Sonic Comes to Chicagoland

Could be Cherry Limeade withdrawals...

I found the perfect time for you to go to Sonic! We just drove by (8am) and there were only 5 cars and no apparent lines. Didn't stop though, we just finished breakfast at our favorite mom & pop.

kland01s - thanks for the updates...as I'm not a Sonic expert, is the full menu served all day or is it compartmentalized into time of day?

They advertise the 24 hour menu available on TV a lot. I have done more than one Cherry-Lime aide at 7 am while on the road.

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen


They advertise the 24 hour menu available on TV a lot. I have done more than one Cherry-Lime aide at 7 am while on the road.

No doubt that Al likes their drinks.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Finally made the western treck...about 30 minutes, to the new Sonic. Arriving at 1:05pm, we were surprised to still see a line outside the Sonic proper. The que begins in the Wal Mart parking lot and lasted 28 minutes.

After having our parking lot pass checked, we were allowed into the inner sanctuary. I was dissapointed to find about 6 open spots when our turn finally came.

Ordering was complicated by the fact that we had conversational English challanges. I do not understand the management thinking in having someone man the microphone that has poor English skills. It required numerous corrections and alot of repetition.

We had a couple of SuperSonic burgers, a foot long chili cheese coney, fries, chili cheese tator tots, a sausage breakfast burrito, a cheesey sausage breakfast burrito (which came with no cheese!), cherry limeade, vanilla watermelon slushie and a Bannana Pudding Shake (a special).

Food came out hot, packaged well and except for the no cheese on a cheesy burrito, pretty good.

Not sure we'll make the run for a while but there are others under construction.

CTD, I was at that Wal-Mart on Saturday and then at the Starbucks right next to Sonic on Sunday, each time about 9:30 am. Each day there were maybe 2 cars parked and 2 in the drive up so I guess they don't have much of a breakfast appeal.

As for English skills or lack there of, it seems to be a common problem in this area at all the fast food drive ups.

4 pieces of Popeyes Spicy Chicken (2 wings and 2 legs) and a SONIC Hiway 44 size Cherry Limeade with extra Cherry in it made a great late afternoon lunch for me today.

And I'll bet you didn't have to wait in line for an all access pass!

Nope..I did the traditional Drive-thru window pickup ! Our newer Sonics have a regular Drive-up window. The older stores use the speaker box and menu, but have you wait beside the store for a server to bring you packaged food and drink out to you.

Now this morning (8:15am) I tried the Breakfast Burrito (not worth a second try) and a Cherry Limeade (extra Cherry). I bother to tell you about the drink because I asked the mystery speaker box for 'Extra Cherry' and when I checked the drink a few minutes later instead of a second shot of the Cherry Syrup, I found 11 Marashino Cherries in my drink !!!( AND Three Lime Halves).

Between the ice and all the fruit you couldn't have had much DRINK!

Susan,
If they hadn't been Hiway 44 (44 oz) the drink would not have been measureable!! But with the Big One there was enough to keep me going for awhile. At times I will pad them with a can of Vernor's kept in the car for that purpose...I use that for "Extended Dry Spells !!"