What's the difference between a "food pantry" and a "soup kitchen"?

Question

How do these institutions work?

Answer 1

A food pantry is a "place" where individuals in a town who are receiving some type of assistance; i.e., state welfare, town/city money, food stamps, etc., come to "shop". Items are given at no cost to stock one's own pantry.

A soup kitchen is a place where one can come to get a hot meal no questions asked. A church, shelter, or other community meeting place can be site. There are places which serve meals twice a day (breakfast/lunch) Monday through Friday and sometime on the weekend. Other sites do something once a week. All sorts of scenarios that work in the area.

Answer 2

Let hope you never need a soup kitchen, This is what people call a place where you go to get soup who live on the street, Its a life line for food,

Now a food pantry is where you keep food in the old day Be for we had fridge. It was out side where it was cold

Hope this helps David B

Answer 3

Food Pantry gives you food. Soup kitchen serves you a prepared meal.

Answer 4

A food pantry is a cool cupboard in which food is stored.

A soup kitchen is a place where hot food (often soup) is doled out to the homeless and the destitute who might otherwise starve but for this charitable act by such people as the Salvation Army to name one of many who do this.

Answer 5

Food pantrys provide packets of food, tins etc for you to take away with you (usually for the homeless). Soup kitchens provide hot meals that are cooked on the premises, so slightly like a restaurant for the homeless and poor but they dont have to pay, alot of people go there maybe just to have a cup of tea and talk to others in the same situation. Hope this helped. xxxxxxxx

Answer 6

A food pantry is where you would go ":if needed" to get non-perishable food products ( rice, canned soup, pasta, etc.). A soup kitchen is where those in need can sit down and eat prepared food.

Hope this Helps
Peace

Answer 7

I've never heard of a food pantry, but a soup kitchen's rather like what the Salvation Army run - it's a hall where homeless/destitute people go to be fed en masse. Sometimes these are mobile and go to places where there's a high level of homeless people.

Answer 8

A food pantry gives out food boxes every week or month & a soup kitchen serves hot meals daily.

Answer 9

A food pantry is where families and people go to obtain free foods like pasta and canned goods that they cook for themselves. A soup kitchen is a place to go where free food is prepared to eat right then and their and provides tables and chairs for the families and people to eat at.

Answer 10

a soup kitchen is were you actually eat a hot meal food pantry is where you pick up food normally dry goods