Tips, Guides & Money-Saving Breakdowns

The underlying data is rebuilt every week, so prices, calorie counts and item availability refresh together across every guide rather than page by page. Guides themselves are revised when something changes: a menu item is discontinued, a deal ends, or a reader reports an error.

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 guides show the range as well as the middle value.

No. Sonic Menu Guide is independent and unofficial, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Sonic Drive-In or Inspire Brands. That is also why the guides can say when something is not worth ordering.

Only how they are written. Articles are dated pieces on one subject, like the Happy Hour breakdown. Guides answer a standing question that gets asked the same way every month, like opening hours or what a bag of ice costs, so they are kept current rather than published and left alone.

Yes, and both are welcome. Price errors are the most useful thing to report, because a wrong number is worse than a missing one. There is an email address on the contact page and corrections usually land the same day.