Sonic Drive-In

What’s not to like… maybe the price is a little too high…
Old fashioned stay in your car and order/​pay. Meal is brought to you…5 stars.
food: 5 – 6 different kinds of hot dogs… shakes…malts…fries. The chicago dogs were decent not like one of the famous places in Chicago but not bad either. The Chili dog was okay. The American was good. The coney island was good. The fries okay. The malt needed more malt. 3 stars
Service: pretty good (with a smile) 4 stars
Price: maybe a 3.5 Stars.
I’m around a 3.5 stars for here. Will put down a 3 and go back again.

It has been a while I actually give 1 star on the review. This is my first time here and we don’t have good impression but bad experience.
We have coupon that allow us to buy one master Peanutty Swirl and get one free. We like to experience the 1960 roller skate window serving like the movie. The experience turn out not worthy for the food.
We arrive at Sonic and park on the station of order. The button has been push to call for order but no one has response. I have my engine on and they only have one car on drive thought and one car on station. I can see a lot of the sonic people in the building but none has come out to take order. We turn off the engine and waited for a while. Florida summer is hot even with the window down. We decided use the drive through. The drive through is responded faster than the station parking. We put our order with buy one gets one free. The total come to $ 8.98 and the discount is $ 3.59. We told them the incorrect total and ask why the discount is not half. The coupon clearly state BOGO buy one get one free but they only give you 40% discount. The swirl was given to us but spoon was not given to us while we were disagreed with the final total.
Manager came out and said this is the price. I told my wife it is not worth to argue since the gas spend on waiting for the price correction is already paid for it. Spoon was finally given to us and we drove away.
If you look at the food they are like ordinary fast food. Mc Donald has enclosed AC space and why I have to wait in hot weather and eat in my car or spent the gas money to be cool and eat in the car. Doesn’t make sense. The concept may be work on 60’s but not with AC generation.
Overall coupon is not fully honor, not an AC dining, server stay in building cool themselves and ask the customer to wait, food is not the best or healthy in fast food, bad attitude server, wrong accounting, poor management. I am sadly given the one star.

Despite being really busy, Edward the Assistant Manager really took care of us, our persnickety order and all with good cheer.

Ah, America’s Drive-​In — hits close to him, literally. As the newest resident to the Lutz area, my visits to this location are too often than not.
— Jr. Deluxe Cheeseburger with bacon. Fresh, off the grill flavor — is that real? I hope so.
— Large Onion Ring, eaten before I leave the parking lot. Sweet crispy batter. Dipped in ranch, duh.
One major issue is the wait time here. Not sure if the food is just that fresh or if these people are actually more lazy than I am. I brought this to the attention of the manager after a 20 minute wait (honest) and got the meal for free. They obviously know what’s important to me in life — fast fast food. Best friends.

I’ve had mixed experiences here but I love this place