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Sonic Drive-In service

i am or should say was a regular custermer.. 2 times a day friday sat
and sunday.. and everyday throughout the week, on the way home.. they never get my drink right ..i all ways ask for lite ice 6 times in a row i have sent the drink back to much ice... that sonic has lost my bessness..average of 10 plus dallors every time thats over a hundered every week.. hate to not stop there because its close to home.. they refuse to get my order right i have no problem stopping eles where.. wendys just down the street has no problem with lite ice, or mcdonalds etc... keith hatton
[protected] or [protected]@gmail.com

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Jul 31, 2017 12:09 am EDT

my drink.. i am a regular custermer..i send over a hundered dallors a week.. it is close to my home.. because this sonic never does as i ask for light ice.. and i have sent yhe last 6 drinks back ...
this sonic will not have my bessness anymore.. other fast food places will have no problem when someone askes for lite or no ice.. thats sad. [protected]
or ... keithhatton073163@gmail.com

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7:40 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In unethical behaviour

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Sonic is downright shameful!
Is this how Sonic teaches young folks to post when they are "bored?" This person needs to rethink what he says on Facebook where thousands of young people see and take from a lot of things they see and read. I have blocked this from my facebook. I am a Christian and up until now have always supported Sonic Drive-In. This is just ludicrous. If he is this bored maybe you ought to let him have a permanent vacation or at least retrain this individual and the others that have decided to make their comments read and seen by others. I hope you get this type of thing resolved. My church members and our young people will seek to go elsewhere. I honestly hope this young man learns from his awful comment to be seen by millions of people.
Thank you for your time.
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5:58 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In service/lack of service.

I was at my local Sonic this afternoon (Howell, NJ). My family and I have been there many, many times. After today, I will probably not be going back. I pulled up to the drive thru, the car of me sat there for 10 minutes with no help so I went to a box instead. Only 2 other cars in boxes. Took 5 minutes for a response to pressing button. I ordered 4 shakes and a hot dog. After 20 minutes, I pressed button again. I asked about my order. I got a really nasty response from your employee. She said, " You gotta wait. We are very short handed and I can't get to you yet!" I told her to cancel my order that I needed to leave. Next time my family wants shakes, there is a Chick-fil-a a half mile down the road.

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11:24 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In former employee

Hi, I am a former worker of Sonic and I have had a very repulsive, unprofessional, and emotionally distressing work experience. It all started yesterday, when I arrived to work I was meet with no working boxes, I told a manager several times but no one gave me any help. I then proceed to continue working when an in and out signal. I then got a call from a stall event though I was working at drive thou. I did not understand proceed to tell a manager when I then had a in and out reception of the person. The manager told to me go out and take the order face to face even though I was only suppose to be on drive n thou. I then went out to tell the woman that the box disconnected and if I could help her. She then went to tell me that someone had cursed at her, and that it was me. I told her that the boxes were not working that could not have been possible since I was unable to hear her in any way, shape, or form as my box was not working, which why I came out to take her order. The manager gives me another box and tells me to go on drive thou again. In this situation, I was yet again unable to hear or have any connection with anyone. I was then pulled aside and abruptly taken off box. A few minutes later, I was on break. I then went to sit outside to be talked to by a manager to tell me that I was taken off box because of a complaint by a customer that an employee used cursed while being in connection with her. She said that the exact sentence was, "what the hell". Something I infect had not said or would have been able to say as I was not even in full connection with the woman. She then told me that a lot of wrong orders came in and that they were my fault since I worked on drive thou. I then told her that the boxes were unresponsive and often in and out, something that I had made her aware of. She told me she knew and that it was there fault and that she would try to fix it. The manager, Rush, then told me that I could leave. The next day I arrived to a completely rude and emotionally hurting work place. Rush, the manager, was so rude with me the whole day to the point where I physically could not breathe.She could so much emotional distress that I suffered from a fully panic attack once leaving work. She used every thing I did to single me out and bully me. She first commented on my uniform saying I did not have a hat, when I was not provided with one. She commented on me not calling out orders, when I infect had been until she told me I was too loud and to stop. She made me leave a busy drive thou order station to pour milk into the milkshake machine, and then proceed to yell at me for making a mess as I was trying to take an order. She yelled at me for not making drinks fast enough when told me to make drinks and take orders and told employees not help me when there over six cars at the drive thou. She screamed at me for trying to add sprinkles to ice cone, being a new employee I was unaware that there were not sprinkles. She screamed at me for taking an order and trying to add cheese, stating there was no smoked cheese, when I infect made a mistake and told her the woman just wanted cheese of any kind. They kept me to 11:30 and when I told the manager I had to leave as my only form of transportation was here. He yelled at me for leaving. I have had the worst work experience. The employees, especially the managers, are completely unprofessional and have cause me great distressed and have triggered me to have a fully panic attack twice in one day. My resolution would be to have my check infect mailed to my house so I no longer have to be in contact with anyone from that restaurant. The restaurant is also completely dirty as there are flies everywhere and they go into the ice sometimes. The manager sticks his hand into the communal ice for the drinks and no one wear a hair net or gloves of any sort.

