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Sonic Drive-In earns a 1.3-star rating from 5 reviews and 1816 complaints, indicating that most fast food enthusiasts are dissatisfied with dining experience.

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5:38 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In coney footlong buns

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Jessica Glover and I live in Frisco, TX and I just visited the Sonic off of 420 N Custer Road, McKinney TX 75071; [protected].; Brandon took my order. Today Is October 1, 2017 and I was there at 4:13pm. I have never had a bad experience with Sonic until today. Yearly at home I will make foot long chili dogs and I will go to Sonic and buy the Coney foot long buns. Brandon was very nice and tried to help me. He asked the manager on duty about my request to buy buns. He was advised by the manager on duty they do not sell the buns separate. I advised them I have always been able to buy buns at other Sonic locations. I was told by Brandon per his manager to go to the other Sonic and get buns.

I am going to be totally honest, this made me very mad. Why do I need to drive all over DFW to buy buns? I work for a large Corporation and customer centricity is number one! This location including the manger should take a course on how to be more customer centric. However, I understand Sonic is not a retail grocery store, but in the past I have never had any issues purchasing foot long buns from Sonic.

I would not be so upset if I wasn't told to go to another Sonic. I personally think anyone being told this would be very agitated by that comment. The manger needs more training on how to handle simple requests.

All they had to do was sell me the buns or leave out the comment go to another Sonic. I will not be going back to that location. I will find "another Sonic".

Response would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Jessica Glover
[protected]@gmail.com

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1:18 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In service and food

I have been quiet long enough. I am a person who gives our small community chances with businesses but this is my last straw. I have been going to our sonic a very long time. Recently (last year or 2) it has changed managers. Previous management was strong and reliable. Current...not so much. Have waited in drive thru for 15min. The car stalls are horrible to try and order. I have waited at a stall for 5-10min for someone to answer the call button on more than one occasion. I have plain left on more than one occasion bc I was tired of waiting for someone to answer the dang call. Last night I had it... i ordered a Mini Reeses Blast, no whip, extra Reeses. It came out in a somewhat timely manner WITH whip cream and [censor] Oreos on it. She admitted her mistake of Oreos on too but Reeses in the blast. I said ok but it wasn't suppose to have whip on it either. But whatever...I'll live. Does it have extra reese?...yes ma'am. I should have sent it back yes but it was 9:30 at night I was tired and wanted to get home. Got home put it in a bowl...there may have been traces of Reeses. This isn't the first time I have asked for extra Reeses and paid for them and it was not extra. The service here is horrible. I have seen a local pizza place deliver pizza in the back door during lunch hour.
Please help this sonic. We are currently on our way to a new Sonic 20min away bc we would rather get good service...

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11:26 pm UTC

Sonic Drive-In product / on sale food items

I have been a customer of the Sonic Drive in in Bonham, Texas for a long time.. On this months special... Cheeseburger and Hand Made Onions Rings.. Each and every time I went to this location during the week while this Food Special was going on... They Advise that They Were "Out of Onions Rings".. This is their monthly Special ... How can they run out of Onions Rings all week long when they have Managers and many workers working at the time... VERY DISAPPOINTING !

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9:25 am UTC

Sonic Drive-In service and product

My family and I have been sonic fans for years. Till this morning... The service was extremely rude, from the time we ordered from the screen right down to the food delivery. She was inpatient snotty and cut me off after each item ordered with "is that all?". She then was angered by me having to remind her for the water we ordered as well. The food was terrible. Cold, crusty old tortillas on all the burritos. Frankly the only item that was good happen to be the blueberry shake. I would like to be reimbursed for our purchase we placed today with sonic.
Please E-mail our refund to
[protected]@gmail.com

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Thank you

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9:23 am UTC

Sonic Drive-In sloooow service & wrong order

Seems to be a pattern at Sonic at 1249 Gause Blvd, Slidell, LA

Very Poor Time Management!

Are they understaffed?

