Sonic Drive-In
Reviews and Complaints

This is the Sonic 81st and Lewis. I guess it should have been a red flag when there was no one there at happy hour. I ordered a medium water. I get to the window and the lady was going to give me a wacky pack drink. I told her I ordered a medium. She didn't say anything to me just turned around. She gives me a medium drink. When I drink it it is half Srite and half water. It is disgusting. She also didn't give me a receipt for my order. I think I'm pretty much done with Sonic all together. This isn't the first time something like this has happened and I have gone to multiple locations. I have yet to find a good sonic. Sad considering I live in the state it originates.

My father and I went to the drive thru in winnsboro yesterday. My father is an older man and has some hearing issues. When the call was answered she was friendly yound lady who said her name was samantha. My father ordered the carhop classic with tater tots and I guess she may have gotten aggravated with my father because he kept questioning why the he was being chraged for the tater tots he is an older man and didnt understand that they had to be rung up that way. Maybe the young lady thoufht she had turned off her speaker but she made the comment do you know you are really getting on my [censor] nerves just order already. This is unacceptable. Me nor my family will ever do business with sonic again! We love sonic and the rest of our experience waa fine but those words from that yohnd lady were not fine at all. If that is the kind of people that this business emoloyees than they just wont get our business.

We used to go to sonic all the time. We really liked to order the popcorn chicken and the crispy chicken sandwich. Over the last year or so the chicken has been getting worse and worse. The chicken anymore is mostly breading and not much meat. The chicken sandwich I ordered today was flat like a piece of cardboard and tasted like it too. There very little meat and on top of that, all of the breading is rock hard. Like break your teeth hard. Wont be going back for a while. Tired of being disappointed by the food. Hope someone sees this and makes some changes to the food. It used to be so good. Its a shame to see it turn into such garbage.

I eat at sonic several times per week.Tonight I ordered cheeseburger and car hop special to go. I got food home and the ticket was right but wrong food. I had to go back to sonic to return.Told car hop(sweet kid) that I would like to see manager Courtney C. That I thought I should be compensated with a slush or something. He returned later with my order and said that Courtney said that she is to busy to talk to a customer. I explained to him that I work in a hospital and that we make time for complaints of our customers. I spent 50 minutes trying to get dinner tonight. This is unacceptable. There were 6 cars at the Lexington Tn sonic when I left there tonight. This is not the way that a manager should behave.

I just left ordered a number 3 which comes out to be $10.33 and I gave her a $20 bill. I sent the carhop back inside for ketchup and she returned without my change. Once I asked her she said you gave me a $10 bill and proceeded to give me the ketchup. I argued back and forth with her and she still saying she don't owe me any change. She didn't even give me a receipt either. I went to the ATM machine and I'm positive that they don't give out anything but $20 bills. If that's what it takes to get tips baby just find another job. She must really needed that $9.67 lil dumb [censor].

On halloween 4 of us girls decided to go to sonic for lunch. We sent one girl to get all of the orders. One of the girls forgot to give her the money so when she called to tell us that we told her to just put that total which was $3.50 on one of our cards. She advised the car hop to add that one order to one of the other cards it didn't matter which one. One of the other orders was $12.00. Instead of running the $3.50 charge on one of the other cards the car hop had ran the $12.00 on each card multiple times.in return has caused my checking account to over draw since that charge was charged on my card twice plus also charged the other $3.50 to my card. One of the other girls had that $12.00 charge also added to her card and it wasn't her food either. When we called to address it the manager had me and the other girl that had the charges on our cards to come back to her store and show her our bank accounts to prove they were charged multiple times.in my opinion they should have been able to look without us having to show our bank accounts. (That is personal information) but we did like she ask. When we got there we showed our accounts and she called someone and came back and told us it would be 7-10 days before it gets added back to our account.in turn has caused my account to overdraft last night. I called the main office and they transferred me to someone that had no idea what to do. It was a whole different company and something about a security breach that has happened sometime this year. So I guess I am just lucky I have overdraft on my account and I will have to eat those charges. I am a very unhappy customer and sonic doesnt give a crap!

store at 12419 kuykendahl Rd. Houston texas check # 479218
I should have know right off that this was not going to be a good visit. the car hops take the orders. he come outside looking for me in a stall.. I was at the drive thru- #1 mistake. I order 7 corndogs one small tt with cheese. not sure how long 7 corndogs and I small tot with cheese should take.. but this order took 20 minutes. I only have 30 min for lunch. needless to say I was late getting back. #2 mistake. 3rd mistake. I ask another car hop to check on my order.. I am not sure but I think it never was put in. she came out and repeated what I order... duh... he didn't charge me for tt with cheese mistake # 4. so that had to be corrected. brought 7 corn dogs with no mayo or mustard after I told the first carhop I needed mayo and mustard with the corn dogs. wasn't even on the ticket. the second car hop had to go back and get the condiments. Finally 20 min later I am on my way back to my job. I am not asking for nothing in return except, maybe the manager should take the orders at lunch and leave the carhops to deliver the orders. 10/31/2017 was this supposed to be a trick? sure wasn't a treat. maybe hire someone who likes to work and just not someone looking for a paycheck. this sonic has screwed up my orders so many times... I report it and nothing ever comes out of it. I keep going back because I think how can they just keep screwing up? lessoned learned. my building holds about 400 people. maybe I need to seed a email letting them know that this sonic is not the place to order from.

