People can choose from the buffet to fill up their take-out box. The to-go meals run from $4.75 to $10.95 per pound, depending on whether it includes seafood, hibachi items or sushi.

Bring Las Vegas to Kansas City: It wasn’t Carroll’s initial goal when he opened the Gold Buffet at 503 E. 18th Ave., but more than a decade in, that’s exactly what he did.