I sat in drive-through line this morning for 20-25 mins with 4 cars ahead of me. I placed my order for two super sonic burritos and was asked to drive forward. Drive forward? To where? The lane was clogged with 4 cars--also not moving. There was no moving forward. When I finally got to window there seemed to be very little staff and not understanding customers were waiting on them for an unacceptable time.

To make matters worse, I DID NOT receive what I ordered and paid for AND I was late for work.

A VERY bad experience. Hope this gets resolved.

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7:45 pm UTC

Sonic Drive-In banana split

Tonight I went to my local Sonic drive-in and ordered a banana split. When I finally got it the ice cream was melted and the bananas where rotten! Not just brown I mean completely black and tasted terrible. This is the third time I have gotten rotten bananas at our sonic! Also while I was ordering the lady cut me of three times and I had to hit the button again! I keep saying I'm not eating there again and this time I mean it! The service is ridiculous and when you get the order it's always wrong! I will also tell all my family and friends about my experience at Sonic in Livingston AL 35470!

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7:22 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In assistant manager

We've been waiting at the Sonic drive in on 3035 TPC Pkwy, San Antonio Texas 78259 for over 30 minutes for our order that was paid with our debit card. An order finally came out for the vehicle next to us and we noticed the customer opened the order and put her hands all in it when they themselves realized it was the wrong order. The bar hop Mark returned the order only to bring back the exact same one the customer had her hands in and tried serving it to us. When we told Mark we did not want that order he specified it would be at least another 20 minute wait so we got off to speak with the manager and get a refund. As we approached the door we noticed Mark telling Maddie the asst. Manager the situation and clearly stated "tell that mother [censor]er he will have to wait for his order"! My husband is a 26 year retired military veteran and does not deserve to be treated nor talked to that way. We asked to speak to the actual manager who which by then Maddie had on the phone and stated she was dealing with disgruntle customers and the manager refused to speak to us. The ordeal escalated when Maddie denied the whole conversation or comment that several people heard including the carhop Mark. She began to yell at my husband which no person in a management position should do especially when they are the cause of the issue. Maddie has no management skills whatsoever and again to be disrespectful and curse is way out of line. The lines at the drive through were massive and people were leaving due to poor customer service. Our family will never return to this sonic. Sadly our family loves sonic but we will find another one to go to from here on out. Again Maddie needs NOT be a manager.

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3:43 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In unethical behavior towards customers

I went to sonic to get a deluxe cheeseburger w/bacon. got it back without bacon. I sent it back in to get bacon. when I got back to my office. i realized there was a hair on it. I had to go back and ask for a whole new one since I had already paid for it. I told the clerk the situation and she just said OK send it back and didn't even apologize. I got the burger back and the bun was stale and burnt on the underside. the burger was half the size of the bottom bun and the cheese was cold as can be. I would like a refund of my money and to let the company know that I will never go back there again. and neither will my family. they have just lost long time customers because employees there do not have the decency to deal with this. I also have pictures of the 2nd burger sent out to me. I hope I dont get sick from this because I will let you know

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1:09 am UTC
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Sonic Drive-In hostile work environment

It's a paying job $7.25 plus tips. The company itself is good to work for and the owner really does seem to care. The location is pretty busy. There are some employees that genuinely do care but don't get treated fairly at all. There are some of the guys that work in the kitchen and some of my fellow carhops that work hard. There is also an assistant manager that came in from another store that has some awesome ways to make things so much easier on her shifts but keeps getting stopped from doing them. She is always fixing things and cleaning and trying to teach people the sonic way and trying make the place better. She even shows the manager what she has learned on the new computer system. She goes out of her way to help everyone even the ones that she knows are against her and trying to get her fired. Hopefully one day she will the store manager and then this place will be so much better if she doesn't quit from the bullying first. I hope i work more shifts with her because she's so smart and maybe i can learn more from her. Thank you [name removed]!
General manager only cares about going dr. Pepper games, no accountability or repercussions for employees from almost all of management, employees going in and out disappearing from positions on the clock, verbal abuse from the general manager constantly, i've even heard him say out loud in from of a whole lunch shift crew that an assistant "sucks" and he can't wait to come back after dr. Pepper games and fire her, he tells you to do something then yell at you for doing it, he makes you feel like nothing you do is good enough, doesn't acknowledge any extra effort and points out every mistake with certain people, he doesn't even do his job cause he expectsthe other managers to just do it for him, he yells and hits equipment when he is mad, store is so nasty and needing repair that the inside smells make you want to puke, black mold and water in the ceiling, manager is a hoarder has two sheds full of stuff to the ceiling just thrown in there, no organization, no required training or e-learning, no communication, schedules are copy and pasted so we run short handed when we need people and too many when we don't, the gms kids are bratty and nosey and do whatever they want, favoritism double standards huge issue, good employees getting burned out, just horrible morale and attitudes overall, fake and sneaky management, people always on their cell phones, worst sonic of the two i have worked at and worst i've ever visited in my life, i have never hated and been so miserable coming to work. Do not come to the sonic on monroe highway in pineville, la if [name removed] is still the manager he does not know how to operate a business! He only cares about how people outside of the store see him and the perception of the store not what it really is!

