There’s a lot of folks in town who are excited about the Baylor’s new McLane Family Stadium, but for Buzzard Billy’s the new stadium is both a blessing and a curse.
“It’s been kind of hard just getting in some days,” Buzzard Billy’s manager Mike Hataway said. “But it really is getting better and better. We’re expecting big things when the stadium opens this August.”
The construction and roadwork has made it rather difficult to get over and into the Buzzard Billy’s parking lot, as the intersection at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Interstate 35 is undergoing extensive construction. If it weren’t for the paper signs that Buzzard Billy’s has posted on the metal poles and cement barricades that lead to what looks like a closed road, potential customers might not know there’s a restaurant open for business at its end.
Hataway and the staff at Buzzard Billy’s, however, have a plan for when all that construction is finally finished. Buzzard Billy’s is hiring more staff right now, and they just introduced a new menu last month that will better cater to the hundreds of football fans they expect to see on game days.
“We just rolled out the new menu, and we are planning on doing outdoor tailgates on the patio every time there’s a game,” Hataway said. “We haven’t decided what we’re going to call them, but they’re going to be fun.”
Hataway is optimistic, and for good reason. Once the new stadium opens, Buzzard Billy’s will be the closest and most easily accessible restaurant on game days. Also, a short walk from the stadium might prove to tailgaters that Buzzard Billy’s deck on the Brazos is a great place to start pre-game festivities.
For those unfamiliar with Buzzard Billy’s, they are a local restaurant that started downtown in 1993. Billy’s moved from downtown Waco to a location on the Brazos River in 2008 and have opened three other restaurants throughout the US since.
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