The largest mobile soup kitchen in America is scrambling to keep up with a 50% spike in demand
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The food program has become vital as more than half a million New Yorkers have lost their jobs during the lockdown. "We went probably from serving 720 meals to overnight having to get over 1,100 meals," said de la Cruz, the program director of the Grand Central Food Program.
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