Sonic plans moving forward

January 16th, 2009 at 10:56am Sean Driscoll

Plans to put a Sonic drive-in restaurant near the Cherry Valley Menards store are moving foward. Village President Jim Claeyssen said the platting of the land has been approved by the village board and the final design should be available for the Planning and Development Committee’s OK in February.

“It’s a big win for us,” he said. “Obviously because of the economy, but we’ll also have the first Sonic in the Rock River Valley.”

Sonic is the country’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants,  serving more than a million people a day at 32,000 locations in the United States and Mexico. The average store does a little over $1 million in sales a year, based on 2006 figures, according to the company.

The location is being developed by Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Mason, Harrison and Ratliff. Karen Hall, marketing manager, said the company plans to open the location in mid-to-late summer.

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