cheeseburger special. Cheap meal, didn't order fries - which I should have. It would have made the meal more complete.

Tried the new grilled cheese cheeseburger and I have to say it wasn't half bad; for a fast foot burger. It's a double cheeseburger with thick Texas toast style bread instead of the traditional bun. Overall not bad. The best part of going to sonic are the pretzels and cheese. They complete with restaurants all day long on flavor. They're soft and the cheese dip is slightly tangy from the mustard that's in it. This location is a nightmare to order from. The drive thru lines block in the customers sitting at the stalls, so be forewarned. read more

Sonic Drive-In - Grilled Cheese Burger - Burgers Near Me - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

If you want a nice meal, don't come here. We waited 20 minutes just for them to take our order. I got a m&m shake with chocolate ice cream and whip cream and when my order came out it was a vanilla shake, with one little small dollop of whipped cream, and all my m&m's were at the bottom. The reason I even got the m&m shake was because on the ad it looked so delicious and when the guy handed it to me, all my hopes and dreams of getting a good shake disappeared. If you are coming here in hopes of getting a good shake, go to the shake n' steak down the road. read more

I give this place an overall zero. Tell me why we pulled up at 11:26pm and they never answered so we left at 11:47pm. This place is absolutely horrible. They also turned off the lights except for ours. I felt really discriminated because some people clicked the button at the same time as us and they got to order and got their food before we ever did. read more

Sonic is so forgettable that you almost forget it while you're still eating... I try so hard to like it, but there just is nothing there to go crazy about. This location seemed to be better than other ones I've visited in the past... So there is that. read more

Sonic, Sonic, Sonic. When will you learn? It's Friday night, July 3rd in Pigeon Forge and your drive thru Lane is out to the road...soo ...it appears you are understaffed, underprepared, and in no hurry to speed things up. Pulled in at 7:10 and now it's 8:00. There's still. one. more. car. ahead. of. us. Why? Why?? C'mon, folks. You've got to do something to figure this out. I think you should put less effort into social distancing and COVID guidelines here, and start putting more effort in serving food which is your first priority. Sonic is already designed to be socially distanced in the first place. It's a drive-in! And this one you can't even drive in to....and at this point you can't drive thru either! Sheesh! You're a good restaurant now get your act together. read more

Ordered 1 hotdog with mustard, 2 footlong chili dogs and 2 root beers 1 strawberry Lemonade. Received wrong Lemonade, 1 chili dog without chili. 15 mins later brought me a cup of chili to put on cold hotdog. COLD fries. Terrible service and bad attitude DO NOT EAT THERE !!!!¡!! read more

Went thru the drive through and ordered a shake and UNSWEETENED tea, well after a 20 minute wait we get our drinks , and the tea is SWEETENED tea , so what I'm getting at is we waited 20 minutes just to get the wrong order, I'm not sure what their problem was but it looked to me like a bunch of young kids not caring about customer service. read more

Still claiming shortage on personnel but takes the manager 20 mins to speak in speaker to let you know. Cash only when arrive at window to pay so he have to leave without your order if don't have cash. read more

Wow. This place needs a complete overhaul of its staff. They were extremely rude. Cars were pulling off one after another from waiting too long. Our's was a mobile order so we had already paid for it. We waited an hour and was told it still wasn't ready. It's not like we placed some huge order. They were extremely rude when we tried to cancel the order. They refused to refund it. We had to call corporate to get a refund processed. Sonic needs to clean house with this location and start over with new staff. read more

The food is actually ok and the time to fill your order is excellent. The main ingredient in a successful business is customer focus. This Sonic totally lacks in that area. The order taker was to the point of being rude. I would not recommend!! read more

They have signs up advising that walk up patio orders are open but also discouraging them and advising the preferred way is the drive through due to covid. Doesn't really make sense because no one is wearing a mask and I'm sure they still accept credit card and cash which would be mutual touching of items etc... also still allow pressing buttons so none of it really makes sense. They also lived up to their advisement that drive through is the preferred way...they never answered the intercom to assist us and drive through was very long. Seems like they made it a point to not answer the intercom on the patio. read more

The staff where very rude and unhelpful. You pull up to parking stations and if you are not picking up you are not wanted at this business. They do not want to serve anyone that is not taking it to go. So if you have plans to eat in don't stop here. I feel this is a bad business practice for Sonic so we will not be stopping here again. read more

Definitely one of those times that I should have read the other reviews. We typically stop at a Sonic location at least once on every road trip. Since we were staying in Pigeon Forge, we decided to stop at their location. Mistake. We ordered from the outside seating area. They obviously do not like guests using that spot as there is a sign that it is only supported for limited purposes, and they were slow to respond. We placed our order. Following several selections, we were told that they were out of the chosen item. We ended up with only about half of our selections because they didn't have many of the items selected. There are many restaurant options in Pigeon Forge. Stop by any of the others. read more

I ordered food on the mobile app. My mother in law checked in with my name and I heard her over the phone say we have you checked in, food will be right out. An HOUR later the food never showed and when I called they hung up on me twice and refused to give us a refund. We had to call headquarters to get a refund. We let them know what happened. People were waiting in the drive through and weren't being waited on. Finally driving off. People were driving off after waiting to order and never receiving food. Go to another location. They were so rude. read more

Fast pace, good food. The slushies were great as well as the chili dog and corn dog for my son.

