Sonic Drive-In

I don’t normally eat fast food, but I enjoy their milkshakes.

Okay. I’m going to try not to make this seem like more than what it is but some parts of this review is just unavoidable common sense errors. I drove up to Sonic for the first time in my life on October 28, 2015. It was late, I was in a U-​Haul van and I had a long trip ahead of me back to Northern Virginia. All my friends raved about this place so when I pulled into the drive-​in, my expectations were through the roof! I pulled into the driveway and I just sat there for awhile expecting someone to come to my door. After about what felt like 10minutes or soI realized that no one was gonna come out to help me. So I looked at the strange ordering set-​up and scanned it a few moments trying to figure it out. What really urked me about this is that I could see the servers peeking out of the windows at me and obviously seeing that I am having trouble but NO ONE came out to find out what the issue was. This black car finally pulls in besides me and I finally get what I’m suppose to be doing. Do I press the little red button to state my order — ok. The waitress comes out serve the black car besides me and she is all smiles and bubbly but when she finally approaches my car she smiles but her attitude is very dismissive and she shows very little enthusiasm towards me — certainly not as much as she has showed to my neighboring vehicle. «Is it because she’s white and I’m black», «Is this girl a racist» or «Is it because I am dark mysterious black guy in a van who couldnt figure out there ordering system» that made me so forboding. I don’t know but I was disgusted by the apprehension. «What is your name I asked», and the cute young server responded «Kaylin» or something to that effect. Then she wanted to know why I asked her for her name. I didnt want to go into the detail with this young lady (I would have only gotten more agitated). As I sat back to enjoy my food, It struck me odd that someone wouldnt come back and check up on my experience especially after I told my server that this was my first time at a Sonic EVER… then I saw what might have been the distraction. Peering right back through that window that I saw these young servers sneaking a peek at me earlier, I saw servers counting wads of dollar bills and exchanging money back in forth. «This place must do tips», I thought to myself. The hell with that! I wanted to order one of those cool slurpees but by this time I felt disgusted. I threw my U-​Haul in reverse and bolted out of there. I have never felt so underserved in my life!!! Maybe Sonic is a good place to eat, I love their commercials but I seriously doubt that I will ever visit Sonic again. If I do chance a second visit to this restaurant, it certaintly wont be the one at this location. ~Severely Disappointed

This, like many restaurants in Radford, tends to be overrun with the college kids; however, the staff is always friendly and we get in and out quickly. Something I never realized (because I don’t frequent Sonic very often) is you can do call-​ahead ordering. That’s nice to know so they can have everything ready for you ahead of time.
The only reason I knocked two stars off is the lack of vegetarian-​friendly items on the menu. The menu’s main focus is burgers, chicken sandwiches, and hot dogs. For dinner I ate mozzarella sticks and jalapeño poppers. Healthy. Maybe I read their menu online incorrectly, but I didn’t even see salads as an option?
Something that is pretty cool is their huge drink selections. You can really customize any type of slush or drink or soda. They also have great milkshakes and I believe sometimes in the evening they are cheaper or half price or something.
Sonic is great for a greasy meal and unhealthy drink or dessert (don’t EVEN get me started on how amazing the ice cream sundae is!), but there are no real options for anyone who cares about being healthy. Bottled water and apple slices, I suppose?

Best cherry coke ever! It’s a fun experience and where I live we don’t have any sonics close by. Tots are a must! They have so many drink choices and desserts… Fun fast food place to eat when you’re road tripping

My wife and I would visit this place a few times a year… we enjoyed it as any sonic.

Sonic is, as is most fast food, pretty foul.
They constructed this particular location when I was in middle school. It’s within walking distance from the middle and high school so when we had some spare coin on us, down the hill we hiked and across the street to Sonic we’d go.
Back when I ate «meat,» my poison of choice was a hot dog with ketchup and onions only, tater tots and a Dr. Pepper. We’re talking like, 7^th grade.
So now when I go back to Radford to visit my parents (which is very infrequent) a nostalgic visit to Sonic is always in order. Nowadays, my order consists of tator tots and chocolate cream pie shake or if I’m feeling especially unhealthy, I’ll get mozzarella sticks.
That’s what I ordered most recently last week whilst home for Christmas. And get this, they gave me not one, not two but THREE marinara sauce containers!
The Chicago area recently got a couple of Sonic’s and I tell you what, there is no way in hell they would give me THREE containers of marinana sauce. They’d be making me pay extra for that. Oh yes, they sure would.
So anyway, we went at like 11:30am, it was the day I was leaving and we hadn’t gone there yet so it was kind of a last minute thing pretty much right as I was peeling out. We ordered all kinds of weird stuff. I had my shake, tots and mozzarella sticks, my sister had a chicken sandwich meal…
They had it out to us in less than 5 minutes but kept apologizing profusely for the wait. What wait? Southern people are so damn polite.
So yes, this is more for the memories than anything else. And when I look at the picnic tables of the seating area, I remember being 13 and laughing hysterically when my friend would order a «medium orange slut» (instead of slush! Sarcastic laughter) and also sitting down eating as bodies were being cremated at the funeral home across the street. We could always tell from the gas ripples coming out of the top of the chimney thing.