The Economy

Right, but his friend doesn’t repair ice cream machines. He does ice makers. So he wouldn’t quite have the insight you were looking for.

If you are ever in flyover country, Sonic isn’t a bad choice for burgers and dogs, although that doesn’t do much for a vegetarian like you. Pretty decent desserts though and they do great things with fountain drinks and mixing flavors. And the limeaids rock.

 

Either that or Journey-jacks.

 

I did a grad school turn in CoMo, and beyond the college experience I was exposed for the first time to Walmart and Sonic. Of the three of us -- me, Sonic and Walmart, Walmart was the biggest success. Although at the time I thought Sonic might win out.

 

He already has ... it's the grease-ency heuristic.

 

Sonic for tots and limeades, and nothing else. Their burgers are shit, and I don't eat hot dogs (except for stadium dogs).

McD's doesn't serve ice cream. It is an ice cream-like substance, but it isn't ice cream.

 

We like Scream Truck, a bespoke by-appointment ice cream truck in northern NJ. The soft-serve ice cream is really excellent.

 

Bespoke you say? Sounds elitist, and yet my kind of soft serve. Do they offer a waffle cone, perchance?

 

It’s served on avocado toast and is the reason young people can’t buy a home.

 

McDonald’s soft-serve machines are notorious for breaking down, so much so that in 2020, one frustrated ice cream enthusiast created McBroken, a website where you can check and see if your local machine is up and running.

Check out all the red dots.
Seems to be a problem all over.

 

I took this at a Sonic (fittingly enough) in 2017.

 

Tell them to leave me out of it!