“After she left, I asked, ‘Dad, why'd you do that?’ He just said, ‘RF, when you're in this business, it's your moral obligation to make sure no one goes hungry.’ I've never forgotten that,” said RF. GF Buche Company has always been big supporters of the communities they’ve been in, whether it was through the school, ball teams, or simply helping others out. When he was younger working for the family business, RF says he and his dad would make a big deal out of their anniversary sale and would go and have coffee at each of the locations, giving out cake and ice cream or a hot dog and Coca-Cola . “It was crazy the amount of people that used to come up to me and tell me, ‘I didn't have enough money for a dress, but your grandpa bought one for me,’ or, ‘He loaned me the money to get a pair of shoes,’ or whatever the case may be,” he reminisced. Fast forward to 2000, and RF was in charge of the Wagner location. One day his father called a manager’s meeting in Mission, where he made a bombshell statement. He said, “There comes a time in everybody's life when you know you're not the best man for the job anymore, and today's that day for me.”
“It certainly affects me. There's sad things that go on all the time out here.” RF Buche
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