Ever wonder what it would be like if the ground opened up and swallowed a Sonic whole? Well the people of Cleveland, GA, almost got to see just that when much of their local fast food joint — along with the parking lot of the neighboring car wash — sunk several feet into the earth earlier this week.
Amazingly, no one was hurt when the sinkhole, blamed on recent heavy rainfall in the area, opened up. The employees and customers were able to get out and the Sonic’s manager even snapped some cellphone footage of the eatery’s front section sinking into the hole.
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Since we are talking about Sonic; what exactly is the tipping situation for a fast food place that is already relatively overpriced?
Tipping isn’t expected at Sonic, but they are allowed to accept. If you pay by credit card you are not given an opportunity to add a tip and must do so in cash if inclined.
This in contrast with our dominate local grocery store where the employees are threatened with termination if they accept a tip (such as when they help load groceries into the car).
At our Sonic the credit card receipt does have room for a tip. I don’t tip at Sonic, though.
“Dominate” grocery store? What is that?
At a local Sonic that I stopped going to because of the routine problems I had with simple orders, one carhop gave me my food but not my change and started walking away. I asked her if she had my change. She looked surprised and said, “Oh, I thought it was my tip.”
Depends on the Sonic actually. There are some franchise owners who only pay waitress minimum and expect the carhops to get tips. I’m pretty sure the one in my area does that.
IMO: if someone comes out to you, takes your order, and brings back th food? They’ve earned a tip.
If, OTOH, you go up to the counter, and carry your own food away? Tips are nice, but not obligatory.
If they’re on skates and the service isn’t bad, I tip a dollar.
The Apolocypse is nigh!
Nah, it’s just Hell trying to reclaim one of its exports.
Anbody know of a cell phone (available in USA) with better video quality (than shown above of the sinking)?
I think… all of them?
The GF has an iPhone 3gs… it’s always impressed me and others with the clarity.
Thank you, both of you.
There are several high-end phones, mostly by Nokia and Samsung, that have 5+ megapixel cameras and can do DVD or HD resolution video.
It’s like the end of Poltergeist, but with fast food.
THEY ONLY MOVED THE DRIVE-THRU! THEY ONLY MOVED THE DRIVE-THRU!
I don’t blame the earth…
Sonic is tasty
Even the CHUDs love chili-cheese tots.
Swamplands?
Cleveland GA is in the northeast corner of the state, not far from Tennessee. The terrain there is Appalachian.
My GOD – I’ve never seen so many fat, shirtless white people before in one place.
I only saw one shirtless white person, and he wasn’t fat.
You have obviously never been to Georgia. We are looking at changing our state animal to the ‘Common Bare-backed, Red-Necked Caucasian’. Note: They also come in a Tank-Topped variation.
Obviously you have never been to a tea party rally.
Obviously you haven’t either.
Go to a truck show.
No? Try Mississippi sometime.
So, you hate them because of where they live and what they look like and the fact that they had the audacity to be present at the sinkhole when the TV crew came to take footage?
Never been to a Nascar race, ey?
Would have been a bad felin’ had y’all been sittin’ on an outside table manchin on uh hamburger an fries an then it collapse underneath you.
Sonics are cursed. I remember a couple of years ago in SoCal, one opened up. A week later it burned down.
That’s horrible. I’d never go to sonic and order a sinkhole. Unless I was in florida.
Ricky Pruitt needs subtitles.
Mother Earth was hankering for a Fritos chili cheese wrap.
Can you blame her?? I’m pretty sure there’s crack sprinkled on that chili.
See Cletus, I done tol’ ya getting chili on your fries wouldn’t be a good idear!
Oh come on! All of us folks from Georgia aren’t Rednecks! Heck, I even like Doctor Who and Torchwood, that has to count for something right?
And. I say! the GROUND WILL OPEN up and take the CALORIC SINNERS to HELL!!!!
Hallelujah !!! AMEN !!!
I work just down the road from this Sonic. I estimate that I will lose about 3 pounds a week until it’s rebuilt, since I will no longer have easy access to tater tots and Limeade Chillers.
This not the first fast-food tragedy to strike Cleveland, GA – the Zaxby’s burned down a few months ago. God is trying to do something about all those fat white people you saw in the video.
I’m glad everyone got out — I’m curious how obvious it was inside that a sinkhole was forming. Did the hole form in the parking lot and come their way? Was the building shaking?
The land in that area just hasn’t been the same since they dammed the Cahulawassee River.
Damn shame. I love going to Sonic on occassion.
So much for happy hour. More like misery hour.
I’m repeating myself from the story about the McDonald’s customer shooting himself, but …..this fast food stuff is gonna’ kill all of us, one way or the other!