according to carol tannehill's column in the fort wayne news-sentinel today (2/21/06), sonic drive-in is set to open a new restaurant in april at maplecrest and rothman. normally i don't get too excited about YAFFR (yet another fast food restaurant) opening up in this franchised hellhole they call a city, but sonic's non-standard, high quality fare in the market segment coupled with the drive-in concept really stands out here. unfortunately for me, this one will be a much further drive than the one on lima road that closed down over a year ago, but again the great food makes the drive worth while.
in general, we've been starting to see more restaurants invade the area that don't follow the mcdonalds/applebees/taco bell mold but instead offer more progressive menus than we had typically seen before in this formerly meat-and-potatoes stronghold. about the lone, singular genre that had defied that convention was the locally-owned greek restaurants whose diverse fare and generous portions seem to thrive nearly anywhere they are operated.
last year we saw culver's and moe's franchises enter the area, and this year so far sonic is set to come back.... it can only make me wonder (and salivate) about what restaurants await us during the rest of the year.
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