Found the perfect drink for your beach read?
Calling all fans of the BookTok community, SONIC is bringing in the main character energy vibes with their new lemonade lineup. The best thing about it is that they’re teaming up with your favorite authors for the launch: Christina Lauren, Abby Jimenez, and Ashley Poston! These drinks feature a craveable lineup of drinks perfect to pair with your summer novel, all while giving back to local schools.
Remember those days when you made a lemonade stand outside your house during summer breaks for extra cash? You may also remember having a crush on one of your neighbours for the summer. Talk about a summer love story! Relive those moments as SONIC drops their Sweet Topped Lemonade in three flavors! Yup, this is another summer drink to enjoy.
Check out each flavor and choose your pick:
- Sweet Topped Lemonade – This drink features a tart, all-natural lemonade that is topped with a velvety sweet foam.
- Sweet Topped Strawberry Lemonade – Just like the Sweet Topped option, this drink has an all-natural lemonade base mixed with strawberries and topped with a sweet foam.
- Sweet Topped Blueberry Lavender Lemonade – This tart, all-natural lemonade is blended with blueberry lavender flavor and topped with a cold foam, just like others.
Ready to sip on creamy lemonades? They’re dropping early at the SONIC app beginning May 27, 2025. And finally, they will be released at SONIC locations nationwide by June 2, 2025.
SONIC’s Summer Bestseller Launch
Through the partnership deal with Christina Lauren, Abby Jimenez, and Ashley Poston, they share with their fans how easy and sweet it is to support public education in their communities. The trio will be helping SONIC turn summer much more meaningful by ensuring that more students will get to access the books and resources that they need to learn.
Ashley Poston, the best-selling author of the book Sounds of Love, said that summer for her has always been synonymous with the books that are in her head. May it be audiobooks on long roadtrips, required reading, or midnight releases, Poston said that there is nothing more summer than SONIC’s Sweet Topped Classic Lemonade. Now, she can kick back in the hammock and enjoy a good romance to quench her thirst for meet-cutes and Happily Ever Afters.
Meanwhile, Abby Jimenez, the best-selling author of Say You’ll Remember Me, reflected on how her stories make her fans laugh, cry, and believe in love again. With this, the author emphasizes that the Blueberry Lavender is sweet and a bit unexpected, just like the characters that she has written. Whether you’re spending the day reading on the beach or just need a little moment of joy, this flavor will be your perfect escape.
Best-selling author Christina Lauren of The Paradise Problem added that lifelong book lovers will always jump at the opportunity to foster their love for reading. She said that since some of the best memories of summer days are spent getting lost in a book, there’s no better way to spend the summer this year than reading with a Sweet Topped Strawberry Lemonade by your side while supporting public education in our communities.
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How Lemonades Will Help Support Public Education
As part of the launch, SONIC partners up with First Book, which is a nonprofit organization that aims to remove barriers to achieving quality education in low-income communities. The partnership will distribute 100,000 books in the communities that SONIC serves. The brand and the organization both share a deep commitment to ensuring that every child has the right to access quality education.
First Book has a growing network of more than 600,000 educators and professionals who serve children who are in need. They provide high-quality and affordable resources to classrooms and programs as they believe that education transforms lives.
Stuart Brown, the Executive Director of the Inspire Brands Foundation, explained that SONIC donates a portion of every drink sold to support local schools. All Sweet Topped Lemonade purchases help local schools get the help that they need through SONIC’s Limeaids for Learning initiative. Brown added that together with the three best-selling authors, they’re making things easier for students across the country to turn a page towards a brighter future.
Through the brand’s Limeaids for Learning initiative, SONIC will donate a portion of all their Drink, Slush, Blast, and Shake sales to help support quality education. In case you don’t know, the program has donated over $30 million since 2009 to fund local classrooms. The great thing about the program is that it’s one of the largest programs that support public education in the U.S.
What’s New at SONIC?
In case you don’t know, SONIC just dropped two new menu items today, so this is your sign to head over to your nearest SONIC and try them out! The brand is surfing in the summer vibes with the comeback of their Watermelon and Lemonberry Slush and the new Cheesy Garlic Pepperoni Bites. This makes the perfect after-school or after-work snacks, so you’ll have something to look forward to!
The Watermelon and Lemonberry Slush are back for a limited time. They were last seen back in 2019 and 2020. The comeback of this refreshing summer drink has long been requested on social media. The Watermelon Slush features a burst of juicy and sweet watermelon fruit, which probably reminds fans of this drink. The fruity flavors are blended in a classic SONIC Slush. It is priced at $2.79 for a medium size. While the Lemonberry Slush has a classic SONIC Slush that is swirled with real strawberries and squeezed with real lemon. It has a starting price of $3.29 for a medium cup.
Meanwhile, the Cheesy Garlic Pepperoni Bites are making their debut at SONIC menus. It features a snack combination of melty mozzarella and provolone cheeses with pepperoni. The pepperoni from these snacks is smothered in zesty pizza sauce and wrapped in a crispy and golden brown shell. You can order them in three, five, or seven pieces starting at $2.99.
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From The Club
This is amazing news as someone who has Abby Jimenez’s Just for the Summer book on my summer reading lineup! Everything about Sonic’s promotion is close to my heart since I’m a reader and a book lover. Although I’m not much of a lemonade fan, I guess I’ll still have a cup of the Sweet Topped Strawberry Lemonade! I like the idea of a sweet cream placed on top and mixed with strawberries! Well, it looks like I’ve got a new summer love, just like in the romance novels I read. The difference? They’re in a form of creamy lemonades. 😉