[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by frazod

I heard somewhere (maybe here?) that those Sonic commercials are filmed in Lee's Summit. I wonder if that's true.

Speaking of Sonic, one finally opened up here in August. There had never been a Sonic within 150 miles of Chicago before, yet they've advertised enough that everybody's heard of them. My wife always drives me nuts wanting Sonic whenever we go to Missouri - of course, to me, it's just friggin Sonic - I've eaten at them all my life - who cares? But when they opened the new one up here, they had cars lined up for hours before it even opened, and the wait was HOURS LONG, all day, for weeks. They actually had to snake two lines of cars (one for parking, one for drive-thru) through a nearby parking lot. All that over a friggin Sonic. The wife was pestering the hell out of me to take her there, but there was no way I was going to wait two hours for a damn cheeseburger. We finally went one night when it was pouring rain and were able to get in.

Never underestimate the power of (apparently very) effective marketing.

People eat food there? It's all about the drinks and ice cream treats