New Emergency Kitchen Site to Open in Late September

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer

The Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen is now schedule to open in late September in the former Roy’s Diner building at 1527 South Main.

For more than 40 years, the Soup Kitchen has provided a hot meal Monday-Friday, to any in the community who are hungry, no questions asked, and had been seeking a new location for some time.

The current (old) location, which is owned by the City of Anderson, is a converted residential home, and has presented challenges for use as a the community kitchen, with seating capacity of 28. The new location offers greater potential to expand the goals of the ministry with seating for 66.

The new location will reopen for in-person dining as well when it is relaunched in late September.

The ministry was started in Grace Episcopal Church’s Gadsden house in 1982, and later moved to its current location on West Franklin Street and is supported by the Abney Foundation, the Foothills Foundation, the United Way of Anderson, Grace Episcopal church, along with donations from individuals and other churches.