Spend your summer working at the lake in beautiful central Oregon!

Posted: Jun 11, 2026

Server

East Lake Resort

Lapine, Oregon

Wages/Pay
$15.55 / hour + tips
Experience Level
Some experience required
Job Start Date
Jun 19, 2026

SERVER w/ a great customer focused and laid back attitude wanted!

If you love outdoor activities and want to spend your summer in the mountains AND on a lake - we're the place for you! We're looking for adventurous, hardworking and fun staff to complete our restaurant team this year. Come join us at one of Central Oregon's best kept secrets and see what it's really like to work with some of the best people around.

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation 

  • Housing and Shift Meals 

  • Opportunities for adventure as we are in the center of America's Playground

  • Gain really valuable and unique employment and leadership experience. We ask that you work hard, but we do everything we can to help and make your experience with us the best it can be. We truly are employee focused.

  • Connect with other like-minded individuals (employees and guests). Everyone walks away at the end of the summer with new friends for life 

  • Free boat rentals

  • 20% off anything in the store 


 

Responsibilities of the server:

  • Provide the most friendly high-quality service to all our guests 

  • Complete all necessary set up, side work, and closing duties as assigned

  • Check restaurant before, after, and during shift for cleanliness 

  • Be knowledgeable of all menu items

  • Know any daily features and specials the restaurant is offering

  • Check the  food presentation before taking it to the guest. We  have to make sure it's correct and hot the first time

  • Help wash dishes throughout the shift if it's a slow time and it's needed

  • Teamwork, Teamwork, Teamwork

  • Responsible for the making of deserts and salads 

  • Any other reasonable duties required

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Pay includes a base salary of 15.55hr which is paid out bi-weekly. Cash tips are kept by the server at night and credit tips go on the paycheck.

Hours for the restaurant are 1130am until 7pm. Shifts are from 11am until we finish cleaning after closing, usually around 8pm. 

Housing is in one of our RVs in the RV park, $300 a month to stay in but it includes water, electric, sewer and internet.

If you have a RV, we have some employee sites as well, but those are 100 dollars a month to stay in. 

Coin laundry is available onsite

A car is required. We are about 25 minutes from the nearest town

Full season availability is a must at this time, June through the end of September.

How to Apply

Email us at chris.eastlakeresort@gmail.com with a resume, and we'll be in touch shortly!

Please note: East Lake Resort Does Not Sponsor J-1 or H2B Visas*


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Contact Info

East Lake Resort

East Lake Resort is a small lake-side resort in the middle of the Newberry National Monument. We are well known for fishing but recreation abounds in the area including mountain biking, hiking and bird watching. We are a family run resort and living our lifelong dream of running a "fish-camp". East Lake Resort was born in 1915 on the top of a hot spring that still flows today.

Location
Oregon
Season
Summer
Staff size
20
Housing
Whether included in the compensation package or provided at a cost, housing is provided for staff.
Single occupancy housing available
Yes
Pet friendly
Yes
Meals
Some meals / discounts
Cell phone service
None
Internet access
Good
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