Sonic Menu with Prices and Calories

Sonic cooks to order from a parking stall, so the Sonic menu reaches a tray at the car window rather than a counter. Burgers press onto the flat-top while tots and Groovy Fries drop into the fryer. The drink station runs longer than the food board, covering slushes, limeades, teas, coffees and the shakes built off the same soft serve.

Combo rows bundle an entree with a side and a drink, which is why they carry a price and no single calorie count. A drink or a side ordered on its own carries its own figure instead.

Sonic menu at a glance

Sonic Menu Prices and Calories

The Sonic menu splits into food cooked to order at the grill and fryer. A drink station carries more flavours than the food board carries items. Burgers, coneys, chicken and breakfast all come out of the same kitchen. Slushes, limeades, teas, coffees, shakes and Blasts get built at the drink window.

Every item, cup size and piece count on the Sonic menu takes a row of its own, with one calorie figure and one price. Combo, bundle and kids’ meal rows carry a price alone, because the side and the drink inside them get chosen at the speaker.

Sonic Breakfast Menu

Breakfast runs all day at Sonic, which keeps burritos and TOASTER sandwiches on the Sonic menu at any hour a drive-in is open. The TOASTER stacks egg, cheese and either bacon or sausage onto Texas toast. Burritos roll scrambled egg, cheddar and bacon or sausage into a warm flour tortilla. Some drive-ins add a brioche breakfast sandwich, and French Toast Sticks come with syrup for dipping.

Sonic Burgers Menu

Every patty on the Sonic menu goes onto a flat-top and gets pressed, which is where the SONIC Smasher line takes its name. Original, All-American and All-American Bacon Smashers each carry two Angus patties, or three in the Triple build. Smoked Gouda and Bacon joins them for a limited run with grilled onions and black pepper aioli. SuperSONIC builds stack two patties with or without bacon, and the Jr Double and Jr Bacon Cheeseburgers hold the small end.

Sonic Hot Dogs and Coneys

Coneys arrive split down the middle and loaded with chili and shredded cheddar. The Footlong Quarter Pound stretches that build across a longer bun. The All-American Dog swaps chili for mustard, ketchup, relish and diced onion. Corn Dogs come battered and fried on the stick rather than served in a bun.

Sonic Chicken Tenders, Bites and Sandwiches

Chicken Tenders come breaded and fried in three-piece and five-piece counts, cut from all-white meat. The Crispy Chicken Sandwich sets a breaded fillet on a bun, and three wraps roll a single tender into a flour tortilla. Garlic Parmesan Ranch, Cheesy Baja and Creamy Mustard name the sauce inside each one. The Grilled Cheese Sandwich griddles American cheese between Texas toast, and Country Fried Steak Sandwich turns up at some drive-ins.

Premium Chicken Bites shrink the same breading onto boneless pieces and sell by the cup in small, medium and large.

Sonic Snacks Menu

Soft pretzel dough gets twisted, baked and brushed with a butter flavour before coarse salt goes on top. Each one comes out warm. The Soft Pretzel Twist eats fine on its own, and a dipping sauce from the counter turns it into something closer to a side. Corn Dogs from the hot dog board double as another quick snack.

Three FRITOS builds sit beside them. The Chili Pie scoops chili and cheese over a bag of corn chips. The two wraps fold the same chips, chili and cheese into a tortilla at two sizes.

Sonic Sides Menu

Tots are the side Sonic built its reputation on. Shredded potato gets pressed into cylinders and fried until the outside crisps, and Groovy Fries run the same potato in a ridged cut. Both take chili and shredded cheddar as a topping, or the cheese alone.

Ched ‘R’ Peppers stuff jalapeno with cheddar before breading, while Mozzarella Sticks and Onion Rings fill out the fryer. Every side comes in small, medium and large, and the pepper and mozzarella orders count four, six or eight pieces. Plain Tots declare none of the ten.

Sonic Combo Meal Prices

A combo on the Sonic menu bundles the entree with a side and a drink. Calories move with whichever side and drink go into the bag, so each combo carries a price alone.

Breakfast combos build on the burritos, the TOASTER sandwiches and French Toast Sticks. The rest run off the Smashers, the cheeseburgers, the coneys and the chicken line. The $7 and $9 Big Deal Meals pair a SONIC Cheeseburger with Premium Chicken Bites, tots or fries and a medium drink.

Sonic Wacky Pack Kids Meals

Wacky Pack meals on the Sonic menu cut the entree down to a kids’ portion and add a small side and a drink. Hamburger, Chicken Tenders, Hot Dog, Corn Dog and Grilled Cheese make up the five. The side choice covers small fries, small tots or Tree Top applesauce. Each one carries a price alone, since the side and the drink set the calories.

Sonic Blast Menu

A Blast folds candy or cookie pieces through vanilla soft serve until the mix runs the depth of the cup. OREO, REESE’S, M&M’S and HEATH all appear as mix-ins, and the Turtle Truffle Nut build adds praline almonds and caramel-filled chocolate truffles. Cookie dough and brownie versions drop chunks of raw dough or baked brownie into the same base. Each Blast comes in a Mini, small or medium cup.

Sonic Classic Shakes

Classic Shakes on the Sonic menu blend real ice cream rather than a soft-serve mix. Whipped topping and a cherry finish the cup. Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and banana cover the standards, while hot fudge, caramel and peanut butter work the syrup side. All seven pour thick enough for a spoon, in four cups from Mini to large.

