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A soup kitchen, a bread line, or a meal center is a place where food
Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
 is offered to the poor
Poor

Poor is an adjective related to a state of poverty, low quality or pity.People with the surname Poor:* Charles Henry Poor, a US Navy officer...
 and homeless for free
Gratis

Gratis is the process of providing goods or services without monetary compensation. It is often referred to in English as "free of charge"....
 or at a reasonably low price
Price

Price in economics and business is the result of an exchange and from that trade we assign a numerical monetary Value to a product , Service or asset....
. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer
Volunteer

A volunteer is someone who works Community service or for the benefit of environment primarily because they choose to do so. The word comes from France, it can also be translated as "will" ....
 organizations, such as church
Church Body

A local church is a Christian religious organization made up of a congregation, its members and clergy. They are organized more or less formally, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, sometimes seek non-profit corporate status in the United States and often have state or regional structures....
 groups or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a food bank
Food bank

A food bank is a non-profit organization which distributes non-perishable goods and perishable food items to non-profit agencies involved in local emergency food programs....
 for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity
Charitable organization

The definition of charitable organization, and of charity, varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates....
.

concept of soup kitchens hit the mainstream of U.S.






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A soup kitchen, a bread line, or a meal center is a place where food
Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
 is offered to the poor
Poor

Poor is an adjective related to a state of poverty, low quality or pity.People with the surname Poor:* Charles Henry Poor, a US Navy officer...
 and homeless for free
Gratis

Gratis is the process of providing goods or services without monetary compensation. It is often referred to in English as "free of charge"....
 or at a reasonably low price
Price

Price in economics and business is the result of an exchange and from that trade we assign a numerical monetary Value to a product , Service or asset....
. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer
Volunteer

A volunteer is someone who works Community service or for the benefit of environment primarily because they choose to do so. The word comes from France, it can also be translated as "will" ....
 organizations, such as church
Church Body

A local church is a Christian religious organization made up of a congregation, its members and clergy. They are organized more or less formally, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, sometimes seek non-profit corporate status in the United States and often have state or regional structures....
 groups or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a food bank
Food bank

A food bank is a non-profit organization which distributes non-perishable goods and perishable food items to non-profit agencies involved in local emergency food programs....
 for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity
Charitable organization

The definition of charitable organization, and of charity, varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates....
.

History

The concept of soup kitchens hit the mainstream of U.S. consciousness during the Great Depression
Great Depression

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. One soup kitchen in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 was even sponsored by Italian mobster Al Capone
Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone , commonly nicknamed "Scarface", was an Italian-American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and Rum-running of alcoholic beverage and other illegal activities during the Prohibition in the United States Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
 in an effort to clean up his image. Inventor Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , Fellow of the Royal Society was an English-American physics and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics....
, contemporary to the Founding Fathers of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, is said to have invented the soup kitchen.

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