Sonic Drive In

Being originally from the south, Sonic is (and always has been) my favorite Fast Food. I’ve lived on the east coast long enough to remember when we had Sonic commercials but NO Sonics. It was pure torture. Luckily, the closest Sonic was in Virginia Beach when I lived in DC, and I had a girlfriend that lived there… So I would make weekend treks to VA beach to visit my friend AND get Sonic. lol
So naturally, I’ve eaten a LOT of Sonic in my life. This is the 2^nd best Sonic I have ever eaten at. (First place goes to Old Cantrell Rd in Little Rock. lol)
Not sure why people are complaining about waiting for their food. Sonic is made to order, so obviously its going to take longer than McDonalds that has been sitting under heat lamps for the past 12 hours. I would rather wait for a freshly made REAL hamburger with super crispy and salty tots personally. Even if there is a wait at the drive-​thru, they will send out people to take your money and bring you your drinks while they wait for fries/​tots to cook or whatever. Now that’s service in my opinion! What other fast-​food chain is going to go that extra step?
Obviously a Sonic burger is no Bobby Flay’s… but its definitely a few steps above any other fast-​food and even better than most diners in the area. The tots are always SUPER crispy and piping hot, never soggy. And yeah, they are really salty, but that is what makes them SO GOOD. If you have a problem with sodium you can ask for no salt and they will make them special for you. But don’t expect them to be good that way… lol
the brown bag special is our go-​to. for 8 bucks you get 2 burgers, 2 tots, and 2 medium drinks. you can’t beat that with a stick! lol (i just sounded really southern…)
I order the chili-​cheese coney all the time. It’s really good. However, in the south they have, and will put cole-​slaw on it for you, which is awesome if you’ve never had it that way. It’s not even an option on the menu up here.
The flavored soda’s (vanilla coke is my favorite) are great and not overly sweet. The mango iced-​tea is my favorite, and is best at this location. (The one on Street Rd. is AWFUL. how do you mess up iced-​tea? lol) And we almost always get a Slush to go. Ocean Water is my favorite and they always make it right at this location (again the one on street rd… you never know what they are going to give you. could be blue-​powerade, could be blue coconut. apparently they don’t care as long as it some-​what resembles what you ordered. lol) but this location even asks to make sure they are getting it right. which is nice.
When it comes to the Slushes though, I feel like I should mention… they are PERFECT for making your own daiquiris when you get home. Just add a little rum, or the cherry lime-​ades make pretty amazing margaritas with tequila. lol just wait til you get home to add the booze. no drinking and driving!
and the shakes and ice-​cream treats are always really good. my mom has always been a big fan of their banana split. they have a seasonal apple-​pie shake around the holidays which is incredible. it has actual bits of apple pie in it, lol
so i docked a half-​star each because they don’t have cole-​slaw, which isn’t even their fault lol, and a half-​star because the car-​hops usually forget ketchup. no big deal, we usually go through the drive-​thru anyhow and then park to eat.
love this Sonic in particular though. SO GOOD for fast food.

Sonic in Mt Holly/​Lumberton is great but this one? Service is slow especially the drive in! I went in the drive thru, and it took ten minutes to order and I was still the fourth car in line. The first two cars kept beeping their horns waiting for their food. I finally got out of the line after 15min of waiting and still 2 cars ahead of me.

I love eating at Sonic. The food is typical, but the little kid in me think it’s so cool to order food from your car and have it brought out to you. The funny thing about it is, their food really isn’t all that good! I usually stick to a New York hotdog or a Philly cheesesteak when I eat here. I’ve had also had hamburgers and grilled chicken here. I had a hotdog yesterday.
Their drinks are terrible. They offer a cajillion different kinds of metallic-​tasting flavors you can add to your sodas, slushes and teas, but they all have a bad aftertaste to me. So… why do I come here? it’s fun to eat here. Since I don’t live close to a Sonic, it hasn’t gotten old to me yet. I like Sonic. I wish they would put a menu on the passenger side, though, because only the driver can read the menu! I had to have the menu read to me by my fiancé’, which was kind of annoying.

Can’t go wrong with Sonic. I don’t care how much sodium is in those tots, I LOVE THEM FOREVER!

I’m so sick of watching Sonic commercials In Hawaii and not being able to try their food, so when I visited my uncle in Delanco I definitely wanted to stop by. It was snowy and icy outside so it was nice that we didn’t have to get out of the car. I ordered a Chicago dog meal with tots and a cherry vanilla coke. The dog was pretty good, perfect amount of condiments and I enjoyed the coke… subtle hints of flavors. The tots were too salty and I passed them to my hubby. Took a bite of his burger and it was pretty standard… not mind blowing or anything. I also got a butterfinger chocolate freeze (milkshake like thing) it was yummy but it seemed like they skimped on the butterfinger mix in. Can’t say I’ll be back (since I live in Hawaii) but my curiosity has been satiated.

Tried Sonic for the first time last night. Food was decent and service was very good. My only gripe is that the menu in each parking space is extremely small. My wife couldn’t see a thing from the passenger seat. I had to read her every item. Other then that, not bad. I would go back for seconds.

This is a newer restaurant and has the traditional Sonic food. If you have never eaten here, the selection of food is pretty good. You also do not only have to eat in your car, there is an out door seating area too. The staff is very friendly and the items are fairly priced. Best of all they always have tons of coupons!

Very different experience from a sonic up at home. Lol.
This sonic just opened, the coming soon signs are still up.
The food is OK, typical of any sonic… fried fast food, really good lime drinks. If anything, sonics r worth the stop for lime rickeys n shakes.
Up in NNJ Sonic is known for ridiculous disorganized waits and ppl parking and walking up the highway. Down here there wasn’t so much chaos… in fact there was none. No wait, no crowd.
Service was quick, slight mix up w drinks, but easily fixed in under a minute. Everyone was friendly (also different from nnj lol).
This will be a constant drink stop while were down here for my friends job, its a nice change from McD’s n Dunkin.