Tift Area Soup Kitchen

02/17/2026

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11/27/2025

11/27/2025

We will be serving Thanksgiving plates at the Tift Area Soup Kitchen from 11:30 am til 12:30 pm or until all gone. Praying that everyone come gets a plate. See you there 2737 South Central Ave Tifton Ga. 31794.

06/02/2025

--- Did You Know? ---
Admission for Our Southeast Fandom Fair - 2025 (A Community Event) will be 5 Non-perishable Food Items per person = 7 years of Age & Up
& If you bring an extra 5 Non-perishable Food Items on top of your Admission you will receive a Mystery "Thank You For Your Support" Gift from us here at The Zone Collectibles & More at The Door The Day of The Event. How cool 😎 is that.
Kids 6 years of age and lower accompanied by an adult gets in Free (No Items Needed To Enter).. Food Admission will be donated to Tift Area Soup Kitchen And Hope Dealers Street Outreach ..We will also have Silent Auctions to benefit both Friends of Tift County Animal Shelter and Tift Animal Rescue Inc.
---Remember to make your calendars 📅 Saturday Sept. 6th from 10-8pm at Chino & Letty's Place if you want to support these amazing community organizations while having some Good Old Family Pop Culture Southeast Fandom Fair Fun.


Think Tifton , City of Tifton , Downtown Tifton
.. Our Event is like no other for our Downtown Tifton Community. It's Sponsored by Local Businesses (The Zone Collectibles and More & Golden Corral Buffet & Grill , The Downtown Tifton Mainstreet Office, and Artist Fox Foot Crafts so far. Spotlight Media GA has booked and paid for the venue for this Community Event. .. It has been created by Our Community, for Our Community, to benefit Our Community and How Cool 😎 is that.

06/02/2025

Add This Date To Your Calendar September 6, 2025 from 10:00 am

--- Did You Know? ---
Admission for Our Southeast Fandom Fair - 2025 (A Community Event) will be 5 Non-perishable Food Items per person = 7 years of Age & Up
& If you bring an extra 5 Non-perishable Food Items on top of your Admission you will receive a Mystery "Thank You For Your Support" Gift from us here at The Zone Collectibles & More at The Door The Day of The Event. How cool 😎 is that.
Kids 6 years of age and lower accompanied by an adult gets in Free (No Items Needed To Enter).. Food Admission will be donated to Tift Area Soup Kitchen And Hope Dealers Street Outreach ..We will also have Silent Auctions to benefit both Friends of Tift County Animal Shelter and Tift Animal Rescue Inc.
---Remember to make your calendars 📅 Saturday Sept. 6th from 10-8pm at Chino & Letty's Place if you want to support these amazing community organizations while having some Good Old Family Pop Culture Southeast Fandom Fair Fun.


Think Tifton , City of Tifton , Downtown Tifton
.. Our Event is like no other for our Downtown Tifton Community. It's Sponsored by Local Businesses (The Zone Collectibles and More & Golden Corral Buffet & Grill , The Downtown Tifton Mainstreet Office, and Artist Fox Foot Crafts so far. Spotlight Media GA has booked and paid for the venue for this Community Event. .. It has been created by Our Community, for Our Community, to benefit Our Community and How Cool 😎 is that.

12/27/2024

We at The Tift Area Soup Kitchen would like to give thanks to every Business, Church’s, Individuals and of course United Way who poured into the help we need to make 2024 a prosperous year of giving to the community and also would like to give thanks to all of our volunteers who gave their time and hard work. We praying that 2025 brings more and better blessings to share with the community. We are looking forward to seeing a greater future in the years to come, more Love, Peace and Joy.

