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Go Chicken Go’s 7th Street store at 59 N. 7th Street in downtown Kansas City, Kansas is the company’s original location — the successor to the Go Gas filling station at 7th & Kansas Avenue where Bill and Mary Hendrix started frying chicken in 1969 and soon pulled out the pumps. It is a carryout-and-delivery shop (no dining room) open until 11 p.m. nightly and 1 a.m. on weekends, frying the same never-frozen nine-piece chicken, gizzards, livers and G-Sauce as the five stores that grew from it. The Hendrix family’s third generation still owns the company.

Description

The 7th Street shop is the smallest format in the chain — carryout and delivery, no dining room or drive-thru — on the 7th Street Trafficway a block north of Minnesota Avenue in downtown KCK, across from the 7th Street Casino block.1 A local food writer who had worked at a gas station across the street from the original recalled watching “steady customer traffic for decades.”2 KCUR’s Shannon Carpenter, recommending Go Chicken Go in 2025, specifically named “the Kansas City, Kansas franchise,” which “easily satisfies everyone, and has gained a cult following over their 50 years.”3

What it sells is the company standard: chicken that is never frozen, cut nine ways to yield two side breasts and a center breast (“a customer favorite”), hand-breaded and fried; fried gizzards and livers by the half or full order; the house G-Sauce; strips, wings, a $4.99 chicken sandwich and wrap; and mashed potatoes and gravy, coleslaw, mac and cheese, baked beans, potato salad and corn.45 Feast’s Jenny Vergara’s 2018 order — two tenders with Go Sauce and coleslaw, mixed together — still works from the same menu.6

Ownership and history

Bill and Mary Hendrix operated Go Gas, a service station at 7th Street and Kansas Avenue, and “thought it would be a good idea to start selling fried chicken inside the gas station.” The chicken, gizzards and livers “soon became a huge hit and the gas pumps were removed, the name was changed, and Go Gas became the first Go Chicken Go in 1969.”4 The Kansas City Star’s 2024 telling adds that it “took off so fast that they pulled out the gas pumps.”7 The store was later moved a few blocks north to the present building at 7th and Central — 59 N. 7th Street; a 2017 blog account places the move in the early 1970s, which the company has not dated.42

Through the 1970s Bill and Mary, with their children, opened two more Go Chicken Gos in KCK — at 38th and Leavenworth Road next to the Milkhouse, and in the former Dee’s Hog House in the West Bottoms; both later closed.47 In 1985 sons Bill, Mike and Dennis Hendrix bought the company from their parents and, over fifteen years, built it to five stores: 5101 Troost (1986), Olathe (1990), 8017 State Avenue in KCK (1996) and 4111 Shawnee Drive in KCK (2000).487 The company today is owned by Bill and Mike Hendrix and Mike’s daughter Andrea Lowe, with Alex Lowe as president directing operations from an Overland Park office; family members manage individual stores, and several employees date to the company’s beginning.479 A sixth store, at 380 NE Vivion Road in the Northland, opened in 2025 — the first new location in 25 years.8710

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the company’s own menu page (gochickengo.com/menu, with a printable handheld menu dated August 2024) · Confidence: High for items; prices are chain-wide and may differ by store.5 The full transcription is on go-chicken-go-troost; headline prices:

  • 2 PC snack (potatoes, roll) $7.59 mixed/dark, $8.59 all breast · 3 PC dinner (potatoes, slaw, 2 rolls) $12.29 / $13.59
  • Value meals — 6 PC $21.99 · 9 PC $29.99 · 15 PC $49.99 · 21 PC $64.99 (with pint sides and rolls)
  • Chicken only — 9 PC from $22.99 · 15 PC from $37.99 · 21 PC from $51.99
  • Wings pack $9.99 / snack $10.29 / dinner $13.99 · Strips snack $8.49 / dinner $12.29
  • Gizzards & livers — half $7.59 · full $12.59
  • Chicken Sandwich $4.99 (with cheese $5.49) · Chicken Wrap $4.99 · pieces $0.50–2.99 · kids meals $4.99–5.49
  • Sides $1.99 / pint $5.09 · Cheesecake $2.99 · drinks $1.69–2.99 · G-Sauce bottle $4.99

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Go Chicken Go — official website, “Locations.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 7th Street (original): 59 N 7th St, Kansas City, KS 66101; (913) 342-4616; carry out and delivery; hours Mon–Thu 10–11, Fri–Sat 10–1 a.m., Sun 10–11; all six locations. ↩

  2. “Savoring Fried Chicken Bliss at Go Chicken Go,” Our Changing Lives (blog), 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Go Gas origin; rename 1969; relocation to 59 N. 7th Street “early 1970s”; 1985 sale to the sons; author’s recollection of steady traffic from a gas station across the street. Blog; the relocation date is provisional. ↩ ↩2

  3. “Kansas City’s best fried chicken, wings and more,” KCUR Up To Date, 2025-06-21. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Shannon Carpenter’s “Kansas City, Kansas, franchise … cult following over their 50 years.” ↩

  4. Go Chicken Go — official shop site, “Our Story.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: Go Gas at 7th & Kansas Ave; quoted origin story; original “later relocated to the existing restaurant at 7th and Central”; 1970s stores (38th & Leavenworth Rd next to the Milkhouse; former Dees Hog House, West Bottoms) closed; 1985 purchase by Bill, Mike and Dennis; current owners Bill and Mike Hendrix and Andrea Lowe; Alex Lowe directs operations; family managers; long-tenured employees; never-frozen, nine-piece cut, center breast, gizzards/livers, G-Sauce®. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. Go Chicken Go — official website, “Menu” (with handheld menu, August 2024). Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: every item and price cited. ↩ ↩2

  6. “Food Critics: The Best Fried Chicken in Kansas City in 2018,” KCUR, 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Jenny Vergara’s tenders-with-Go-Sauce-and-slaw recommendation. ↩

  7. David Hudnall, “For the first time in 25 years, KC fried chicken restaurant will open a new location,” The Kansas City Star, 2024-09-23 (via AOL). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Go Gas at 7th & Kansas Ave, 1969; pumps pulled; original moved to 59 N. Seventh St.; 1970s stores closed; location timeline 1986–2000; Northland 2025; Alex Lowe, president. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. Go Chicken Go — official website, “About: A Kansas City Original.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 1969 opening on 7th Street KCK; 1986 Troost; 1990 Olathe; 1996 State Ave; 2000 Shawnee Drive; 2025 Vivion Road; founders Bill and Mary Hendrix. ↩ ↩2

  9. “This beloved family chicken chain is dropping its first new location in decades; Go for its G-Sauce in 2025,” Startland News, 2024-09. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: third-generation family business based in Overland Park; Northland plans; Star’s 2018 top-chicken nod. ↩

  10. Ivan Foley, “Go Chicken Go is coming to the Northland,” Platte County Landmark, 2024-11-06. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: original 1969 at 7th & Kansas Ave inside Go Gas; relocated original at 59 N. Seventh St.; six locations. ↩

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