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Jul 29, 2017 11:30 pm EDT

Skibo road fayetteville, NC sonic

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Sonic Drive-In onion rings

I went to sonic(3308 N Main, Roswell NM)and purchased Combo Meal(this was take-out). When I got home I could not believe what I saw. My onion rings were hard as hell and burnt. How could you allow your service workers to sell such disgusting food. I also am a manager of Taco Bell here in Roswell, NM and this type of service is highly prohibited. We the people work hard for our money and expect to get high quality food!

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8:09 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In chicken sandwich and fries.

My chicken sandwhich is soggy and old and tastes burnt. And it is also not how I asked them to dress it. The fries are cold and soggy. Also half burnt. The person who took my order was short and rude. I asked for ketchup and did not receive it. Very dissatisfied. I eat at sonic at a minimum of four times a week and I have never gotten this quality of food.

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11:20 am EDT

Sonic Drive-In service

The last two times I have been to this sonic service has been horrible. ( 901 SW grand BLVD in OKC) ( near Integris SW medical center) Both times were in the evening around 7pm. I went through the drive through the first visit and was behind a lady that prob sat there a good 3-5inutes before anyone answered her on the intercom, so I decided to pull into a stall. I ordered two kids corn dog meals and waited a good 10 min before we received our food, at which the carhop brought the wrong food the first time and when we got the food the corn dogs were burnt. The last time I went was yesterday and there were no cars in the drive through or the stalls and there were 4 people sitting outside on the table ; of which all looked to be in uniform. When I pulled up to the drive through I sat there for a good 5 min at which no one ever answered on the intercom. I ended up just leaving and going somewhere else and still saw all four people sitting at the table when I drive off. I take my kids by there after I get off work to eat or get something to drink quite often but am disappointed with the service. Have never had an issue with any other sonic before . Just thought I would let you know to help fix the problem.

Thank you

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9:26 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In sonic customer service on page on st. louis, mo

I have recently visited the sonic on page in St. Louis, Mo twice and both times I myself or people in front of me have waited in the drive thru for at least 10 minutes or more. No one ever comes on over the intercom even after people have been honking and we can see that there are people in there working. I have driven to order at the car side stations after waiting in the drive thru and after pressing the button still no one comes. The workers were standing outside and chatting with friends. Others were just staring out the window on both occasions at cars that had driven through the lot multiple times wondering what's going on. Another worker pulled a chair from outside to the inside so she could sit down. It's been a bit ridiculous and because of that you guys have lost my business twice. I love sonic, but I probably won't be visiting this one again.

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7:04 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In customer service

I was at the sonic drive-in in clarksville, tn on dover crossing. I drove up to the intercom and no one came on. I waited 2 minutes. Finally someone said, "Ill be with you in a moment." I thought that was fine but I waited another 3 or 4 minutes. When she came back on the intercom she was laughing and said, "sorry about that." I asked for a chocolate chip shake for my son and she said quite abruptly and without apology, "we're not serving anymore ice cream today." More laughing... No explanation. This was about 3:00 p.m. on the 26th of July. It seemed to me to be a case of not liking my Trump bumper sticker. Now, I can complain further and to the newspapers or you can help me sort out this situation and find out what was really going on. There was no explanation as to why they weren't serving ice cream. It's up to you. My number is [protected]. Ask for Janet...much thanks

