Sonic Drive-In

I’m not sure how food can be made fresh but still be cold. But that seems to be my usual in the times I went here. I can’t fathom the continued appeal of this place. There’s always a long line for what has turned out to be carnival food. Maybe it’s the appeal of there not being many locations in the state and it’s become more of a «hey I’ve been here» rather than a «hey I like the food here».
The staff is usually nice, especially at night (as long as it’s not close to closing time. Totally understandable) but that and the mixed drinks are the only saving grace here. Won’t come back here again,

The last 5 out of 6 times we’ve been here, they have gotten the orders wrong. The food is good, but their delivery is absolutely horrid. The receipt shows the order correctly, but the food just isn’t right. It would be a great place to frequent if they got their orders right. For this reason, we stopped coming to this place frequently. Instead of once a month, we’ll stop by once every 6 months — and they STILL get it wrong!

Delicious greasy food at a good price. Staff can be rude sometimes but I still go here because their burgers are amazing and I have problems.

In the grande ranking of quick bites, this place is in the top quarter. In other words, it does some things great, some things good, but nothing amazing. Their burgers are good. Better than McD’s or the King, but not better than Five Guys. The pluses are happy hour and the drive in. They have an old-​school style drive in where you dine in your car. It’s nice if you want to deal with the least amount of people possible or want to work and eat. The happy hour is everyday 2−4pm. The delicious corn dogs are only 99¢ and their awesome slushies are super cheap.

This location served my boyfriend a raw chicken sandwhich. Which could have got the both of us sick since I took a couple of bites from it as well. Absolutely disgusting.

Always great food and great service. Jessica was our car hop and she had the best personality! She talked with us for a couple minutes and she was so funny. Great experience I had here tonight!

Being a huge burger fan, I try to find the perfect burger place. Fast food, of course, is not usually an area to search for such things, but to me, they’re in a class all their own. There are some great fast food burgers, and some not-​so-​great, just like with any other restaurant.
I have to say that Sonic is among the top when it comes to the overall taste of a burger.
SuperSonic burgers are amazing. Before trying them, Wendy’s and Five Guys, in my opinion, made the best fast food burgers. Now I find it difficult to decide which is better. Sonic is probably my new favorite fast food restaurant.
But… I’d be lying if I said this location didn’t have its flaws. I once asked for a double cheeseburger, assuming they knew I wanted a SuperSonic. If you order a double cheeseburger, be sure to call it SuperSonic, because they will automatically assume you’re asking for a JUNIOR double. Even though you never say the word «junior» to them, they take «double» as «oh, the one for kids.» That, to me, doesn’t make any sense. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Double Cheeseburger should be the norm for adults, unless you specify «junior.» Oh well. I’ll put up with it, if they need things that narrowed down.
As for the physical state of the burger… well, it comes in foil to keep it warm, which I REALLY like. Five Guys does something similar to their burgers. It works great. Some places (eh-​hem, McDonalds) use boxes or paper, and I don’t really prefer that. However, you’ll notice that it comes looking a little on the… squished side. When I think of a double burger, I think of this huge, meaty, bloated thing. The bun and stuff between are crushed and flat and… I’ll admit, it doesn’t look great. But perhaps that’s the trade-​off you get for receiving it in foil.
The fries are… meh. They don’t give you a lot, and they’re just okay. I tried their chili fries. They were mostly good, but it was a bit sharp to taste. Probably the cheese sauce. It was… powerful. Wow. And not necessarily in a good way.
The servers are friendly and upbeat for the most part, especially the carhops. We haven’t had a single rude person come to our car, and we’ve eaten here about five times. The drive-​thru is a nightmare, though. The lines are abysmally long, and they are slooooooow as hell. Be wary if you come by here for lunch hour, because you’ll be waiting a while.
We’ve had one order go totally wrong before. Husband asked for a plain burger with nothing on it, not even cheese. Just bread and meat. They confirmed this with him, TWICE. When we got the food, I checked the foil wrapped. On it was a sticker labeled «NO CHEESE.» «Oh,» I thought. «Good. They do listen here.»
When we got home… there was cheese on the burger.
Face-​palm.
So, yeah, sometimes they’re… not too bright here. But their food tastes pretty good. The ice cream is pretty awesome for the price, and the drinks have such variety. There’s really a lot to choose from.
Just make sure to check and double check your food if you go through the drive-​thru. They might have mistaken what you said; or heard you correctly, but screwed you over anyway.

October 3,2014 I have eaten a few different things here but yesterday I was in a hurry needed some breakfast. I keep fast food coupons in my car for emergencies, so I decided to use the BOGO for the toaster breakfast sandwich I got one of each I spent $ 3.17 with tax. I have to say of all the breakfast to go sandwiches these were possibly the best I have ever eaten. They only come with your choice of bacon or sausage. Yummy yummy yummy.

I’ve always been a fan of Sonics. This location is great, it’s fast and the food comes out hot. I always feel bad when I don’t have cash to tip the roller skate kids but they seem to understand. The menus the same as any other sonic but the service is better. I once ordered a gallon of sweet tea and they made me a fresh gallon. Very cool.

I haven’t been to Sonic since December 2011, when I sat in the drive-​thru line watching one of the cooks smoking cigs and hocking loogies right next to the line of cars waiting for food. It was, how you say, unappetizing. I can’t decide if that was more disgusting than the hot, slimy, brownish lettuce on my chicken sandwich that rendered it inedible. Contacts to both the store and Sonic headquarters went unanswered. I haven’t been back since.

