QUESTION: What kind of coffee does Sonic have? I love getting their coffee to drink in the mornings and want to know what all my options are. — Jeffrey M.
ANSWER: Sonic’s popular breakfast lineup includes high quality coffee. With their speedy service it might be the perfect place to grab a cup of coffee on the way to work or really any time of day. Sonic coffee drinks use specialty grade, Fair Trade Certified, arabica beans from Central America and South America, which they get from Green Mountain Coffee. You’ll find Sonic drive-in coffee served in several different ways, from hot, to iced ,to frozen.
Their fresh Green Mountain Coffee is available in drip form, served hot. The drip coffee comes in a variety of flavors; double chocolate twist, French vanilla caramel twist, French vanilla chocolate twist, and praline pecan chocolate twist flavors. They also offer a hot latte and an espresso shot you can add to any drink. Lattes are available in caramel, hazelnut, or mocha. For those hot summer days Sonic has cold drinks. You can get iced lattes or a frozen java chiller which is coffee mixed with real ice cream. Like the hot lattes, iced lattes come in different flavors; caramel, hazelnut, or mocha. Iced coffee comes in original or French vanilla iced coffee.
Sure, Sonic drive-in restaurants don’t have the broad selection that Starbucks does, but they have enough options for most sonic guests to find something they like. And you can’t beat the price: a large latte costs less than two dollars. As far as the quality goes, some reviews say sonic’s coffee drinks taste even better than Starbucks. A list from Thrillist ranking the best of fast food joints coffee put Sonic’s iced coffee French vanilla third, outmatched only by McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts.
We recommend that everyone give one of Sonic’s coffees, iced coffees, lattes, iced latte, or frozen java chillers a try for themselves to see what they think. Lots of people love Sonic’s coffee — as a coffee lover you just might be one of them.