 If you think of that food pantry at your local house of worship as a grocery store and you think of a soup kitchen as a restaurant, our core business as food banks is to be the supplier to those agency partners. Garcia says before the pandemic, the food bank conducted two mobile distributions weekly, serving about 4,000 people a month. During the pandemic, this spiked to six distributions weekly, serving 14,000 people. Heather Starr, MNC News.