Tonight I ordered 3 mini shakes, a small peanut butter cookie dough blast and a mini chocolate snickers blast. When I got home I realized they had given us a small snickers blast mixed with heath bar and a mini chocolate snickers blast with cookie dough on top. I called the store 3 times before someone actually answered the phone. I told her that my 2 blast orders were messed up and how they were wrong. She was EXTREMELY rude and interrupted me telling me that she made the small blast and knew that it was correct. Then she rudely replied saying, "well what do you want me to do, I can remake it if you bring it back." I spent $15 and had to throw away the 2 blasts because they were completly wrong. I usually come to this Xenia store at least once a week and they messed up our order last time as well and I never called to complain, we just made the best of it. I'm not happy that I spend $15-$20 per visit and have had 2 bad experiences in a row, especially dealing with the rudeness tonight. I'd appreciate a refund for what I spent tonight considering we threw away the drinks. The name on my receipt was Stacey but I'm not sure if she's the manager on duty that I spoke to. Thank you, Kyra Redder. [protected]

For starters that cashier that took my order was not nice when taking my order then when I get to the window and pay I found that she rang my order up incorrectly and when I try to tell her I can't get her attention once I finally do she pulled me forward and when bringing my food out was very rude and threw my food at me and walked away I don't complain much because I work in fast food and I understand sometimes things happen but I will not stand for this and I will no longer be going back to this sonic location

Went through the drive thru at Sonic's in Nags Head, NC on Wednesday October 25, 2017 and ordered a Orange ice cream slush, I was Stunned! As I waited on my order there was a man yelling and cussing at a employee, I could not believe what I was hearing, this was certainly verbal abuse ! I can not believe that a owner talks to crew member's like this! I got my order and asked the employee his name and they said that's the owner his name is Jason and he's always like that. I believe something should certainly be done about this before you have a law suit.

My order took 6 mins after the board said order was on its way. I get my order and then it wasn't made correctly and instead of them making my sandwich over they came and got my sandwich corrected it and steamed it and brought me same sandwich back to me. This is at the Rayville, Louisiana location on October 25, 2017 Time was 9:10am to 9:30am. Poor service

I was in the drive thru yesterday and it took over 28 minutes to get a #11 and a corn dog. I feel this is totally unacceptable but I already paid for it and my son wanted it. I practically waited by window without being told what the hold up was or asked to patiently wait. I was just sitting there without knowledge of what was going on. The line was completely backed up by this point and I was furious.

Store: 393
Total: $9.29
Time of order: 5:52
Date: 10/24/17
Received Order: 6:28

10/24/2017
8:15pm
I went through drive thru and the employee Angel Brown was very rude when she handing my change back and she thru the coins in my hand. She slammed the window in my face. This is very unprofessional and something needs to be done about it. Another employee did see it and I did talk to the On-site manger and she told me that she would take care of it but I think that your personal problems should be left at your home and not brought to your work place.

Last night about 9:00pm I got shakes for my family, a pineapple, a chocolate and a carmel. Within 2 hrs we all got the runs, what the heck do you guys put in your shakes?
I really don't like seeing my family getting sick from your products... it's to bad to because you have ok food...
The one we went to was:
1760 E Pine St, Central Point, OR 97502, We will not get milkshakes there again...
Bob Sowell

I visited the Sonic in Riverside, MO, 2707 NW vivion Rd, at 7:36pm, Oct. 22nd, 2017. I ordered a chili cheese tot and a drink, total was 6.43. The girl at the window was less than cheerful, no greeting, no smile, and then St the end she had the audacity to ask if I wanted my change! Omg! I was so shocked, I still don't know what to think, other than I am severely offended and put off by this employee. The receipt says her name was Brittany. I hope this is not something the Sonic company endorses and this will be handled in a serious and hasty manner. Thank you for your time.

I order me a medium strawberry classic shake, & when I look down there was a dead FLY in my shake. It look disgusting, like it has been sitting cause it was smashed. I even took a picture. Because thats gross. Im usually satisfied and love yalls food but I'm disappointed and grossssssed out. Was the shake premade? Like i dont understand how u can serve people in plain filth.

