Sonic Drive-In — Restaurant in Clinton

I have never eaten at a Sonic without getting sick. That said, I was very overheated and I have swung by this Sonic two or three times for drinks because it's right next to a grocery store that I frequent.

Firstly, the price of their drinks has gotten absolutely absurd.

And I used to frequent Sonic for their drinks. But $6 for a cherry limeade is wild. Unless it has alcohol in it, and spoiler it doesn't.

In addition, not only do they charge more for water than any other restaurant or fast food chain in all of the state, but if you are getting water because you don't want a cup full of syrup and ice, which is what this particular Sonic will serve you if you get any of their flavored drinks, they also won't even give you their happy hour discount. So if you just happen to be dying of heat stroke in the 97° South Carolina weather, and you stop by the Sonic here's what you can expect:

Speakers that are busted and way too quiet In order to communicate with the people on the other side of them (This has been so bad that people have literally come to my car to take my order because they can't hear me or I can't hear them, I'm not hard of hearing, it's a problem and it's been in every spot I've parked in)

Screens next to those speakers that just straight up don't work at all, so you cannot use digital payment features, and you can't see what's being rung up, so if they get your order wrong through those shoddy speakers, you have no idea until you've driven away and are drinking it (I don't know if the entire location has busted screens, or if I just happen to have parked three different spots and every single one of them happens to have had a broken screen but that seems sus to me)

God help you. If you actually do get a mixed drink, there is a small chance. A very very small chance, that you will get a decent drink. But the overwhelming likelihood is that you will get a bunch of syrup in the bottom of a very large cup with some ice on top of it. It's bad.

And even getting just a cup of ice water to prevent heat stroke which frankly is illegal in a lot of states and South Carolina needs to wake up, I got a cup of ice water that I very desperately drank and had to pay $1.20 for, which is insane, And I could barely drink half of it because it tasted so strongly of Styrofoam and had an undertone of like a weird metallic aftertaste. Now, before you say well, you were drinking it from a styrofoam cup and it's water and doesn't have a flavor, the actual problem was not the styrofoam cup, because I poured it into a different receptacle. I believe the actual problem is that their ice maker hasn't been cleaned in possibly much too long. Because the water itself was okay? But only for a short period of time, and the more the ice melted the worse the metallic tastes got. I have worked in restaurants, and funky. Tastes in ice is always always always a matter of an ice machine not getting cleaned. Now, Sonic actually sells their ice on its own because like a big deal to people here. Apparently? That they have this compacted crushed ice? Imagine buying, for $2.50 More, just ice. And the whole thing tastes like a styrofoam cooler. Likely because they've got bits of crap in their ice machine and they aren't maintenancing it properly. Which also heavily suggests that their ice machine will have mold/ mildew in it.

This Sonic is a nightmare even by...

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