Hungarian term (edited): segélykonyha

A soup kitchen, a bread line, or a meal center is a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a reasonably low price. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church groups or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity.

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Note added at 23 mins (2009-12-21 15:18:19 GMT)
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Definicio masutt: A place where food is offered free or at very low cost to the needy.

A Merriam-Webster szerint 1831. ota letezo fogalom:
an establishment dispensing minimum dietary essentials (as soup and bread) to the needy

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-12-21 16:23:47 GMT)
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A Food and Culture Encyclopedia szerint még ennél is korábbi az eredetük, az 18oo-as évek eleje. Nem meglepő a név, hiszen eredetileg csak levest (és kenyeret) szolgáltak fel.

"Soup kitchens have been providing nourishment to the poor and hungry since at least the eighteenth century. Though no longer serving solely a fare of soup and bread, they remain an important component of private food relief three centuries later. Patterned after soup societies in Europe, soup kitchens had their genesis in the work of Count Rumford who sought to create a low-cost, nutritionally sound diet for the Bavarian military. He found that the cheapest, most savory, and nourishing food was a soup composed of pearl barley, peas, potatoes, cuttings of fine wheaten bread, vinegar, salt, and water in certain proportions. (He also made a culinary discovery: the crouton.)

Rumford's soups became famous throughout Europe. Originally they were used to feed the military but soon soup houses were established throughout Europe, England and the United States to feed the poor. In London, as many as sixty thousand people were fed daily from Rumford's soup kitchens. The Humane Society of New York City founded one of the earliest soup kitchens in the United States in 1802. Typical of soup kitchens in its day, the Society printed soup tickets that both public and private organizations purchased and distributed to the poor."