Sonic Drive-In Reviews Summary

Category: Fast food restaurant

Address: 238 Lafayette Ave, Edison, NJ 08837, USA

Phone: +17324834517

Rating: 3.8
based on 243 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "Excellent and fast service at the kiosk! Jessica brought our food and served it with a smile!!"
  • "Service continues to be great and food always comes out hot and fresh."
  • "Quick service, when another guest wouldn't pull out of the drive thru, our payment was processed and our food was brought our anyways."
  • "The staff was very polite. Even at two in the morning."
  • "Tonight was smooth drive thru with great customer service πŸ‘"
  • "The service is fast, friendly and price is reasonable."
  • "They were very friendly and super quick with taking our order and bringing it out."

Cons:

  • "Idk if the food is good or not the service is horrible the fat boy manager working at 240 am on Sat night is such a disaster."
  • "Owner doesn't have accountability for staff or food leaving this place."
  • "its unacceptable that i need to repeat my order 5 times just for one person to understand it."
  • "The service sucks big time couldn't get the order right first, second and third time horrible."
  • "Terrible experience the girl that took our orders was so rude and inconsiderate she only heard half my order so half the food came... it was absolutely terrible."
  • "The man we were getting our order from was very rude bad customer service."
  • "Waited forever no one came to help or responded eventually just ended up leaving."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Shake, slushy & cherry lemonade was perfect for this hot weather."
  • "I had a chilli dog it was sooo good my daughter ordered onion rings we both loved them her husband got philly cheese steak he was amazed on how good it was a so big he has never been to sonic he wants to go again."
  • "The Reeses pieces blast was as tasty as ever though!"
  • "Food is always good, especially the tots and shakes."
  • "The food here is always cooked to order every time I have come and the famous corndogs do not disappoint."
  • "Their popcorn chicken pieces are also pretty good."
  • "Everything was hot and fresh. Service was pretty quick, even with a decent size line waiting in the drive-thru."

Cons:

  • "This was the most disgusting Sonic I have ever eaten at."
  • "The first meal literally tasted like it came out of the refrigerator."
  • "Sandwiches were not up to expectations and they were very dry."
  • "Food was COLD and the portions were sized for a child."
  • "These were nearly inedible. They were somehow dry, the cheese on the inside was tough."
  • "The popcorn chicken was like 90% batter."
  • "Food is really bad. Dry processed chicken in way too much batter."

Order Accuracy

Pros:

  • "Had a big order and they got it all right the first time."
  • "I only had to wait about two to three minutes they are fast efficient and my order was correct."
  • "The order was correct on the screen the first time even though we changed it during the order."
  • "A young man on Roller Blades brought our order."
  • "The server was kind and verified our order."
  • "Love the menu, easy to order from the pull up menu/order. Food was super good. My first time here and it all went so smooth. No issues."
  • "I find this place excellent for fast food and I always get what I order."

Cons:

  • "They have about over ten people working in there and they can’t get my order right when I paid for it."
  • "Then, I get home with my food and find that after all that effort, they hadn’t even gotten my order correct and I had to pick bits of onion off my burger, as I have a intolerance to onions."
  • "Ordered a Cheeseburger, Coke, 2 cheese fries, 1 chili cheese fry... got 1 cheese fry and 2 chili cheese fries."
  • "I will never come back here served everyone else canceled out our order and then we had to re order."
  • "Both times I went to the drive through looking to order a sonic blast and I was told they are 'not doing ice cream right now.'"
  • "I waited for 45 mins for my food to come out completely incorrect, a whole different order."
  • "More often than not I arrive home to find something missing or even the wrong item."

Facility and Accessibility

Pros:

  • "Sonic is nice to go to because you can go to the drive thru or just pull up in a parking spot, order, they bring it right out to you and eat right there in your car."
  • "I like that they have single person facilities but the doors are quite heavy and despite being handicapped accessible."
  • "The location is hard to get out of, but the food and service are fine."
  • "Great place to visit with the family."
  • "Fast service & very convenient. This was the best sonic ive came to thus far, except there isnt a drive thur but thats fine !"
  • "Short wait. Pleasant staff and the food is delicious for fast food."
  • "First time going to Sonic and I can say that this place did not disappoint."

Cons:

  • "UPDATE: we have went there multiple times and the stalls are always closed."
  • "The bathroom door on one side does not lock but conveniently enough there’s a big rock you can put behind it to try to slow somebody down from just barging in."
  • "We noticed that quite a few of the order screens are out of order."
  • "Why didn’t they disable carhop service in the app?"
  • "Parking lot look like it belonged somewhere in the Bronx. It smelled and garbage all over."
  • "All the stalls are useless, because they will MAKE you go to drive thru! to pick up your food!"
  • "Food is great, but much of the tech wasn't working."

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