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The following is a copy of what was written in the original Bucky’s brochure in April of 1999
People are always asking, what made you get into the restaurant business? The answer is simple. “I enjoy seeing people happy and satisfied.” I admit that with a background in metal fabrication and woodworking, I am an unlikely prospect for the most likely to succeed in the restaurant industry award.
I do have a few early years experience in the food industry. As I was growing up my dad owned and operated a meat packing plant. I was in and out of restaurants and meat plants for most of my first 20 years of life. I remember visiting the old Ballentine Packing Plant in downtown Greenville, SC. As a small boy (well maybe not small) I would watch how they would hit the cow over the head with a big hammer. This would stun him and then they would hang him up for slaughter. Can you imagine a slaughter house just off main street Greenville today?
Although I never worked in a restaurant, I did have some special preparation for this restaurant job, I loved to eat! I guess maybe I learned to cook so I could eat anything and anytime I wanted.
Sometime around 1983 I found I had time to take on a volunteer cooking job for a local church. I prepared Wednesday night suppers for about 100-150 people. This really gave me a huge amount of satisfaction as well as preparing me for what God had in store for me a few years later.
Boom! One day here we are with the power bill due and me short on cash. I had to do something so I set up a table on the side of the road and sold barbecue to everyone who would stop. All of a sudden I was feeding about 80 people every Friday at lunch. Hot weather set in and I had to keep people cool, so I moved inside. Now here I am. Bucky’s Bar-B-Q became reality.
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