Sonic Corporation
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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In 1953  was founded by Tony Smith in Shawnee, Oklahoma
under a different name of the Top Hat.  Tony Smith started the company as a
drive-in restaurant featuring hot dogs, hamburgers, and french-fried onion rings.
 In the mid-50s Smith was asked  by Charles Pappe ....          
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....  introduced the Top Hat as a drive-in restaurant that reduced
start up cost by not having eat-in space.  This new restaurant featured drive-in
stalls for automobiles, that were equipped with a two-way intercom enabling
customers to order as soon as they drove in, opposed to conventional practices
of waiting for a carhop to take an order.  Delivery of the fresh fast-quality
products was do to the unique design of the kitchen, and the use of carhops.
	Sonic Corporation preferred to do things a ....          
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