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In 1973 ten principal franchise owners purchased Sonic from Smith and restructured the company into Sonic Systems of America, later Sonic Industries, headquartered in Oklahoma City. Sonic offered each franchisee the option to buy 1,250 shares of stock at one dollar per share. When the first Sonic television advertisement aired in 1977, more than eight hundred drive-ins operated in thirteen southern and southwestern states.During the 1980s the company became a collection of independent Sonics rather than a cohesive chain. Menus differed from store to store. Slaw dogs were served in the Carolinas, and deep-fried “pickle-o’s” were offered in Oklahoma. Clifford Hudson, who became president and chief executive officer of Sonic Industries in 1995, launched the stock publicly. Sonic 2000, a five-year plan, unified the company with a consistent menu, brand identity, service, and a national purchasing cooperative and advertising program. The new “retro-future” Sonic logo was introduced, and the new menu offered breakfast items and “frozen favorites.”

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The two-thousandth Sonic Drive-In opened in Oklahoma City in 1999, and the company reached $2 billion in sales in 2001. As the company employed sixty thousand teenagers, the Sonic carhop was named one of Teen People magazine’s “Top 10 Jobs That Rock” in 2001. In October 2003 Forbes named Sonic one of the “200 Best Small Companies in America” for the tenth consecutive year, and Entrepreneur ranked Sonic as a top franchise opportunity in the United States. In 2003 Sonic celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and every Oklahoma town with a population of more than four thousand had “America’s Drive-In.” At the turn of twenty-first century Sonic’s new headquarters building was constructed near the Bricktown canal in downtown Oklahoma City. In 2018 Inspire Brands acquired Sonic.