The manager, Whitney at the Sheridan, Arkansas lication should have been fired a long time ago. She is cheating and taking advantage of her staff, including secondary managers and emoloyees. She is cutting hours and money off thier paychecks, decides to cut money out of thier tips whenever she decided she needs to, won't provide pay stubs to verify the pay rate and hours they should be getting, and she tells these teenagers they are "crew leaders" and will be making $9.50 an hour but never actually gives them the raise. So, you have all these kids thinking they are being paid to take on more responsibility and in reality she is working them like puppets and cheating them all out of money. It's very shady that Sonic doesn't provide it's employees with check stubs of any kind, so the employess can see they are being paid the right rate and hours. This woman will continue to do this as she has for years until someone calls her out and exposes her. She is awful at her job. In every way. Inventory. Scheduling. Hiring. Etc. No, I am not a ex disgrunteled employee either. Never worked thier. However, I live in Sheridan and our Sonic is truly awful and it starts with her. I will keep on exposing her and talking about this Sonic and it's cheating, crooked manager until something is done. Those kids do NOT deserve to be cheated that way.

Good evening,

Today, I went to sonic in chino valley and ordered one large sonic blast with Reece's and one concrete custard snickers and paid $14.11 and gave the waitress a dollar tip.. Luckily, before leaving, I noticed my custard concrete was too thin so we hang to push the red customer service button to asked them to please remake. Unknowingly, the waiter that came out to see what was wrong saw it was the manger and didn't want to remake it by telling me that the machines can't take the thickness. So I told him that I've had the concrete custard before and it was much thicker and he begrudgingly took it to make a new one. Now we have to wait another 15 minutes for our remake while the other is sitting melting, as we were taking them home to eat. So the waitress, who delivered it asked if it was better this time around and it appeared to be so I gave her another $1 tip. We got home and my husband was eating his sonic blast and said that instead of getting the Reece's, he received snickers...problem number 3 now. Three quarters of the way eating it, he said it tasted like custard but in looking at it, it wasn't as yellow as mine, so I figured he was wrong because I know I had the remade custard in my hand. As I ate about half way down, the concrete custard started to get softer and softer but setting up...it wasn't good and had a weird consistency. We decided to fix them together so at least we could finish and get our money's worth. While I was mixing the sonic into the custard, I got to about 1/3 of the way to the bottom when I noticed the bottom was a yellow color and looked like the custard only it wasn't mixed together. So after that, I decided to call the store and ask what they could do to help us. I called and spoke to the manager, Marquees (spelling), the same waiter who tried to tell me that the machine couldn't make it thick so he remembered me too. I explained to him that the sonic blast was made with snickers and not Reece's and my concrete custard was now funky and instead of saying come back and I'll make it right to give good customer service, he became very defensive and argumentative. He kept interrupting to tell me he told me the machines couldn't make it that way and wouldn't let get a sentence out of my mouth to even give a rebuttal until I told him he had a bad attitude and was rude and not giving good customer service. I told him if he kept talking to me with an attitude, I won't be coming back. He then not only didn't resolve this issue, he proceeded to tell me good, don't ever come back here. So now I spent $14.11, let two tips, and two inedible items. So, hence, why I'm contacting the Complaints Dept. I'm in total shock, and is a business owner, I would want to know if one of my managers didn't know how to manage and gives poor customer service. I will never go back there now because first off, both items were made wrong and second off, I was told by the manager to never return. I'm a 51-years-old consumer who can't ever remember being told to never return to an establishment. I am bewildered that this is kind of customer service I was offered. We have been to that location at least ten times and only half the time our order was correct but because they are so close to our house, we still enjoyed stopping, however, I won't be going back there and will just start buying ice cream across the street at Safeway. No hassles there and at least I will get what I paid for. I am attaching a pic so you can see how much is being thrown away, not to mention the fact that they actually made three items and NONE of them were made correctly. Thank you for taking the time to read my complaint. I hope someone notifies the proper people that may want to know that the manger there is unprofessional and not trained properly to be a manager.

So I order these this summer and always got the large. They were my cheat meal when I would get them. Several times I would get them and they would be made just right. Than 2 times they were made horrible with only cookies on the top and sometimes the chocolate was not always mixed through. I would complain and they would offer my money back. I didn't take the money I just told them I wanted made correctly. Each time I went back it was made correctly. One time when I went up and order I said now make sure the cookies go all the way through. The manager got on there and told me that sometimes the cookies at the bottom of the bag where just crumbs and they would use them and you would not promised on what the picture looked like because it was just dressed up and fake the picture they would show you on the sign. Even though some of them where made just like it. Finally the straw that broke the camels back is I went and got another and again no cookies in it and chocolate not all the way through. I once again called ask to speak to manager and this time I did want my money back (each one of these was 7.00 dollars) because I done with going there anymore because they can't be consistent. The woman I spoke to was rude and said that Wendy's always makes her burgers different. They would not give me district manager phone number nor owners phone number (told me owner just picked up his profit checks) Called main customer service line 3 times and still no one has called me back. This company is horrible to there customers and they are way over priced for the food and quality you get. Never again. (Sonic use to be a wonderful place to eat when I was a kid I don't know what happen to it.)

So I pulled up at about 9 no big deal, but the screen went back to if you want to make an order press the red button... So I really don't know if they had my order or not...25 minutes later my order came out and the girl had to put in a special code to complete my order ...i really don't know how much time is allowed for people to wait but 25 minutes is a little long..i could have ordered a steak dinner by then