We sat here for a half hour just waiting to order food ! Dont come here !! If it takes that long to order you shouldnt even have opened your doors ! read more

This was not pleasant. I ordered 50$ worth of food for my family and the fries were nasty and brown from sitting. I ordered a bacon cheeseburger with just ketchup and they gave me a plain one. I wouldn't have been that flustered about it but they did not give me ketchup packets either. They forgot the bbq sauce for the popcorn chicken. My patties were burnt on the edges. The only thing that was good was all our shakes. read more

This is the worst sonic I've ever been too, the service was horrible employees claiming staffing shortages when it was very clear they had adequate staffing, and when they opened the drive through window it smelled of marijuana and all of the staff looked stoned and very unhelpful. read more

We were there for 45 minutes. First window, no one answered call button, then went to drive thru annnd woman said please hold...15 minutes later.... We went to another window and FINALLY someone came on to take an order. read more

Literally the worst sonic I've ever been to. We pull up and say they're only taking app or drive through so we try to order on the app and eat as a family at their patio and then they tell us we couldn't eat on the patio. The drive through had 3 people in front of us and took 15 minutes to get through. read more

On vacation stopped in for dinner car hop ordered double cheese burger n onion rings but they said they were out of onion rings so hubby got tots . I ordered grilled chicken n tots everything tasted ok . The wait didn't really take very long . Something different then we usually eat ! read more

SONIC SUCKS. We went two times waited a half hour each time wasn't even spoke to the whole time after pressing the button millions of times. They also find it fun to shut down their drive through randomly. They are DDF's ! If you want one little thing don't even waste your time coming to this place read more

Worst experience ever at a Sonic. The Carhop stations "aren't working" making it drive thru only. While 3 employees were sitting outside smoking. Out of onion rings, they say they don't have the app, yet the app has it possible to order from them. Food was a MESS, not worth a 15 minute wait in the drive thru or $50 bill. Will not be back. read more

I always wanted to try Sonic and I finally did!!! yayyy me!!! I had heard mixed feeling about this place but to me, the food was amazing! I loved it! Can't wait till they open the one in Florida. I had a yummy oreo shake which was sooo good! I also had a burger which was sooo good! ahhhh, just can't wait to go again. read more

Went to go stop by this sonic around 8:30. After a 25 min. wait, the lady said they were not serving food because the grill was down?? She said they have drinks only. The Five Guys down the street will not disappoint you. The grill is NEVER down at Five Guys. Love Five Guys. read more

Getting my sons some Sonic Blasts so they can get their milkshake fix. It it always good for providing quality fast food that you feel bad for eating, but it provides the quality fast food you just gotta have sometimes. As an aside, I would easily recommend the food at this Sonic versus some of the overpriced tourist traps in the area :) read more

Worst ever. Was a walk up customer waited over 10 minutes at kiosk, was never treated or helped. Walked away. I guess not all customers are accepted. Wouldn't even rate them with a star but I had to pick one. All I want was a drink. Ugh read more

Very busy. Slow service. Ran out of medium cups and didn't tell us when we ordered. Credit card machine was down and had to wait a while to pay after we had already gotten our food. As far as Sonic food goes, cheeseburger and tots were great. read more

I've been a fan of Sonic for many years, but I was extremely disappointed with our visit to the Sonic in Pigeon Forge near Dollywood on the evening of 7/16/13. The food was cold, the fries and tots were half-full, and the corn dogs tasted [and felt] like fried rubber. I don't know if it's something that has changed with all Sonic restaurants [I haven't been to a Sonic in over a year] or if it's specific to this particular restaurant, but I honestly don't know if I will return to a Sonic. You might wonder why I gave 3 stars when I had such a bad experience. The only saving grace was the friendly, beautiful, courteous waitress (carhop) who cruised out on skates and brought our food in record time. If the food had been worth eating, the waitress would have pushed this experience to 4 or 5 stars. read more

Literally the worst Sonic ever. We got in line for food near the end of the night, 10:05pm and they close at 10:30. There were several cars in front of us and it seemed like this location is not run with any motivation to make revenue or customers happy. While waiting in line, at exactly 10:30pm...still in the same place we were for the past 25 minutes since the drive thru lane was THE ONLY way to order food, they shut off every light and decided to no longer acknowledge a single customer while waiting. We respectfully informed them of our wait time and requested that they honor the patience of their customers, or even just acknowledge the inconvenience, however the only response we received was that "We're closed" then they chose to ignore us after that and continue to motion to us to leave from the window, like they did to the other 5 or 6 cars before us. It is peak season and for some reason they continue to use the same excuses year after year. I would highly recommend a change in management because whoever was working as the leader tonight was not anywhere close to the material it takes to staff and run this fast food restaurant efficiently and with respect to the community they're in. read more

if you dont want people to pull up to the stalls, put some cones out. got stuck waiting to get out because of drivethru line trapped us in. did the drive thru and they forgot a drink. ice cream is good. read more

Rude. Never ordered outside before. Didn't know how and the menu is so packed with items it's hard to find what you're looking for. So, I decided to ask. Acted like I was a bother for dating to ask anything. Tried to be nice but wanted to continue with rude exchange. Said forget it and left. They weren't busy btw read more

Worst sonic experience I've ever had. Tried using the app to start off. Doesn't work here. Went to the drive thru and the sign said "out of order." Drove BACK to the drive in side and over half the machines were "out of order." It said no service since it's so busy and they recommend the drive thru ((which is ironic because it's broken)). Pulled up to a working speaker and the first thing I hear is "we are only taking cash payments at the moment. Is that okay?" I can't believe we actually stayed for drinks, but I will never recommend this place or plan on going back in the future now. read more