This beloved family chicken chain is dropping its first new location in decades; Go for its G-Sauce in 2025
September 23, 2024 | Joyce Smith
Kansas City’s longtime favorite Go Chicken Go is expanding to the Northland — its first new location in nearly 25 years.
The former Taco Bueno lcoation at 380 N.E. Vivion Road; photo by Joyce Smith
The hometown staple — a family-owned, third generation business based in Overland Park — is taking over the former Taco Bueno freestanding building at 380 N.E. Vivion Road, for an early 2025 opening. The new Northland location will feature a drive-thru and a dining room. It also will have online ordering.
“We are incredibly grateful to Kansas City for embracing Go Chicken Go through the years,” said Alex Lowe, president of Go Chicken Go, in a statement. “Expanding into the Northland feels like the perfect next step in our journey.”
Go Chicken Go is known for its chicken with savory breading, its G-sauce (ingredients are a secret), and liver and gizzards. It also has chicken wraps, hand-breaded chicken strips and sandwiches.
For sides it has mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, baked beans, potato salad and corn on the cob. Cheesecake is the dessert.
Rendering of the new Go Chicken Go restaurant at 380 N.E. Vivion Road; image courtesy of Go Chicken Go
Photo courtesy of Go Chicken Go
“This city has supported us from Day 1, and we’re excited to continue cooking the food we love for the community that means so much to us,” said Lowe. “We look forward to bringing our passion for great fried chicken to even more of our Kansas City neighbors.”
Bill and Mary Hendrix founded Go Chicken Go in 1969 in a Seventh Street gas station in Kansas City, Kansas. It’s still there at 59 N. Seventh Street Trafficway.
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It opened at 5101 Troost Ave. in 1986, and at 1000 S. Harrison St. in Olathe in 1990. It then added two more Kansas City, Kansas, restaurants: 8017 State Avenue in 1996 and 4111 Shawnee Drive in 2000.
Startland News contributor Joyce Smith covered local restaurants and retail for nearly 40 years with The Kansas City Star. Click here to follower on X (formerly Twitter), here for Facebook, here for Instagram, and by following #joyceinkc on Threads.
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