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12:16 am EDT

Sonic Drive-In roaches and ants

The Sonic in Rosenberg, TX, in Brazos Town Center area severely needs an exterminator. For instance, when you pull up to the drive-thru window, as I did today, July 26, 2017, you're greeted by a smashed roach and a ton of scurrying ants of some variety, all virtually right next to the window. Very disgusting and not at all appetizing. Some people in my neighborhood, which is fairly near to this Sonic, also complained about this same thing on our NextDoor page. They were urging people not to go there anymore because of all the bugs. So word is getting out there. I would think hiring an exterminator would be cheaper than a ton of lost customers. By comparison, the drive-thru of Carl's Jr., which is right next to this Sonic, had zero bug issues. So, Sonic, clean it up, please! It can't be that hard.

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8:07 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In drive thru

I pulled up to sonic restaurant off ridge wood in holly hill Florida. I chose this one because the sonic in south Daytona off ridgewood had young teens working who messed up our order and were chit chatting while we were trying to order. I pull into a drive in spot around 8:35pm. I press the button to order and wait close to a minute. Without pressing the number again, a young black girl comes through saying, "order when you're ready" like she had little patience. I said, "ok? I'll have a brownie cookie dough Minnie." She replied "all right?" With some more attitude and it went silent until I had to speak up and say "ok that's it, thanks" and she replied with a huff and puff "ok?!" I then stated she is "rude as [censor] and I don't want to buy from her." She then said "I can't have my order taken." I have over 10 years of customer service industry experience and have the worst, most rude service at fast food restaurants. This is the first time I've took the time to write a complaint because I'm sick of it. I truly wish I could act like a child with not even an inflection of their voice let alone a greeting of "hi, how are you?", and still get a paycheck at the end of the day. She probably won't get reprimanded but I'm speaking up on [censor] situation which in this industry needs to be fixed. Thank you.

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8:29 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In former employee

I recently got a job at the Sonic on parker road in Jonesboro, Ar for a 2nd job on the side. I have had the job for 4 days and quit today because the place is so disgusting and unprofessional. Nobody uses gloves nor washes their hands. Everyone eats the food while preparing orders. There are flies everywhere that land on the fried products and veggies/cheese. Most (not all) of the employees throw food at each other, are flat out rude and very unprofessional. There was even a roach crawling on the ground. I could not work there another day. If there was a random health inspector to show up they would more than likely shut the place down.

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6:54 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In I am complaining about the service I received as a paying frequent customer

First let me start by saying I love Sonic I go to my local Sonic at least 3 times a week every week. The past two trips to Sonic has been disappointing. The first trip which was Friday 7/21 I ordered 3 slushes (not during happy hour) 1 mini size, 1 route 44 size, and 1 Medium size. Once I got home I realized I received 2 small slushes and not the medium I paid for. This has happened in the past more than once. Today I went to Sonic and ordered 4 slushes and food. I asked for the onion rings monzarella sticks and chedder and peppers to be made fresh out the oil. When the car hop brung the food 2 of the slushes were flowing over spilling down the cup. Which is very tacky. And the food was not even hot more like luke warm. I asked the hop could she clean the cups that were overflowing and she responded saying there are napkins in the bag. What? are you serious? okay bad customer service no doubt.

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6:03 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In horrible immature and disgusting staff

Absolutely horrible service, delinquent teen workers who lack the basic intelligence to get a simple task done within even the most reasonable amount of time. When politely corrected when the order was received wrong they start back talking and mocking the costumer. Takes 7 minutes to get a simple drink while you can see that they are all playing on cell phones and toying around. Absolutely will no longer use this disgusting location ever again. I would not be surprised if the location has a rodent/ vermin problem based on how the staff obviously maintains themselves.

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Sonic Drive-In app/menu board

Great app and menu board but employees can not hear when taking the orders. Since the new boards went up this has happened every time. I hear the same issue — to repeat order — from cars next to and around me. Today my order was taken wrong because of this and I had to place part of the order again. Repeating orders is s pet peeve of mine 😡😡 order takers seem to have attitudes — maybe this is why!?

