The largest mobile soup kitchen in America is scrambling to keep up with a 50% spike in demand

In a kitchen in Harlem, volunteers prepare vats of hot soup every evening, meant to feed hundreds of homeless people across New York City.   

Juan de la Cruz, who runs the Grand Central Food Program, helps the volunteers by preparing the soup and delivering it. Demand for the free meal has surged these days. 

“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