The buzz around Sonic seems to be similar to the buzz generated when Krispy Kreme rolled into town. Several years later, Krispy Kreme seems to have overshot market interest -- plus changing tastes / diet fads. Gotta wonder if Sonic will meet the same fate.

Have to say that a true drive in with carhops makes me pine for the days of Dog n Suds and A&W.... Yeah, some of them are still around, but not the same...

I do know people who are nuts about Sonic, so I suspect that a controlled bit of growth will be a good thing. Culvers seems to have succeeded in this market.

I could have sworn that Sonic made a run into Chicago a number of years ago. Maybe I'm thinking of Checkers as well, but there were two places on Mannheim (one in Bellwood at Washington -- that was definitely Checkers -- and one just past North Ave.) that opened and shut within the past ten years. Maybe one of those was a Rally's.