We just opened our first San Diego area Sonic.
You can not imagine the lines. It takes 30 minute wait for drive thru only.
They have hired a traffic team for the cars and you have a staging area wait of 45 minutes and up to enter the parking lot.
The menu seems light not all of the stuff I remembered. a sonic burger, the footlong hot dog, chicken sandwich frito wrap, chick strips and that is it. all the other stuff tots and limeaid.
want to make a fortune? open a Custard store here or real Bar BQ.
Only ONE Sonic?
Oh...Wait...I seem to recall an interesting thread here on Sonic in Southern California...Pete had some interesting things to say about somebody owning the rights to them or something.
And San Diego had real BBQ when I lived there.
Hmm. I'm sorry I love Sonic for being good to Oklahoma and it has a ton of variety but they're food is so bland...
> ... have a staging area wait of 45 minutes and up to enter the parking lot.
I like Sonic, stop in regularly. But it is what it is, fast fuel.
Waiting 45 minutes to order? Then it's simply fuel, and not for me at that point.
Luck with that.
I heard the same type of story about Sonic's new location in Grand Rapids, Michigan as well. I recall their national ad campaign in West Michigan when I still lived there 4 years ago (and they ran quite a while before I moved). Many people who saw the ads were upset when searching for the closest Sonic. I think it was brilliant to go national with advertising and then slowly expand - the pent up demand is perfect. Plus, the comedy of the their ads is great.
Wow. I can't believe this! It's great!
When I lived in Boulder, CO - I'd drive 30 minutes to the nearest Sonic in Longmont. I missed it so much and have completely over-indulged in it since I've been back!
I was a carhop at the one in Stillwater years ago -- I think it is the first in Okla?
and the 45 minute wait doesn't suprise me, okies have been known to wait for an hour or more for a Krispy Kreme doughnut!
First Sonic was in Shawnee.
I never saw lines for KK like they had in Denver. Well over an hour.
I was working out in Sacramento and the Valley area and the guys that I was doing site surveys with kept talking about this "new burger place" in Modesto, then we pulled into Sonic...I just laughed and told them about how they are as common as Subway stores in OKC.
I still recall spotting a Sonic in Fredericksburg, VA a couple of years ago without warning. I was so excited, I nearly wrecked the car. They have a second one, now.
Sonic bacon rocks. Perfectly thick and super crispy.
When I was living in DC the closest sonic was in Baltimore, MD. I would have traded the rights to my first born for a coney, tots and cherry limeade slush. I have family from Australia that has been living in the DC area for several months now and when they came out to visit OKc they were nearly in tears with excitement at how many sonics they had here. In fact, they enjoyed OKC so much they're planning on looking for work here to stay permanently.
Bunt, I'm sorry but that brings up 3 forum references. If you want to see what the truth is go to Sonic Corp. -- Company History where you will read
Oklahoma Origins
The Sonic concept originated in Shawnee, Oklahoma in the early 1950s. Troy Smith, a World War II veteran, operated a small diner called the Cottage Cafe ...............
And, from the same article ...
... and in 1959 the Stillwater restaurant became the first to adopt the Sonic name.
Y'all both be be right. Sonic arose from the Top hat guys but the first one they called Sonic was in Pokeville.
The Krispy Kreme opening in Denver was just lunacy. I lived about a mile from the one on the south side and saw how people piled into it after waiting for 45 minutes to an hour for a pretty mediocre donut! Its like people who complain about global warming and Republicans and eating meat, but then sit in an Apple store for 3 days before they release the newest iPhone. Get some priorities folks! Sonic's good but it will be there a month from now.
Then you should have seen the Krispy Kreme opening here in OKC on the southside when they first came to town, way more than 45min-1hr. By the way, Krispy Kreme isn't near as good as they were years ago. I remember in college in Athens, GA. people would wait in line forever to get some and that is after they were open there for years.
> I'd rather look right than be right.
Then you're more than qualified to run for just about any elective office
8^)
Met the sales manager for Waste Management in OKC, back around the time that Krispy Kreme opened in south OKC. They had to have police escort to pick up the garbage. True story.
My sister works for the largest franchiser of Sonics - Mason Harrision and Ratliff - and they say that their business shot up big time when they stopped using Frankie Avalon in their commercials and started using the Second City comedy troup.
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