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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Kettering restaurant opens with scaled-back hours
The new Sonic restaurant that we told you about last month in an entry entitled Kettering latest to feel the Sonic boom has indeed opened, although with one significant change: It is not open 24 hours as restaurant officials suggested a month ago it would be.
“We did scale back the hours,” Chris Heitz, district manager for Houchens Industries, said in an email. Bowling Green, KY-based Houchens is the franchisee that is more than halfway toward its goal of putting up 29 Sonic Drive-In restaurants in the Dayton area. Next up is Sidney, followed by Huber Heights (7888 Brandt Pike).
The new Kettering Sonic, located at 2890 Wilmington Pike, just north of East Dorothy Lane at the site of a former White Castle restaurant, is open until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and until midnight the rest of the week, Heitz said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony with city officials is scheduled for May 20, he said.
The email didn’t explain the late change of heart from the initial promise of a 24/7 restaurant, but I’d have to think a bit of sanity prevailed. How much sales would the restaurant have in the middle of the night? And would you want to wait on the kinds of customers who would come careening in at 3 a.m. on a Friday and Saturday?
The Kettering Sonic’s phone number is (937) 938-9900.
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