{"id":14,"date":"2009-01-28T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/an_open_letter_to_sonic\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:41:51","slug":"an_open_letter_to_sonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/an_open_letter_to_sonic\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Sonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3mtvvDQidGM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3mtvvDQidGM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br class=\"83mo462yf7ozwtd6v\"><\/p>\n<p>Dear Sonic Drive-In,<\/p>\n<p>You win! You&#8217;ve sold me. Your commercials have worked like a charm and I want nothing more than to visit any of your many locations and indulge in one of those heavenly looking milkshakes. But you know what? I can&#8217;t. Because your closest location is over 100 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>You keep taunting me with ad after ad where people banter back and forth while your food sits in their laps being taken for granted. I promise, if I&#8217;m ever lucky enough to make it to one of your locations there will be absolutely no talking until I&#8217;m washing down my second burger with an Oreo shake.<\/p>\n<p>I know your advertising is probably national, but it seems like I can&#8217;t watch anything without seeing one of your commercials. You are pretty much owning the Seattle market, and you don&#8217;t have any locations even remotely nearby. If you&#8217;re doing this to create anticipation for when a location finally arrives, then well played Sonic. And if you&#8217;re doing this so I&#8217;ll be more likely to visit you when I&#8217;m on a cross country road trip&#8211;then again&#8211;kudos to you. But sometimes I get the impression you&#8217;re only doing this to hurt me, and Sonic, that is just not fair. <\/p>\n<p>So please, I implore you, open a location somewhere within a 25 mile radius of Seattle and I promise I&#8217;ll be first in line.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely, <\/p>\n<p>A Future Loyal Customer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sonic Drive-In, You win! You&#8217;ve sold me. Your commercials have worked like a charm and I want nothing more than to visit any of your many locations and indulge in one of those heavenly looking milkshakes. But you know what? I can&#8217;t. Because your closest location is over 100 miles away. 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