There was a time when I would have been self-conscious about walking into the Bill Daniel Student Center at Baylor to eat lunch.
That time, perhaps, was as recently as earlier this year before a friend who worked at Baylor insisted we eat in one of the dining halls. I suppose that helped me to discover that no one really sticks out like a sore thumb in those places simply because everyone sticks out like a sore thumb in those places.
Seriously, is there a better place in the world to people watch than a college campus? Particularly Baylor?
At any rate, I ventured into the Baylor student center again today to grab some lunch from Mooyah.
Mooyah is new to Waco. It opened this summer in the Baylor student center at roughly the same moment as Einstein Bros, though to less fanfare as far as I could tell.
What else can I tell you about Mooyah? It's burgers. It's a chain burger that's pretty good. Go see for yourself. The chocolate milk shake I had wasn't bad either.
But the greatness of today came not from the burger or the shake, but from the ample visitor parking, the walk to the student center and the fantastic 15 minutes I spent eating my lunch while sitting on a wall just outside the Baylor student center.
I wrote on Friday that I believe Labor Day to be the end of summer. At the time, I stated that I would be delusional to expect the hot weather to exit stage left upon the arrival of Labor Day. But you know what happened? It kind of did.
And so I ate a beef and cheddar burger and slurped on a chocolate shake while staring at blue skies and green grass and never once longing to find some air conditioning.
Oh yeah, the other cool thing about Mooyah was the ordering process. They have two computer terminals set up, so you go through the menu and essentially build your burger.
For example, instead of telling someone that I don't want lettuce (I never want lettuce; it just gets in the way), instead I select the vegetables I DO want. This turns out to be tomatoes and pickles. I never thought of the list being that short. But I didn't want onions and I wasn't feeling jalapeños or mushrooms today, though those are both possibilities for the future.
I think these computer terminals even have the ability to save your past orders, but with technology I choose to wade in slowly. Like I said, go see for yourself.
