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            <title>REAL ICE CREAM</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>COMING THIS SUMMER 
REAL ICE CREAM 
MERCHANDISING | SONIC IMPLEMENTS BASIC RECIPE CHANGES FOR FROZEN TREAT 
BY JENNIFER PALMER 
Business Writer jp</description>
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            <title>Behind Closed Doors at Sonic, It's a Blast</title>
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            <title>Creating magic with a pair of roller skates</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Creating magic with a pair of roller skates 
Ed Grisamore 
gris@macon.com 
Everyone has a gift to share with the world. Some people can sing. Other</description>
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            <title>Job for skaters</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Job for skaters 
Sonic Drive-ins have found that skating carhops tend to attract more business. 
By Jenny Kincaid Boone 
jenny.boone@roanoke.com 98</description>
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            <description>Sonic Carhop is Hopping 
Sonic General Manager Will Bennett, of Montgomery, with a Sonic character. (M.F. Photo) 
New Windsor - Sonic, a drivein eat</description>
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            <title>Drive-ins bring back carhops on roller skates</title>
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            <description>Drive-ins bring back carhops on roller skates 
Ruby's Diner and Sonic reintroduce entertainment 
By Bruce Horovitz USA TODAY 
Q.: What's got eight </description>
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Local Sonic employee earns spot in commercial with his skills on skates 
By Bj Lewis 
StaffWriter 
From carhoppin</description>
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WHO'S NEWS 
Local Sonic carhop featured in ad 
WAUKESHA - Carhop Lonna Kissling, 17. of Waukesha is appearing in a national commercial from SON</description>
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            <title>Sonic drive-ins rolling in</title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Burgers with a side of nostalgia 
Sonic drive-ins rolling in 
By Linda Loyd 
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER 
They are a throwback to the 1950s. Elvis Presl</description>
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            <title>Sonic opens bright and early in Franklin Park</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Sonic opens bright and early in Franklin Park 
By MARK LAWTON 
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After years in the making, the first new business has o</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Sonic booming in Hayward 
3 Drive-in eatery now open on Mission Boulevard 
By Eric Kurhi 
ohnrhi nbnxcin.aiicicsgrQiip.com 
HAYWARD  Here's some </description>
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            <title>On a roll in Duarte</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>SONIC DRIVE-IN 
On a roll in Duarte 
Fast-food chain brings back 1950s-style skating carhops 
By Kevin Smith Staff Writer 
DUARTE - Employees of t</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <description>Skating Sonic carhops ready for restaurant's opening 
Easton High School graduates lonanye Watkins, left, and Melanie Candel practice skating around </description>
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            <title>Skates, waits mark Sonic Drive-in's debut</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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Skates, waits mark Sonic Drive-in's debut 
Cars line up for taste of eatery's first day in Green Bay 
BY RICHARD</description>
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            <title>Sonic fans take appetites to Troy</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>FAST FOOD ON WHEELS 
Sonic fans take appetites to Troy 
Carhop culture on grand display at grand opening 
By MELANIE D. SCOTT 
FREE PRESS STAFF WR</description>
            <author>Melanie D. Scott</author>
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            <title>Limeades for Learning helps local schools</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>SONIC 
Limeades for Learning helps local schools 
By Johnna Ray 
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Local schools are reaping the benefits of Sonic Drive-I</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>VISTA | SONIC PREPARES TO OPEN IN CITY NEXT MONTH 
SONIC BOOM 
City prepares for more traffic; plan in place to limit congestion 
By CIGI ROSS 
cr</description>
            <author>Cigi Ross</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Sonic barrier broken 
1950s-style drive-in food chain, long awaited by its fans, arrives in Mass. with a boom, and traffic jams follow 
By Jonathan </description>
            <author>Jonathan Phelps</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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Designer Cynthia Rowley is partnering with Babies "R" Us to offer Hooray by Cynthia Rowley apparel; everything from bibs to playwear. i</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Drive-In to compete at national Sonic games 
Staff reports 

Some employees of a Manhattan Sonic Drive-In will travel to Las Vegas to compete to be</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Limeades for Learning 
Buena student leads refreshing effort to raise money for schools 
BYUZMANRING 
HERALD/REVIEW 

SIERRA VISTA - Next month, </description>
            <author>Cole, Dana</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>SONIC officially opens in Peabody 
PEABODY 
By Dan Baer 
The Daily Item 

After months of anticipation from the hoards of North Shore residents w</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Peabody first to feel Sonic boom 
By DONNA G00DIS0N 
A longtime Southern fast-food fave that delivers customer orders by carhops is headed to Peabod</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Weekend Today anchor Amy Robach visited the new Sonic Drive-In in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. to tape a segment on classic summer jobs … and, of course, t</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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The Sonic Drive-In crews at 112 E. H Ave. in Cache and 2302 E. Gore in Lawton are one step closer to qualifyin</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>'Sonic' boom 
New Yorkers hungry for burgers and nostalgia can look no further than 12 miles across the Hudson River this weekend. 
Sonic Drive-in, </description>
            <author>Kirsten Fleming</author>
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            <title>Sonic Drive-ln rolls into North Jersey</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Sonic Drive-In rolls into North Jersey 
By JOAN VERDON 
STAFF WRITER 
A different kind of fast-food chain restaurant, featuring in-car dining, arri</description>
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            <title>New Sonic open in Reading</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>FREE FLOAT NIGHT SURPASSES SONICS EXPECTATIONS</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>FREE FLOAT NIGHT SURPASSES SONICS EXPECTATIONS 
FROM STAFF REPORTS 
Millions of people couldn't resist the opportunity for free ice cream handed out</description>
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            <title>Carhops roll into Mission Viejo</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
            <description>Carhops roll into Mission Viejo 
Second O.C. Sonic restaurant 
does test runs 
before Monday's 
public opening. 
By NIYAZ PIRANI 
THE ORANGE COU</description>
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Crowds wheel in for opening of first local Sonic drive-in 
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THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS 
WYOMING  </description>
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Fast-food restaurant opens first Grand Rapids site Monday 
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STAFFWRITER 
A food cult reminiscent of the Krispy Rreme phenomenon is coming to Santee</description>
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Crowd greets 
latest Southland 
eatery 
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STAFF WRITER 
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¦ Police are working overtime in order to deal with Sonic traffic along Main Street 
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Sanford Sonic one step away from Olympic-style finals 
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TRUETT CATHY'S NEW VENTURE 
PAGE 122 
THE QSR 50 2008 
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A Precursor 
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 StaffWriter  
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Miami 
Starbucks 
Seattle 
Subway 
Wilford, Cofin. 
Pizza Hut 
Dallas 
Wendy's 
Dublin, Ohio 
Taco Bell 
Irane, Calif. 
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mburden@flintfpurnal.com • 810.766.6316 
:&gt;6#GC 
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