In one year, Sonic sells enough of the delicious drinks to fill more than 15 Olympic sized swimming pools. These days, the company has turned to Oklahoma City Thunder player Kevin Durant for celebrity endorsement—specifically, to push their new line of slushes studded with candy pieces.
If Durant gets tired of adding Jolly Ranchers and Nerds to his drinks, he has plenty of other options available. In fact, even though Sonic advertises , combos, the Wall Street Journal found even more— , They received more than entries , from Blue Hawaiian Sprite with blue coconut flavoring and real pineapple to Strawberry Shortcake Sprite with vanilla flavoring, sweet cream, and real strawberries.
The person test kitchen works to invent new menu items and perfect old ones. The test kitchen staff also runs the employee cafeteria. A photo posted by?
Their slogan? Many of us can barely make it across a parking lot on foot without nearly getting hit by a car or tripping over a curb. That makes the carhops at Sonic even more impressive. They roller-skate from the kitchen right to your car, avoiding all sorts of obstacles along the way, all the while balancing a tray of burgers, snacks, and slushies.
It makes sense, then, that things can get competitive among the carhops. In fact, Sonic hosts a yearly skate-off for its employees at the company's headquarters in Oklahoma City. The obstacle course isn't your traditional stay inside the lines, swerve around the cones deal, either.
Instead, competitors have to avoid things they'd face on the job, like skating under a rail, making their way through closed doors, and navigating sets of stairs all while holding a full tray of food and drinks. Pretty impressive, right? Just as In-N-Out Burger cuts their potatoes fresh in store every day, so too does Sonic make their onion rings by hand.
The rings have a crunchy cornmeal coating, and most stores have a dedicated employee whose job it is to slice onions, batter them, and fry them. Sonic's rings have a distinctive sweet flavor, mingling with the salt to make you want to order a second batch before you're even done with your first. According to one former employee , the secret to their sweetness is vanilla ice cream.
Instead of a traditional egg mix, the onions are dipped into liquid vanilla soft serve mix, dipped in flour, dipped back in the soft serve mix, dipped into cornmeal, and then fried. It's a strange combination, but if you've ever tasted their onion rings, you have to admit that it works.
Drinks are usually an afterthought when you hit up the drive through. You need something to wash down that spicy chicken sandwich and double bacon cheeseburger, right? But at Sonic, the drinks are more than just an add-on; they're an art form. Rather than just offering the usual fountain drinks, they've created a massive menu of slushies, soft drinks, and milkshakes, all of which can be customized to make your perfect summer sip. In fact, because of all of the custom options, Sonic technically serves more than 1.
Add real fruit to your limeade, frozen lemonade, or slushy, try a slushy full of candy, or create an iced coffee concoction that doubles as dessert. They've also got thousands of milkshake combos when you're craving something sweet, with everything from fresh bananas to Oreo cheesecake thrown in as an extra treat. It's reason enough to swing by. They began to phase in cage-free eggs and sourcing pork from facilities that don't keep pigs in gestation crates.
They also made it a goal to encourage their poultry suppliers to a more humane method of slaughtering chickens. In , they doubled down, setting specific goals for the full implementation of their animal welfare policy in all 3, Sonic restaurants in the US.
They've committed to using percent cage-free eggs by the years , and to eliminating pork from suppliers that use gestation crates entirely by When large chains like this make a change to their supply demands, it can actually have a big impact on the farming industry.
The two Sonic dudes in all those commercials are improv actors T. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz. They starred in the ads from , and in , they uploaded a bunch of supposedly self-made commercials demanding their jobs back. But, really, all the videos were just a big publicity stunt by the company to re-promote the brand and the duo.
Well played, Sonic, well played. From , Sonic aired one of their most recognized ad campaigns starring s teen heartthrob Frankie Avalon.
Because everyone loves a little formerly boyish charm with their burger. Because it's probably important that you know at least one of these two facts. Skip to main content Eat. Root beer is basically responsible for its existence. The roller-skating servers were really a business strategy. There's a seriously badass beach location in Florida. They have a crazy system-wide skate-off.
You actually can still order discontinued items most of the time. They're basically the milkshake masters They have one of the best booze-less happy hours ever. They're in almost every US state. You can get your drank on in a ridiculous number of delicious ways.
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