Jake’s Diner

Specialties

Breakfast is our specialty but we are a full service diner serving all meals. We have won many awards including Best Breakfast, Business of Year, Red Cross Heroes award, and Locals Choice amongst others. We are also well known for our Burgers, Sandwiches, and the Richest Milkshakes in town (using real Ice Cream and Whole Milk. We are a local Mom and Pop who gives back generously to the community that keeps it alive.

History

Established in 1987.

In 1987, Jake Wolfe reopened his truck stop restaurant and named it Jake’s Diner. Lyle Hicks, who had run the original restaurant for five years, continued to manage the new diner and watch it grow. In 2004, the Wolfe family decided to sell the truck stop that housed the diner. They gave Lyle the name and sold him the equipment and supplies. Lyle arranged with the new owners to lease the building for six months.

Lyle and his wife, Judy, reopened Jake’s four days after the sale with nearly all of the original crew. Four months later, they discovered a building in Bend’s eastside that was large enough and affordable and purchased the small Thai restaurant that it housed. Two months later, at the beginning of April 2005, Lyle, Judy, and crew along with members of the Hicks’ church moved the diner to it’s new home using pickups and trailers. On April 15, 2005, Jake’s Diner reopened on Bend’s eastside.

Since the reopening, the Hicks have seen Jake’s Diner flourish in it’s new location wit

Meet the Business Owner

Lyle H.

Business Owner

I never started off attempting to be a restaurant owner. Like many other things in life, I didnt choose it, it chose me. I don’t regret that, it is just a fact. I am a native Central Oregonian, born on hospital hill in Bend and raised in Gilchrist just 50 miles south of here. After graduating high school, I joined the Navy and saw many places in the world while living a short time in San Diego and Brisbane Australia, I returned to Bend in the hard times of the early 80’s with my small family and began college at COCC while working at Jake’s Truck Stop in it’s early years. After 23 successful years of management, I had the rug pulled out from underneath me, when the Truck Stop was sold. I bartered everything that I owned to keep the business open. Six months later, I found myself moving the diner to the only place in town that fit us and that we could afford. I now spend most of my time running that business and attempting to give back to the community that allowed it to survive.