Instead of eating at a table, you eat in your car and get **** all over your shirt.

What is the appeal?

maybe?

Maybe that's it.

It's just like going to a drive thru and eating in the car, except they make a special place for your car.

That, and because I don't want food droppings all over the upholstery and carpet.

I don't drink anything but water or gatorade in my car, either... because if you spill a soda, you're screwed. If you spill water or gatorade, when it dries it doesn't leave a sticky, smelly mess.

Usually just when I take my daughter to the bus stop in the morning.

wheel,

How stupid is that?

More important, do you have an In-N-Out within 30 miles?

Just right down the road from me is The Varsity restaurant. The downtown Atlanta location can accommodate 600 cars and over 800 people inside. On days when the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets are playing a home game, over 30,000 people visit The Varsity. For many years, it advertised itself as The World's Largest Drive-In . . .

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Shares dropped 76 cents, or 7.7 percent, to $9.11 in midday trading.

After the market closed Thursday, Sonic said its sales at stores open at least a year were worse in March and April than in the first two fiscal quarters of fiscal 2009. Same-store sales fell 3.6 percent in both quarters.

The company's third quarter ends at the end of May.

Same-store sales are a key measure of restaurant performance, because they measure growth at existing stores rather than from newly opened ones.

Morgan Keegan analyst Robert Derrington said in a note to investors that third quarter same-store sales were likely down about 4 percent. He said he had expected flat same-store sales due, partly, to aggressive promotions.

Derrington has an "Outperform" rating on the stock.

Credit Suisse analyst Keith Siegner said in a note Thursday night that the company's sales release "largely confirmed our fears" about slowing sales in the third quarter.

Siegner said the company has "struggled to convey a clear message to the consumer" and their efforts to bring in customers with a value menu and more premium products haven't had much "real success over the past year."

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