Sonic

The food is ok — tater tots not cooked long enough; ordered a burger without mayo but got mayo anyway. The service is kinda slow, but oddly enough the guy on the microphone acts like you’re bothering him. He can’t take your order fast enough. Gives the unmistakable impression all they want to do is get your money and get you gone.

Avoid at all costs, we just wanted a quick bite on our road trip. ½ hour later still in the drive thru.

I know this is beating a dead horse but im hoping by hitting it a few more times things will change (fyi im not a violent person but this sonic brings out se-​nor hyde). The service is mindbogglingly slow. I say this because its always been this way and they havent fount a way to fix it, nor the inaudible speaker. I only use the drive through but thats a misnomer, it should be a crawl through. The only reason i chose to return is this dame heat sometimes demands a drink as powerful, that drink, on occasion when i am mentally prepared for the snail paced drive through, is a cherry limeade. Im a sucker for the happy hour and this drink with extra limes (they charge for the extra limes too but its worth it, i ex nay the cherry which over rides the price hike, im a frugal sob) is franfreakingtastic.
PS i do not condone smacking around a horse, dead or alive.

The most inconsistent Sonic I have ever been to, the third Sonic I’ve lived close to! Did I mention slow service and poorly made drinks sometimes too sweet and other times not sweet enough.

the food here is good like every sonic I have ate at but the parking lot is ridiculous, if the drive thru gets 3 or more cars and your parked on the side you will be trapped there until the line moves, the Sonic in fresno has a huge parking area so this will never happen I thought all sonics were built the same I guess not, I recommend going through the drive thru rather than eating in your car here because you might get trapped waiting on the line to move

This Sonic was miss named. It’s the slowest fast food place I had ever been.
Spent 10 minutes pressing the order button and they seemed to just ignore us. Then they took forever to get the order out.
Some mental notes for myself:
Don’t get the fries. They’re stale.
Their spicy chicken seemed to just be regular chicken strips that were colored red.
I don’t think they got our order right. We ordered an Oreo peanut butter shake and it seemed to be just peanut butter.
If this was the first time I had Sonics I would honestly never come back to one again and wonder why people liked it so much.

Best shakes and slushies !! We live in pismo and come down to visit. U can never pass up sonic. I only give 4 stars because there staff are a bit rude

Shakes are half off right now after 8pm! Yummy!!! didnt want to wait in the long drive thru so walked up and got my order. Service was quick for 5 shakes. My only complaint is i cant taste any oreo in my peanut butter oreo shake!

I had never been to Sonic, so when we planned a road trip, we looked up a Sonic along our route. We pulled up to a stall, placed our order and waited, and waited and waited… after half an hour i pushed order button to ask about our order. I was told it was coming right out. We waited another 5 minutes and finally drove off. While we waited, we watched about 15 cars come and go thru the drive thru and a bunch of teenagers in front of the restaurant receive their food, which only served to make me more upset. Not the first impression I imagined for my first time at Sonic.

Whenever I am going back to SoCal, I tend to stop at the Tulare outlets for a quick stretch and usually for my dog’s potty break. I am usually checking in at Sonic’s around their happy hour time so I always end up with one of their drinks. Their food hasn’t really been consistent though. Sometimes their tots are crispy and delicious, other times they are a soggy mess of oil and squeezed potatoes. Their sandwiches are usually a hot mess and just falling apart but somehow I manage to still sort of eat them while driving back home. Their service needs a lot of work. Most of the time you can hear them giggling over the intercom yet you are repeating your order since they didn’t hear it the first time. Make sure you have napkins and utensils too before driving off. Oh and if you do drive thru, be ready to wait too. Other than that, their drinks, chili cheese tots and any of their cheeseburgers are legit.

Could you please make it more difficult to order? Or make the print smaller on your menus?

This place is horrible. I’m glad that I have all day long for you take my order and all day for you to somehow fry my tater tots. I understand that it’s after 9pm but maybe schedule more people so paying customers don’t have to wait 20minutes for a meal. Then you don’t even say thank you or have a good evening or sorry for the delay. Excuse me owners of sonic your staff members have no respect for paying customers especially these working this evening Christina and Brian. I’m never returning and telling my friends!

The food was just like any Sonic and it was delicious. I only knock it down a star because the waiters did not serve us on skates like I had been used to. We also ordered a shake/​ice cream mix and had to ask for an additional spoon. Overall it was a great experience and I would definitely go again! Staff was kind and it was delicious!

The staff is comprised of 18 year old kids who don’t care how slow they are. They are rude over the driver thru speaker and basically repeated an order I didn’t give AND she cut me off before I was finished ordering! I had 3 drinks to order and after mentioned one she quickly says, «Ok, drive up to the window.» and she was very annoyed that i had two more drink orders.
I was rude right back and we had to watch them from our car to make sure they didn’t spit in our drinks.
The food is absolutely gross and you can do better at any other close restaurant. We go there every now and then for a shake but we’ll probably just not go there any more. If management happens to see this, we were there 03/​23/​2013 at 9:45pm.
My advise is, don’t come here.

If it wasn’t for the huge signs for the outlet stores, I would never have stopped at this Sonic.
After some lack luster outlet shopping, we decided to get a snack before heading back down the freeway. Boy, was that a mistake. Once in the drive thru, you cannot leave if you wanted to. You end up going down a row of drive in spots and it is one way!!! We were stuck in the drive thru for about 30 minutes. I appreciate the cook to order, but we really only wanted some drinks because it was happy hour.
This Sonic has to have the worst layout and slowest service. Next time I’ll stop by any of the 50 fast food places in Tulane.

It’s a good thing that there are no Sonic’s near me or i would be HUGE.
I LOVE their coneys and they’re just so cheap!
And then their tots, MMM tots, CHILI CHEESE tots, MMM HMMM…

Oh dear! We were on our summer road trip where we went to the Sequoia’s, San Francisco, Yosemite, and then on to Las Vegas.
We saw a Sonic in Tulare and since my bff had never been, I said that I had to show her how good Sonic is and we had to try it. Of course, since it was a road trip, we needed to use the restroom. OMG, it was so gross! It was so disgusting. Not a great first impression.
Then, since we rented a convertible, we had the top down and there were flies flying everywhere. So gross when you are trying to eat!
The waitress just sat there outside smoking her cigarette.
It was such a not a great experience and I feel bad that that was my friend’s first impression.
If you are in Tulare, skip the Sonic!

If I was a fan of old leather boot soles slapped between two limp buns, this would have been an excellent burger.
But I’m not, so it wasn’t.
Grotesque. Never. Again.

Haha, only a Sonic in tulare would have 4.5 stars.
Grosssssssssss.
Sonic is pretty much garbage. I’d have to say it’s worse than Burger King, McDonalds and Wendy’s combined. As far as quality and taste goes.
As far as selection, they have a pretty good variety. Hence the 2 stars.
Good drinks, especially happy hour ½ priced drinks.
Otherwise this place is grossss. I stop here on the way to camping usually, because i don’t have any Sonics where i live (thank god).
But i guess for tulare, it’s not bad. But i’d still eat at Carls across the street anyday.

Hell Yes for Sonic!
Drive thru or drive in, which ever you please! Whatever you do definitely get a shake or specialty drink! I recommend their diet strawberry limeade or their new caramel java chillers!
Tator tots — AWESOME!