Sonic Master Shakes

Master Shakes layer a whole dessert flavour into the base instead of a single syrup. A cheesecake build tastes of the crust as much as the filling. OREO appears three ways here, with cheesecake, with chocolate and with peanut butter. Strawberry Cheesecake rounds out the five core builds, each in the same four cups as the Classic Shakes.

Sonic Sundaes and Soft Serve

Sundaes pour hot fudge, caramel or strawberry over vanilla soft serve. Whipped topping and a cherry finish them. The Vanilla Soft Serve Cup skips the topping and serves the soft serve on its own, which is also the base every Blast starts from. Floats pour BARQ’S Root Beer or a cherry-vanilla holiday slush over that same soft serve.

Sonic Coffee Menu

Cold brew steeps without heat, which is why the Original and French Vanilla versions pour smooth rather than bitter. Both come in small, medium, large and Route 44 cups.

Hot drip coffee pours black from the urn and holds at zero calories a cup.

Sonic Flavorista Drinks

Flavorista drinks are the mixed builds Sonic assembles from its own syrups, fountain sodas and sweet cream rather than pouring straight from the fountain. Regulars build others from the same syrups, ordered by ingredient rather than by name. Twisted Flamingo runs cherry vanilla and sweet cream through Sprite, while Shark Bite and Cocoberry Cream layer coconut, vanilla and real strawberries. Dirty Dr Pepper sits beside them, and Holiday Creamy Vanilla and Merry Berry Fizz join for the season.

Sonic Refreshers

Refreshers on the Sonic menu start from green tea and fruit purees, lightly caffeinated and boosted with electrolytes. Strawberry Passion Fruit, Mango Peach and Berry Citrus are the three flavours. Each pours still, sparkling or frozen into a slush, and the frozen builds carry the most calories of the three.

Sonic Rechargers with Red Bull

Rechargers pour Red Bull over ice and cut it with a fruit flavour rather than blending it into a slush. Twisted Lime, Blood Orange and Dragon Fruit are the three builds. All three carry the same caffeine base under different syrups.

Sonic Lemonades and Limeades

Limeades get built with real lime wedges dropped into the cup. They carry the drink the Sonic menu has been known for longer than any burger. Cherry, strawberry and cranberry versions add fruit syrup to that base, while diet builds drop the sugar. All Natural Lemonade squeezes lemon instead of lime, and the strawberry, blue raspberry and cranberry lemonades work off it.

Sonic Slush Flavors

The slush machine churns flavoured ice to a texture between a drink and a dessert. Flavour goes in as syrup at the pour. Cherry, blue raspberry, blue coconut, grape, cranberry, peach and mango are the standing flavours, and POWERADE Mountain Berry Blast sits alongside them. Each of those flavours comes in five cups, from a Mini to a Route 44.

Sonic Real Fruit and Cream Slushes

Strawberry Slush runs real strawberry pieces through the ice rather than syrup alone, in the same five cups as the flavoured slushes. Cream Slushes blend vanilla soft serve into a strawberry, cherry or blue coconut slush. Those three come in small, medium and large only. They drink halfway to a shake.

Sonic Soft Drinks

Every fountain pour on the Sonic menu comes over the chain’s pellet ice, in five cups from a Mini to a Route 44. The ice is soft enough to chew, which is why the cups get bought empty. Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Fanta Orange, BARQ’S Root Beer, Big Red and Hi-C Fruit Punch fill the standard lineup. Diet and zero-sugar builds cover the first three, and Ocean Water carries a hint of blue coconut.

Sonic Iced Tea Menu

Sonic brews its tea on site and pours it sweet or unsweet over that same pellet ice. Half-and-half builds split the cup between sweet and unsweet, or between tea and lemonade. The sugar lands wherever the order puts it, which is why the split gets asked for by name.

Sonic Juice, Milk and Bottled Drinks

Simply Orange Juice, a Minute Maid apple juice box and a carton of 1% milk cover the non-fountain side of the Sonic menu. Most ride along with a kids order, and bottled water sits beside them. None of them pours from the fountain.

A cup of water and the pellet ice on its own both sell by cup size, and regulars buy the ice to take home.

Sonic Carhop Ordering

Sonic parks its customers in numbered stalls rather than a single moving lane. Each stall carries a lit panel of the Sonic menu, and a red button on the speaker opens the order. Carhops bring the food out to the car, some of them on roller skates, and the chain runs a skating contest between them each year. App orders work the same way: pull into a stall, check in on the phone and press the button.

Sonic Hours

Sonic drive-ins unlock at six or seven in the morning and run to somewhere between ten at night and midnight. Stalls often shut before the drive-thru lane does at restaurants trading late. Happy Hour occupies the middle of the afternoon, between two and four, on every day of the week. A late-night version repeats from eight in the evening through to closing, and holiday trading varies by restaurant.

Sonic Locations

Sonic runs more than three thousand four hundred drive-ins, reaching 47 states and better than 1,900 cities. Texas alone accounts for around a quarter of them, far ahead of any other state. The South and the Plains carry the densest coverage, and the Northeast the thinnest. Sonic’s app and website locator both find the nearest drive-in, and every one of them runs the same Sonic menu.

What Ordering at Sonic Is Like

Sonic builds its restaurants around a canopy of parking stalls rather than a dining room. Most sites carry a drive-thru lane as well, and many add patio tables outside. Food arrives at the car on a tray, handed through the window by the carhop.

The Sonic menu runs the same at a stall, at the drive-thru window and in the app. Ice, drinks and slushes carry a following of their own, and the chain leans on them after dark. Evening trade builds around that, which is why the late shift stays busy.

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