 How big are they? How many locations? And let's get a stat picture of them today. Great. Yeah. Sonic is a 1950s-style drive-in restaurant. Began in the 1950s, 1953, as a matter of fact. And for the first half dozen years, it was called Top Hat. And when our founder, Troy Smith, decided to start franchising the concept, he tried to get the name Top Hat registered and was not able to.