Big Momma&rsquo;s Bakery-Cafe has found success at its downtown Kansas City location. </p><p>Business is rising, just like the rolls baked fresh daily. </p><p>Two sisters, Jackie Buycks and Joyce Brown, relocated Big Momma&rsquo;s from Raytown to Crown Center in July. They will have an open house there from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 6.</p><p> &ldquo;Business has picked up considerably,&rdquo; Buycks said recently. </p><p>Crown Center officials wooed the sisters. Earlier this year, officials with Hallmark Cards and Crown Center dropped in for lunch at the former location in Raytown.</p><p>Brown remembers the initial conversation. </p><p>&ldquo;One of them stopped me and said, &lsquo;We were sent here to get you,&rsquo;&ensp;&rdquo; Brown recalled. &ldquo;It was flattering. We didn&rsquo;t know what to think of it.&rdquo; </p><p>The offer to move came at a pivotal time. Their business was struggling to stay open. </p><p>&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t afford to keep it up anymore,&rdquo; Brown said. &ldquo;Then they came along. It&rsquo;s like a Cinderella story.&rdquo; </p><p>The move had a major bonus. The location at Crown Center comes complete with a large kitchen behind Sheridan&rsquo;s Lattes & Frozen Custard. </p><p>&ldquo;The kitchen has everything a baker could dream of,&rdquo; Buycks said. &ldquo;It has a huge mixer. It has a walk-in refrigerator. It has a walk-in oven. We can do 10 times as much.&rdquo; </p><p>Big Momma&rsquo;s staff has grown to 10 workers. Lois Whitney, mother to Buycks and Brown, works from 4 to 8 a.m. preparing the food for the next day. </p><p>&ldquo;Then she gives out samples,&rdquo; Buycks said. &ldquo;She hugs people. People really love her.&rdquo; </p><p>The business is named after a family friend named Luticia Boyd, who was known as Big Momma. Boyd couldn&rsquo;t afford to buy treats. So she began making bread dough into cinnamon rolls. </p><p>&ldquo;We just enhanced the product,&rdquo; Brown said. &ldquo;We added our own touch to the ingredients. We kind of made it our own.&rdquo; </p><p>Today the cinnamon and dinner rolls have become signature items. But they also serve lunch and breakfast and sell cakes and cookies. Their busy season is almost at hand. Last year, Big Momma&rsquo;s sold 1,500 dozen dinner rolls during the Thanksgiving season. The deadline for orders this year is Nov. 14. </p><p>&ldquo;We know we&rsquo;ll do twice that this year,&rdquo; Buycks said. &ldquo;People need to put their orders in now.&rdquo; </p><p>Eventually, Buycks and Brown hopes to package and sell a product, perhaps their dinner rolls, to grocery stores. </p><p>&ldquo;We want to mass-produce,&rdquo; Buycks said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s our whole goal.&rdquo; </p><p>Don&rsquo;t bet against Buycks and Brown reaching that goal. They have a solid product that&rsquo;s well received by the public. As a result, expect to see their business around Kansas City for a very long time.