The St. Anthony Foundation is a nonprofit social service organization in San Francisco, California.

[1][2][3] It was founded in 1950 by Franciscan friar Alfred Boeddeker to serve free meals to the poor in an ordinary restaurant-like setting.

The Dining Room has served as many as 2,500 plates of food a day,[4] and over thirty seven million meals since its creation.

The foundation operates a residential drug and alcohol treatment program for men, the Father Alfred Center, whose residents provide volunteer labor for the Dining Hall.

[6] Local political figures honoring the foundation include Representative Nancy Pelosi, who served the thirty five millionth meal in 2009.