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1:58 pm UTC

Sonic Drive-In food not right and then management promising something and then not following through with it

This store in Zebulon messed up my order on 4 different occasions and they made it right until this last time. I ordered my usual Jr Cheeseburger deluxe with only mayonnaise and a small order of fries. I visit this place at least 4 times a week and order the same thing. Last night, I placed my order and the person taking the order read it back but said the burger was regular. I repeated that it was supposed to have only mayo on it and he said yeah. I then paid for my order and when I got home, it had everything on it. I called and spoke to the man that was the manager on duty and he was very nice and apologetic and offered to refund and replace the order. It was only 3.12 but he offered to do both. Today, when I went to get the correct order, they treated me like I was lying. The man last night said he wrote it down, he took my name last night. I don't even think they looked for it. They did fix my food but refused to give me my refund that he promised. I know it is only 3.12, but is the principle of it. So, I took the food home and told that girl that was at the window to just keep the refund but I wouldn't be back. So, in short, you have lost a customer that visits this restaurant at least 4 times a week. I know I am just one person and it might not matter, but was very disappointing.

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11:13 am UTC

Sonic Drive-In customer service and the food

On Sunday Sept. 24, 2917 my partner and I went to the Sonic on State Rd. 436 in Orlando. I got the Car-Hop Classic with onion rings and a small coke. My partner ordered a hamburger fries and a Dr. Pepper. The food came and the guy never offered to sit the tray on the window as customary.We received the food in a paper bag handed through the window. there was no ketchup and the burgers were wrong. The burgers were taken back and when we received the replaced ones, they were horrible. I ate three bites and threw it back in the bag. The onion rings tasted like the batter had sugar in it, another horrible. I'm from Tullahoma, Tn. and had been eating at the Sonic there for 10 years before moving to Florida. Everyone in Tullahoma goes to the Sonic. The food is great and the service is great. The manager in the Florida store doesn't care about this store or there would be changes. I'll never go back to that Sonic again.

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3:40 am UTC

Sonic Drive-In worker's credibility

I brought my family to sonic and went through the drive-thru around 10 or 11 Friday night, and as we got to the front of the line and the attendant opened the window, the unpleasant smell of weed strongly reeked from the building. The smell honestly made me feel sick, and I feel that employees shouldn't be smoking on duty. I won't be coming back if this is the way the store operates.

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1:29 pm UTC

Sonic Drive-In customer service

I had placed my order at the menu speaker and the guy taking the order even read it back to me, but once I didn't receive what I had ordered the girl at the window said yes what else did you need so I told her the rest of my order and so she said that the guy that took my order said that was what I had ordered but it wasn't made right. So I just left after I had already paid for everything and still didn't receive everything that I had ordered. I'm unhappy with the service instead of asking me if they could fix the order all the girl wanted to do was argue that that was all I had ordered. Due to the unprofessional people there I'm not stopping there no more for food.