12/22/2024

Golden Corral will be at the Tift Area Soup Kitchen tomorrow, Monday, December 23rd. You are welcome to join us for our Christmas lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

12/04/2024

***An Awesome Update ***
This past week while we were on Our Thanksgiving Hiatus was amazing for Our Zone/Slentz Community Outreach Program- Operation Happy Hallothanksmas. We made deliveries to kids all over South GA. We delivered just under 1,000 unwrapped toys to a bunch of very deserving Kids who's families were in need of a hand up or who had lost everything from The Storm. It was heartwarming to see the smiles on their faces while feeling the hope in their hearts. It was a long process but it was so worth it. We also delivered over 500 kids books this past week as well. ..We are not done yet but in fact just getting started for this Holiday Season. So many lost so much that we will work right upto Christmas to but as much Christmas Magic in those kids hearts who have been handed a raw deal this year. .. Through The Zone/Slentz Community Outreach Program we helped donate and served right around 150 Thanksgiving Meals at Tift Area Soup Kitchen in conjunction with Golden Corral Buffet & Grill . We have one more meal planned with them for Christmas with an added surprise... As far as The Zone Collectibles & More goes we filled just over 100 wholesale orders, 100 customer on-line orders, plus still managed to buy a few collections of Comics and toys along the way while doing a few Pop-up Shops as Charity Fundraisers through our Kool Cat Collectibles ... Today we worked all day at The Zone Restocking and Refreshing The Sales Floor. I can honestly say that when we Reopen this Wednesday The Zone will be as stocked as we have ever had it with the most variety of merchandise that we have ever had...We currently support over 300 fandoms through many different genres. Tomorrow we will be working in The Back Rooms getting ready for these last few weeks or Christmas Chaos. You know what we mean. LOL..We also want to Thank Everyone for your support and understanding while we are working to keep The Zone filled for your Holiday Shopping Needs while making time to support not only our community but those in need all over South GA. It is only with your support we can do what we do... Together we all have accomplished more than any one of us could have alone by ourselves. There is strength in numbers and we have the best customers, affiliates, business partners, plus friends in South GA and beyond... Nerd Up, Geek Out, and have a Zonetastic Evening. We will Reopen this Wednesday at 10am for all your collectible, gaming, and nerdy nostalgic needs.

12/01/2024

The Tift Area Soup Kitchen would like to give thanks to all who have helped us keep the soup kitchen going and operating, we have had some tough times but God has blessed us to continue to help feed the people with the help of our supporters, Peanut Butter & Jesus of Tifton Ga., Stafford of Tifton Ga., Target Distribution Center Tifton Ga., Ameris Bank of Tifton Ga., Tift Regional Hospital Tifton Ga., Golden Corral Tifton Ga., Publix Tifton Ga., Burger King Tifton Ga. and many more. We want to thank everyone for helping support our community where it is very much needed.

12/01/2024

Popular steakhouse donates food to area nonprofits

By Zachary Logan
Updated: Nov. 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM EST

Chris Miller, Tifton LongHorn Steakhouse Managing Partner (Source: WALB)

Val Vanags, Board President of the Tiftarea Soup Kitchen (Source: WALB)

At the end of the day, the restaurant ends up with unused food (Source: WALB)
At the end of the day, the restaurant ends up with unused food (Source: WALB)
In Tifton, the food is donated to the Tiftarea Soup Kitchen (Source: WALB)
In Tifton, the food is donated to the Tiftarea Soup Kitchen (Source: WALB)
TIFTON, GA (WALB) - For most of us, finding a meal isn't an issue, but it can be a big problem for others.

LongHorn Steakhouse said it's doing what it can to help fight the hunger issue, by donating unused food through its 'Harvest' program.

Since the program started in 2004, LongHorn restaurants have donated more than 100 million pounds of food to area nonprofits.

Chris Miller Managing Director for the Tifton LongHorn said it's typical for his restaurant to end up with unused food at the end of the day. So each week his staff takes items like steak, sweet potatoes, baked potatoes, soup, and vegetables, and donates the fresh food to the Tiftarea Soup Kitchen.

"It really is heartwarming for me and for my team. They really embrace it to try and make sure we positively impact the community," Miller said.

Tiftarea Soup Kitchen Board President Val Vanags said he appreciated the food coming from the restaurant.

"We live on donations here at the soup kitchen. We get donations from churches, individuals, and businesses," Vanags said.

Last year, the soup kitchen served 18,000 people. According to the board president, the soup kitchen serves anywhere from 50 to 100 guests daily.

The soup kitchen uses the items from LongHorn to prepare dishes, like beef stew and sweet potato pie.