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Go Chicken Go at 51st & Troost is the first Missouri location (1986) of the Hendrix family’s Kansas City, Kansas fried-chicken chain, which began in 1969 when Bill and Mary Hendrix started frying chicken inside their Go Gas filling station and soon pulled out the pumps. The Troost store is a dine-in and drive-thru shop open until 11 p.m. most nights and 1 a.m. on weekends, frying never-frozen chicken in a nine-piece cut, plus the fried gizzards and livers with G-Sauce that KCUR calls the thing “you won’t see at many joints.” The Pitch’s readers made Go Chicken Go runner-up for Best Fried Chicken in 2025.

Description

The Troost shop is a standalone building with a dining room and a drive-thru at the north end of the 51st–55th Street stretch of Troost that KCUR toured in 2025 — “a legend,” in the station’s phrase: “Frying birds since 1969, you can’t really go wrong here … They’re known for their fried chicken sandwich – just lettuce, mayo and cheese. You’ll also want to grab a side of fried gizzards, something you won’t see at many joints. Trust us.”1 Reviewers describe heavy drive-thru traffic; DoorDash’s Troost listing carries a 4.3 rating over more than 15,000 orders.2

The product is the same across the chain. Chicken is never frozen and is cut nine ways rather than eight, yielding two side breasts and a center breast — “the unique center breast is a customer favorite.”3 Breading is hand-done; the house G-Sauce (sold by the bottle) goes on everything, and fried gizzards and livers are sold by the half or full order, separately or mixed.34 Feast’s Jenny Vergara, recommending it on KCUR in 2018, suggested two tenders with Go Sauce and coleslaw, mixed together; a listener the same year called it “a little bit trashy, a little bit tacky, but the fried chicken is amazingly good.”5 Sides are mashed potatoes and gravy, coleslaw, mac and cheese, baked beans, potato salad and corn; dessert is cheesecake.4

Ownership and history

Bill and Mary Hendrix ran Go Gas, a service station at 7th Street and Kansas Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, and decided to sell fried chicken inside it. The chicken, gizzards and livers outsold the fuel; the pumps came out, the name changed, and Go Gas became the first Go Chicken Go in 1969.36 That original later moved to 59 N. 7th Street at Central — see go-chicken-go-kck.37 In the 1970s the couple and their children opened two more stores, at 38th and Leavenworth Road next to the Milkhouse and in the former Dee’s Hog House in the West Bottoms; both later closed.37

In 1985 the “Hendrix Boys” — Bill, Mike and Dennis — bought the business from their parents and expanded it to five locations: 5101 Troost in 1986 (the first in Missouri), Olathe (1000 S. Harrison St.) in 1990, State Avenue in KCK in 1996 and Shawnee Drive in KCK in 2000.367 Today the company is owned by two of the brothers, Bill and Mike, with Mike’s daughter Andrea Lowe; Alex Lowe directs operations and is identified by the Kansas City Star as president. The Star and Startland describe it as a third-generation family business based in Overland Park.378 Several employees “have been with the company since the beginning.”3

The chain’s first new store in a quarter century, at 380 NE Vivion Road in the Northland, was announced in September 2024 for a former Taco Bueno and opened in 2025 as the sixth location.796 Lowe’s statement at the time: “We are incredibly grateful to Kansas City for embracing Go Chicken Go through the years. Expanding into the Northland feels like the perfect next step in our journey.”7

The space

5101 Troost sits at the north edge of the Rockhill Ridge / Troostwood blocks of the university corridor, with Rockhurst and UMKC to the south; Tripadvisor files the shop under “Rockhill.”110

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 slightly by store.4

Snack & dinner

  • 2 PC Chicken snack — mashed potatoes, 1 roll; mixed or all dark $7.59 / all breast $8.59
  • 3 PC Chicken dinner — mashed potatoes, coleslaw, 2 rolls; mixed or all dark $12.29 / all breast $13.59

Value meals (mixed chicken or strips)

  • 6 PC with 1 pint side, 4 rolls $21.99 · 9 PC with 1 pint side, 6 rolls $29.99 · 15 PC with 2 pint sides, 8 rolls $49.99 · 21 PC with 3 pint sides, 10 rolls $64.99

Chicken only

  • 9 PC — strips or mixed $22.99; all dark or no wings $23.99; all breast $26.99
  • 15 PC — $37.99 / $38.99 / $42.99 · 21 PC — $51.99 / $53.99 / $59.99

