Anderson Soup Kitchen Reopens at New Location

Observer Reports

The Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen reopened this week at former Roy’s Diner location on South Main Street.

The kitchen now offers a free, hot lunch, no questions asked, with on-site dining Monday-Friday from 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Meals to go are also available.

The mission is the kitchen is to help address the food insecurity needs of the area with meals provided through the support of local agencies and individuals, including the Abney Foundation, the Foothills Foundation, the United Way of Anderson and Grace Episcopal church. In South Carolina, food security averages 12.60 percent, making the state the 8th-hungriest, with a food insecurity rate 18 percent higher than the national average of 10.4 percent.

The Soup Kitchen was started in Grace Episcopal Church’s Gadsden house in 1982, and later moved to its location owned by the City of Anderson on West Franklin Street.

Board members of the Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen said the new location offers greater potential to meet the goals of the ministry.