Their burgers are way above the mark in comparison to the likes of McD, Wendy’s, etc. And the slushes and malts are all pretty damn good.
I hate to tell you this but, they are indeed orgasm worthy. Just imagine tiny cheesecakes where the graham cracker crust is fried to form a crispy shell around the cheesecake morsel. THEN, you dip it in this vile looking red sauce, (it looks like the red goop you fill strawberry pies with, but it taste like HEAVEN. I’ve been known to lick the little container. :o
I agree. I think their ad execs must eat stupid food for breakfast. We’ve been getting their ads for a couple of years now and, according to the Sonic Locator, the closest Sonic to me is 68 miles away in Delaware. I know some people would probably yell, “Road trip!” but I’m not driving 68 miles for a burger and a shake. Or even orgasm-worthy cheesecake things.
I love Sonic. I always get the same thing when I go - bacon, egg, and cheese toaster sandwich, tots, and a chocolate malt. It’s my pre-partying food often. I go there maybe once a month or so. We don’t have Jack n the Box here and Lion’s Choice and Arby’s are further away, so Sonic is where it’s at. I’m a sucker for shitty fast-food breakfast.
Oh man, I love Sonic. I would probably go there to eat dinner tonight, but I got $10 worth of gift certificates to Taco John’s for x-mas.
I like Sonic. Good burgers, good shakes, great onion rings.
Sure, the Sonics are in last place in the Northeast. They don’t ALL suck, though. Ray Allen really has his game back this year, scoring 25+ points a night, and Rashard Lewis is way above his career norms. Granted, the defense is…
What? Oh, crap.
I liked them as a kid, which is the last time I was able to find one in my region—though I still see TV commercials for it, so there’s got to be one or two hidden somewhere in the Bay Area—but that was in the…early Clinton administration, I think, so things may have changed a bit since. Or not. I dunno.
Loved those fish sandwiches.
About the advertising in alien cities… Maybe their purpose is to generate interest among entrepreneurs. If they advertise that heavily, buying a franchise might be a real good investment. Maybe some of you should go see a loan officer. 
My town is so small that we have to drive to the next town to go to Sonic. For better or worse, there are no McDonalds in the county.
Sonic has the best onion rings on the planet. For the most part, their burgers are pretty plain. However, if you can stomach it, the double meat double cheese SuperSonic is delicious. If you add bacon, it’s only 1040 calories.
:drooling smilie:
I am slowly sipping a Sonic Cranberry Slush right now. Sometimes I switch it up and make it a Cranberry Lime Slush, which by the way, would be awesome with some vodka splashed in. I’m so hooked on these that I’ve had to limit myself to one medium a week.
Mmmm. Cranberry. Little bits of ice to crunch on. Heaven.
BZZZZZT!
Wrong answer!
While there is Papa John’s within ten miles in the suburbs, there is at least ONE Long John Silvers in Boston, on what was Rt1, just over the Dedham line.
Doing my bit to fight ignorance…
P.S. the nearest Red Lobster is in Manchester, CT, about 135 minutes to the southwest.
Gary Payton and Nate McMillan were pretty good.
What? 
(thats what I was thinking when I opened the thread…)
Sonic is making a move towards going national. Same store sales there are about 2% which aren’t really going to do a hell of a lot for the stockholders. So they need to expand out of what are pretty saturated markets in the southern US.
Imagine if Sonic showed up one day in town, said “We’re here” and threw the doors open. Who would stop by some random burger joint that they have never heard of? Would anyone know that they have slushies, malts and cheesecake bites. As a result they are buying national advertising to build up a brand image before they even move in.
Did it work? Right here are a bunch of people from areas where there is no Sonic talking about their company and wondering why they advertise in those areas. There are probably a lot of non-Dopers wondering the same thing. I’ll bet a few of those folks actually show up when a Sonic does open and buy a burger or a slushie to find out what this place is all about.
Pretty stupid huh?
Here in Indianapolis, there were a couple of Sonics – they bought the Dog n’ Suds stores. They aren’t here anymore. I tried them once and didn’t think they were all that . . . their limeade slush was ok, but nothing else thrilled. They have since closed down the stores around here. I don’t miss them.
You must have just had the rotten luck of going to a bad one, my friend. Most Sonic’s I’ve been to are fairly good food and certainly better then the standard Burger King or McDonalds fare.
The drinks are fantastic but the food is entirely unremarkable.
Eh, they just need a creepy-ass mascot to ride a meme into people’s brains. That always seems to work, even if people don’t want it to.
I’ve been to Sonic twice, once in St. Louis where we had breakfast, and once somewhere along I-5 between Redding and Sacramento where we had supper. I hated it both times. The malt tasted funny, the burger was sort of dry and made me feel ill, and the toaster sandwich thing I had in St. Louis was so bad I couldn’t even finish it.
I understand what you’re saying, and if they’re going to open back up around here, then yippee, but it’s not like we’ve never had a Sonic. No, they *used *to be here. They left about 7 years ago. The closest one now is, I’m not making this up, 137.04 miles away in Champaign. And these ads have been “building awareness” for years and years now. Yes, you’re probably right that they’re trying to manufacture a Krispy Kremelike Kult, but it’s an ungodly way to go about it. Maybe they should spend those millions of dollars improving their hamburgers?