Originally Posted By DAR After close to ten years of advertising here in the Milwaukee area, Sonic finally opened up a Drive In here. I was with my family on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 when we decided to give it a try. 90 minutes was the wait time. So we decided to get out and leave. But really 90 minutes?? Is it that good?
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Oh, heck no! Nowhere near that good. Mind you, I like a couple of things on their menu, but it's just fast food.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains We have one a town over... They are tasty - but no they are not 90 min wait worth.
Originally Posted By dshyates I really don't care for their food items. They have great drinks and ice cream treats though. Some of their food is just plain gross. I will eat at Stake and Shake anytime over Sonics.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Have to cross state border... Although if you go with the flow mine is 90 minutes away... Give it a week...
Originally Posted By dshyates WTH, that should be Steak and Shake. But Stake and Shake is an interesting concept.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck We have one here in Emmett, I go occasionally for the food but most often its because the same time I'm going to work they're doing "happy hour" where their drinks are half off. I can get a huge strawberry lemonade slush thing and it lasts me all day almost!!
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer When Papa John's opened here they kept running out of ingredients, now they are doing a typical amount of business.
Originally Posted By utahjosh We have Sonics all over. I avoid them. The food is very, very average. The drinks, however, are quite good. I'm just excited that 2 in-n-out burgers are opening soon withing 30 min of my house!!!!
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer We have the 4th Papa John's in Canada, the 2nd in my province. They located not too far from the University.
Originally Posted By ophellia 90 minutes for Sonic? Not worth it really...in this rural coastal area we get all the ads for the big chains that just don't exsist here...we do have a Subway and thankfully a Papa Johns...
Originally Posted By DAR We've got a few Papa John's here. I'm not that thrilled with their pizza. Actually none of the big chain pizza's are that great. I mean I won't turn it down, it's pizza. But I'd rather support the local joint run by a Guiseppi and his a family.
Originally Posted By rtjl72 sonic is not one of my favorites here. (that's in iowa- it's okay to laugh). the food is sub par. once in awhile on a late summer evening dh and i will pull in and order from the car at one of those little speaker things and have the food brought out. we usually spend the time gazing over at earl may and planning some landscape project. but as was already mentioned- the afternoon drink specials can't be beat! i agree- give it a week. several here in the metro area here have closed up and are up for sale.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb We usually hit the Sonic when visiting family in AZ, but when I lived there I was sick of the place after 3 or 4 times getting their food. It's better than McDonald's but that's about it.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb We got an In N Out 13 years ago and the lines are still long. I doubt the same would be true if we got a Sonic. BUT, I do love Sonic tater tots, In N Out fries, not so much.
Originally Posted By DAR <<too funny dar! is that a real name of a place or just an example? lol!!!>> An example though I wouldn't doubt it. I know there's talk of of more Sonic's opening around here. I imagine they would given the wait. We have Culvers around here which are awesome. And then there's a place called Kopps. Where they serve custard which if you don't know is ice cream with even more fat. It's great. And their burgers are just huge. So Sonic does have it's work cut out for it.
