CATHEDRAL CITY

SONIC DRIVE-IN REOPENS

BY JACKI DEVEREAUX CATHEDRAL CITY, CA - If you like cute roller-skating waitresses at a 1960s-style drive-up fast food joint, then you'll love to know that a SONIC, America's Drive-In, has reopened for business. "We're open,? said franchise manager, Don Frederickson, looking back at the steady flow of cars with hungry patrons, parked in every herringbone stall. Sonic is located at 30-777 Date Palm Drive just north of Ramon. There were plenty of walkup customers sitting around outside tables munching on SONIC fast food in the shade. Cute wait staff roller-skated and walked orders to patrons outside. "My wife and sister are inside working with 36 employees to make this grand reopening a success,? Frederickson said. Sonic staff included traffic controllers keeping the flow of cars coordinated with the flow of work output in the kitchen. "You don't want to burn out the people in there (the kitchen), so you have to DHS own Noel Roscoe. Photo by Tom Devereaux control the flow of traffic,? he said. The cutest roller-skating waitress was a 19-year-old blonde from our own Desert Hot Springs, Noel Roscoe. Three more SONIC's are slated to open in the Coachella Valley before July 2009, he said. The first is planned for La Quinta, then Indio and Desert Hot Springs. Fredersickson said there is a lot of work to do to meet that goal but his family hopes to achieve it by the summer of 2009. The Cathedral City SONIC first opened Oct. 8, 2007. A grease fire closed it Jan. 14, 2008. The Frederickson family is determined to make their lives here a success. They originally came from Ohio, then moved west to Redding growing up in California most of their lives. Frederickson moved to the Coachella Valley after years serving for the U.S. Air Force in England. "I'm home now,? he said referring to his entire family's life back in California. SONIC, started as a hamburger and root beer stand in 1953 in Shawnee, Okla., called Top Hat Drive-In, and then changed its name to SONIC in 1959. The first drive-in to adopt the SONIC name is still serving customers in Stillwater, Okla. As the nation's largest chain of drive-in restaurants, SONIC has nearly 3,400 drive-ins coast to coast. More than a million customers eat at SON- IC every day; and with more drink combinations than any other quick-service restaurant - more than 168,894 - SON- IC is Your Ultimate Drink StopSM. For more information about Sonic Corp. and its subsidiaries, visit SONIC at www.sonicdrivein.com.

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