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9:35 am UTC

Sonic Drive-In service

Person taking my order hung up and I wasn't even done placing my order, she was very rude. I had to call back in to order drinks then she left one off. The carhop didn't bring out either drink then she came out with only one because the other didn't get rang up so the manager had to come out, and she explained the girl taking my order was upset because someone called out. How is that my issue and why is that being taken out on me? I'm at this sonic daily sometimes 2 times daily but I keep having stupid issues but if I have any more issues I won't be back.

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9:11 am UTC
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Sonic Drive-In carhop

My mother and I have been daily customers of sonic for years. About a week ago Elizabeth White came to carhop our car. Personal issues made me calmly back out and leave. I refused her to serve me. As im backing out she yells profanties with my infant and 62 mom in car. She is very good friends with Cindy Foster the manager and Cindys daughter Mary. We have to drive across town to the other Sonic to avoid dealing with any drama. U lost 2 daily customers becuz of this. I reported the incident to the other Sonic and the ex manager of Pauls Valley... Robert. Not to mention she picks her skin constantly and I sure do not want to be served by someone that picks their skin and calls me vulgar names.

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5:08 pm UTC

Sonic Drive-In I literally waited 20 minutes on a meal!

I sat in the parking lot literally 20 minutes ! So I finally decided to press the button again to ask them what was the hold! She states, 'You placed an order'! Really? I have been in restaurant management over 20 plus years and never seen nothing like this before! Very unprofessional! Saw workers inside laughing and giggling! Carhops can't skate. Pure ridiculous! Really need some attention at this Sonic or can truly see why your business is not making the profit it probably should be doing. I will never return at least to this one again but the only way you will know if someone let you know.

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4:47 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In service

I went to order a RT 44 diet Dr Pepper and a RT 44 cup of ice. I arrived at 3:10. And at 3:45 I still not have my drink. So I pushed the button and was told my order was on the way out. At 3:53 I still did not have my order so I drove off. I know I went at the busiest time but 45 mins is outrageous! I am a frequent customer and will have to think twice about going again.

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6:53 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In screwed up my order

I orderd a bacon egg n cheese toaster I received [censor] burger on toast with ketchup lettuce tomatoes onions I don't like non of that [censor] on top of it there was a freaking onion ring on it like where the hell was my bacon n egg? Employees must not give a [censor] or theee high outta of there [censor] I used to like sonic but I will never go back after this [censor] I don't even no what I received

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Sonic Drive-In store manager shelsy/drive thru

So I go to sonic every day to get a drink I bought food before and I bought gallons of water witch I bought 20 gallons of water and I have receipt for free 44 drink so I hold the receipt to do the survey later and come back and get the drink the store manager told Tanya another manager that I'm not allow to come back to sonic when I have never ever done nothing to no one or disrespect no one in the store so now I want to know the reason why I can't come back to sonic auburndale I start it crying yesterday do to I call the 800 number so I guess the 800 number went and told the store manager 33823 that they.not allow to give me the drink after I do my survey till I buy something again what the problem is I don't know but I told store manager yesterday after she told me all kind of crazy stuff that I will have to call the ceo if I have to because I have done nothing wrong to sonic I have never disrespect no one I was about to be on my way to sonic to buy 40 gallons of water to send to Puerto Rico to my family I was taking 40 gallons of water to Tampa where they taking the donations I'll go somewhere else I thought about sonic because Emily and crystall they are awesome I thought the store manager was to I don't understand the issue but I do need someone to call me asap thank u so much

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12:29 pm UTC
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Sonic Drive-In restroom

I was shocked by the condition of the restroom; then, understood why when I noticed the "Clean Restroom Verification Form" was for August and that it hadn't been completed since August 19th at Close.

I apologize for the delay in sending this note. I was in Tyler with my Father how has complications of his Diabetes. Nevertheless, I thought you much want to know the condition of your location at 600 Hwy 31 E, Chandler, TX 75758

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About Sonic Drive-In

Sonic Drive-In is a fast-food chain known for its drive-in format and carhop service. Customers can order from a variety of burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches, alongside signature slushes, milkshakes, and sides. The menu also includes breakfast items. Sonic emphasizes quick service and a nostalgic dining experience.
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