A team of three guest services crew members share responsibility for waiting tables, cleaning guest rooms, and cleaning our public spaces under the supervision of our head of housekeeping. Wait duties include set-up, waiting, and bussing tables for three meals a day. Breakfasts are served to order, so there is some order taking. Lunch and dinner are served family style so the process is more like bringing out a Thanksgiving dinner than working in a restaurant. There is a lot of interaction with the guests during meals which, we are told, is what makes this part of the job fun.
Guests have lots of stories to tell of their adventures that day.
Morning housekeeping duties between breakfast and lunch involve cleaning up the guests' rooms - making beds, cleaning bathroom sinks, toilets, tub or shower, and sweeping the floor. After lunch has been cleared, public spaces cleaning includes sweeping floors, cleaning windows of kid's cookie fingerprints, dusting, and general tidying up of our living rooms, office, and porches in the lodge. Mopping of floors, cleaning of windows from the outside, constructing fires in the first place and other duties also take place during the week as needed. Finally, when we're all caught up on our serving and cleaning duties there are tasks around the ranch that you will participate in with other crew members. For example, in the spring we prepare the gardens in and around the ranch and return occasionally to weed.