Thanksgiving Day at Jubilee Soup Kitchen was like any other day for many folks.

Every day of the year, Jubilee serves breakfast and lunch to its guests, many of whom have been coming for decades.

“The people that come in, you don’t know when their last meal was,” Heather Rizzo said.

Ms. Rizzo, Jubilee’s kitchen manager, knew what it was like on the other side of the serving line. As a pregnant mother of two in an abusive environment 30 years ago, Jubilee’s resources were a refuge, and then, eventually, a career.

In January, it will be 29 years since she joined Jubilee as an employee — first in its day care services next door, teaching children to use computers, and then as a receptionist in its medical clinic until about seven years ago, when she became head of the kitchen. She’s a “ja

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