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The underlying data is rebuilt every week, so prices, calorie counts and item availability refresh together across every article rather than page by page. Articles themselves are revised when something changes: a menu item is discontinued, a deal ends, or a reader reports an error.
Where do the prices in these articles come from?
Sonic's own store level records. Each price is the median across every drive-in that sells the item, not a figure typed in from another site. Sonic drive-ins are independently owned and set their own prices, so most articles show the range as well as the middle value.
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