Wings & strips

  • Wings — pack (5 wings, roll) $9.99; snack (4 wings, potatoes, roll) $10.29; dinner (5 wings, potatoes, slaw, 2 rolls) $13.99
  • Strips — snack (2 strips, potatoes, roll, sauce) $8.49; dinner (3 strips, potatoes, slaw, 2 rolls, sauce) $12.29

Gizzards & livers (separate or mixed)

  • Half order with roll and sauce $7.59 · Full order with 2 rolls, 2 sauces $12.59

Sandwiches, pieces, kids

  • Chicken Wrap — sauce, lettuce, shredded cheese $4.99 · Chicken Sandwich — mayo, lettuce $4.99; with cheese $5.49
  • Individual pieces: breast $2.99 · leg or thigh $2.69 · wing $2.09 · strip $2.69 · gizzard or liver $0.50
  • Kids meal — 1 leg, potatoes, roll $4.99; 1 strip, potatoes, roll, sauce $5.49

Sides, dessert, drinks, add-ons

  • Sides (mashed potatoes & gravy, coleslaw, mac & cheese, baked beans, potato salad, corn on the cob) — individual $1.99 / pint $5.09
  • Cheesecake $2.99
  • Drinks (Pepsi products, teas, lemonade, punch, coffee, milk) — kids $1.69 / regular $1.99 / large $2.99
  • Rolls, peppers, carrots, sauce cups $0.46 · G-Sauce bottle $4.99 · gravy $1.09 individual / $2.69 pint

Sources

Footnotes

  1. “Troost Avenue restaurants: Kansas City’s best food and coffee,” KCUR, 2025-04-26. Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: Go Chicken Go at 5101 Troost “at the north end of this section of Troost”; “a legend”; “Frying birds since 1969”; chicken sandwich (lettuce, mayo, cheese); fried gizzards quote. ↩ ↩2

  2. DoorDash — “Go Chicken Go locations in Kansas City, MO.” Indexed 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Troost store rating 4.3 over 15,000+ ratings. Aggregator; used for volume only, not prices. ↩

  3. Go Chicken Go — official shop site, “Our Story.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: Go Gas at 7th & Kansas Ave; pumps removed, renamed 1969; original relocated to 7th & Central; 1970s stores at 38th & Leavenworth Rd (next to the Milkhouse) and the former Dees Hog House in the West Bottoms, both closed; 1985 purchase by Bill, Mike and Dennis Hendrix; five locations; current owners Bill and Mike Hendrix and Andrea Lowe; operations directed by Alex Lowe; never-frozen chicken; nine-piece cut and center breast; gizzards, livers, G-Sauce®; long-tenured employees. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. Go Chicken Go — official website, “Menu” (with downloadable handheld menu, August 2024). Retrieved 2026-08-28 (rendered via Firecrawl) — Confirms: every item and price in the Menu section; order-now link. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. “Food Critics: The Best Fried Chicken in Kansas City in 2018,” KCUR, 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Jenny Vergara’s two-tenders-with-Go-Sauce-and-coleslaw recommendation; listener “a little bit trashy … amazingly good” quote. ↩

  6. Go Chicken Go — official website, “About: A Kansas City Original.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 1969 opening on 7th Street KCK; 1986 first Missouri location at 5101 Troost; 1990 Olathe; 1996 State Ave; 2000 Shawnee Drive; 2025 sixth location off Vivion Road; founders Bill and Mary Hendrix; “over 50 years.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  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 (syndicated via AOL). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: founders Bill and Mary Hendrix, 1969, Go Gas at 7th & Kansas Ave; 1970s stores at 38th & Leavenworth and the West Bottoms, closed; original moved to 59 N. Seventh St.; Troost 1986, Olathe 1990, State Ave 1996, Shawnee Drive 2000; Northland at 380 N.E. Vivion Road planned early 2025; Alex Lowe as president; Lowe quotes. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. “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; five locations 1986–2000; Northland plans (former Taco Bueno, drive-thru, dining room, online ordering); the Kansas City Star’s 2018 naming of Go Chicken Go as the city’s top chicken. ↩

  9. Ivan Foley, “Go Chicken Go is coming to the Northland,” Platte County Landmark, 2024-11-06. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: six locations including 380 NE Vivion Road (former Taco Bueno, Clay County); location list with years; gizzards and G-Sauce. ↩

  10. Tripadvisor — “Go-Chicken-Go, Kansas City – Rockhill.” Indexed 2026-08-28 — Confirms: the Troost store filed under Rockhill; mixed reviews. ↩

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