Drove up and got an order of tots, a cheesy bacon pretzel dog, and a small Reese’s sonic blast to take back to work for lunch. The sonic blast was in light of it being 90 degrees outside, and it was excellent! The tot’s were pretty good surprisingly. they weren’t trying to be anything other than plain old wonderful tots. The dog was «OK». I love the concept, but it failed with the grilled onions. I didn’t know they were included or I would have had them held off. It threw the flavor off for me. Another down side is the price tag, $ 2.49 for a dog is pretty steep.

Good for drinks and the occasional Chicago hot dog. Get your food and drive over to the Westland mall parking lot. Eat and go shopping!
I’ve seen tomato plants growing around the speaker system. The staff says that they got there by hosing down the garbage cans. The seeds that cling to the cans grow up to be plants.
Makes you think, huh?

I’ve been to the Sonic a few times now and have settled in on their quarter pound foot long coney dog with mustard and onions added. I always opt for the tater tots and enjoy them as well. The service is quick and friendly and they have a drive through if you need it to go. Great shakes and drinks, 4 stars AND I’ll be back…

Hands down the worst service I’ve ever had. Sat at a car port for 25 minutes for an Oreo blast. Left before I was able to be served.
Definitely will not be back.

After seeing all these sonic commercials and at the urging of my fiancée, it was time that i paid sonic a visit. First, i think that this place has good/​great prices, so that alone is worth a star. For my food, i had the spicy popcorn chicken with chipotle, which was probably the best thing here and was really good. I also had fries (good), bacon cheeseburger (also pretty good). I had a couple of my fiancée tater tots and i thought they were average, nothing special. I think why this is such a beloved place is because of the enormous drink/​frozen drink selection. My choice: lime slush with pineapple, which was great. With all due respect to chick inn (which is an original and better if you want the 50’s way of doing food), sonic is the best DriveIn restaurant in the metro Detroit area, that is until i find something better.

The drinks are very good. The food, however, is GROSS. It is usually fresh, but it is bland and tasteless for the most part. I only go there when there is no other real option at the time.
Honestly, I wish they’d kept the Denny’s that used to be there and never bothered with Sonic in the first place.

Oh how I love this place. I’ll start with the service. Depending on how busy they are, your meal usually arrives in 5 minutes. Every car hop I’ve had is very friendly! They’re chipper and make sure you have everything you need.
Next, the shakes and ice cream. Okay so they definitely use real ice cream and real cream. I have yet to taste better ice cream. Not the local parlor nor Baskin Robins even compare. You HAVE to try their ice cream, blasts, and shakes, really. Their Strawberry Shake, Lemon Berry CreamSlush, Oreo Blast, and Vanilla Cone are my favorites.
You must know that they change some menu items periodically. The best sandwich I’ve had so far was the Mushroom and Swiss Toaster Melt. Oh man was that good. Too bad it was limited time only.
They had some other Toaster sandwiches we liked but they are no longer available
:(
I also had a breakfast wrap from there, it was okay. Their chicken burgers could be better as well. Just stick to the regular burgers.
If you love slushes, lemonade and limeade I highly recommend their drinks. They use real fruit and you can mix whatever flavors you want. Handsomely sized from Small to XLarge. My favorite is the Strawberry Minute Maid Lemonade. Medium size for only $ 1.68.
Last but not least there are plenty of side items to order. I usually get the mozzarella sticks or french toast sticks. Your choice of sauce.
Price wise, you can’t beat it. They also have «Happy Hour» (2−4pm) which includes half price drinks, $ 5 Sonic Burgers after 5 every Tuesday. Those are ¼ lb burgers by the way, which I like better than Burger King’s. As well as some other daily deals. Simply put, you get a lot of bang for your buck.

Pros: More drink options than one could possibly ever try. All of the ones I have had so far have been good. My personal favorite is the pineapple milkshake.
Cons: as a vegetarian there are very little choices. It’s grilled cheese and a side (I do like the tots). No veggie burgers =(

Been to this Sonic a few times for different things. The good, Had the breakfast burritos once those were pretty good. I had the Sonic blast a few times those are very very good. The bad, their chili dogs
Worst in the state of Michigan. The french fries were below average. I only give this 2 stars because the service is way to slow, I think this is why they appear to always busy because the line don’t move. If your The 4^th car in line you will wait at least 20 –25 minutes even just for ice cream drink. It is what is I won’t reccommend you go there but I won’t reccommend you don’t either.

My husband and I went tonight for a quick dinner. His back is a wreck and this way he did not have to get out of the car but we still got to go out.
This chain is über popular down south and my nieces and nephew have dragged me here a time or two in Missouri. From those experiences I can highly recommend Cherry Limeades :). James is also familiar having not always been a Michigan guy.
First I must say James is a tater tot fan. The fact that they are an option instead of fries is aces in his book.
It was full but not packed on a Wednesday night and we found an open slot on the first pass through. Our service was speedy and friendly.
We each got super Sonic burger combos. For me, a double burger is a must. James of course got tots, I had fries. We stuck with basic on drinks and got Diet Cokes. Neither one of us is a shake or slush with food person.
The drink selection was awesome, lots of teas and a huge variety of pop. I was happy to see Sprite Zero as it is hard to get a drink other than water that is caffeine and sugar free (a must for my mom). You can also upgrade to slushes or shakes.
We devoured our food. We both found the burgers happy. We agree Culver’s is better but that these are quite respectable, well wrapped too, which is vital for eating in the car. James’ tots were hot and crisp as were my fries. All in all pleasing and fun.
After we were done, we looked at each other and said «dessert?». I had a small caramel milkshake and he indulged in a peanut butter fudge one. His, of course, was better but both were good.
A happy little adventure. Call me a sheep but I know what I like.