A small history regarding Sonic Industries:
This company, which was originally based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has nowadays locations everywhere in the United States. Recently a new, retro-futuristic look has been given to the company’s storefronts in order to keep up with the newest tendencies but also to please the eye of the customer.
Sonic Drive-In owns in the business of drive-in fast-food restaurants the largest chain in the United States, owning more than 2800 drive-ins that are located coast to coast. Recently, the United States borders have been broken. Starting in 2001, Sonic began developing chains in Mexico. Sonic is known to own its great friendly Carhop service, its signature menu, and their fresh and great meals. Besides these, there are some unique features that you can find at any Sonic Drive-In, these including:
Dunkin Donut has been offering franchises since 1955, five years after their first shop opened. They have locations both in the United States, and also abroad. The number of locations in the US is above 4800, while there are more than 1700 in other countries (Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Kuwait, and Taiwan). Their main goal is to reach 15,000 locations in the US by the year 2016.
Since 2003, Sonic configured an all new Breakfast menu that contains new breakfast items such as Pancake on a stick (which is actually a sausage link which is wrapped in a pancake, all of these standing on a stick), but also, another new breakfast item – the Sonic Sunrise (which is nothing else but the Cherry Limeade with a splash of orange juice).
Now that you know what you will be serving in your Sonic franchise, if you are interested in opening one, you might be interested in the start-up costs and franchise fees. Bottom line is – how much do you spend when opening a Sonic Drive In franchise? The total investment is somewhere around $710,000 to $2,300,000 with the initial franchise fee running somewhere around $30,000.
Besides this, you might be interested to find out what is the training and support that Sonic franchise is ready to offer anyone. The training which is available at headquarters is for a short period of time – 1 week, but if you are looking for a longer period, you they give 11 weeks of training at the franchisee’s location. The support is also friendly since it guarantees field operations and evaluations, Internet, a grand opening advertising, meetings, newsletters, security and safety procedures information, etc.