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6:28 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In general manager

this general manager is very unprofessional, he is paying his employees some under age, cash under the table to come in on their days off to work, or telling them they must not want their job because they wont come in on their day off. that's like telling someone they will be fired for not coming in. he is constantly calling employees to talk about other employees. this man has been in trouble with previous stores he has worked at. they must not have done a very good back ground check on him. there is no law that says you cant be rude but he is very rude to some of his employees, and treats them differently even though they work as hard as everyone else. my niece works for him and this has just gotten ridiculous

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8:15 am EDT

Sonic Drive-In carhop buying selling and using drugs

I was in the process of ordering my food when I caught the glimpse of a sonic carhop pay another woman in a sonic t-shirt fr what appeared to be a baggie with a green substance. The carhop who was allegedly buying weed proceeded to go to her car. After sitting in her car emerged from her vehical and lit up what looked like a self rolled cig. Appearances are deceiving as the smell that iminated from the area was that of weed. This is unbelievable while. I take my childern here. The carhop name was Joleen.

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6:39 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In length of time to receive order

I am a loyal patron of your business and feel I have helped a couple of kids finance college. I always tip. My dog is named sonic because a new location opened up in boyd, tx on his adoption day. All that is to say i've seen days when the servers are over run because all the stalls were full and sometimes even waiting for a parking space and have received my order in at most in 10 minutes. On that wait I was give token for free drink. Today I ordered a lg peach yes with extra ice and med. Popcorn chicken at 5:11 pm. St #3051 location in tulsa, ok. There were 9 stalls full. I could see that there were at least two servers and another came on near the end of my visit. At 5:20 I called to be sure order was not lost. They said it was because of popcorn chicken. I received my order at 5:35pm with apology. No offer of discount or free drink. It was 98degrees and my truck doesn't idle well. I turned it off at 5 min and rolled windows down. I feel they were understaffed or someone was talking instead of serving. Whatever the reason service was below what normally is great service. This has happened at least twice if not three times at almost the same time (I get off work and drive there). I really love telling people about your products but this kind of service could hurt your reputation. Just wanted to alert you. I'm a fan forever but your bottom line could suffer as there were 9 people waiting also.

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Sonic Drive-In I had bad service

On July 19th 2017 around 9pm my husband and I along with my child went to your sonic in Palatka, FL to get a sonic blast. Ee pulled up to the drive thru where the service started badly. My husband order a prescel dog and employee just took the order and ignored us. So my husband drove up to the curb side and ordeted. We ordered a prescel dog, orso blast and a m m blast. When our order was finished a gentleman came out and only handed my husdand the precel dog and left. We saw a young black female that had a sonic uniform on and we asked her if she can find out where the rest on our order was and she got the nastiest attitude with us. We asked to speak to a manager and no one came out. I walked up to the window and the black female was screaming at the managet. The gentleman that served us came out and wanted to know what needed. I told him I wanted a manager and a refund. The managet came out and as he was coming the black female was still yelling. The manager came out and I explained the problem and he asked who the employee was that I had the problem with and he proceeded to provide me with my refund.

I am a manager at a retail department store and with that type of service and attitude will makr my business loose business. As for the employee attitude to the customer and screaminh at the manager she would have lost her job.

Thank you and I will no long be go to sonic with that type service. That is not customer service. Have a great day.

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9:28 pm EDT

Sonic Drive-In custard concrete

Went today for national hot dog day. Dinner was fair. Happened to notice customer two stalls down wasnt happy. That male customer just tossed his food right out the window onto the ground once the hopper left back inside the store. After dinner my wife and I ordered a Custard concrete and waffle cone. The custard concete was gummy textured and a WHOLE lot of POWDER. It was awful. Luck behold I'd go and order a large one at that. Some for tonight, other half for tomorrow. It was a cup of junk. Never care to go back to sonic. DQ will have to be the ice cream crave place to go to again. Try sonic for first time in a long time, now realizing why such a very long gap in between for visits to Sonic. Call to get refund on over half filled cup of goo. Instead they want to remake another cup of goo for me again.I don't think so, I'll take my loss.

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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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Sonic Drive-In reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Aug 18, 2006. The latest review Chilly pie was posted on Jun 3, 2025. The latest complaint My manager is very unprofessional was resolved on Apr 27, 2025. Sonic Drive-In has an average consumer rating of 1 stars from 1811 reviews. Sonic Drive-In has resolved 123 complaints.
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