Behind a faded door, in a side-street near Montmartre, a long straggly queue is starting to form. In Paris under lockdown, hotels and restaurants may be deserted but food banks are getting busier, reports BBC News.
Women with pushchairs, men with umbrellas, everyone a metre apart; there's very little talking.
The government will set out on Thursday how it plans to lift restrictions on movement on Monday. But for many the damage from one of Europe's strictest lockdowns has been done.
This centre, one of a network run by the charity Les Restos du Coeur ('restaurants of the heart'), saw a 40% rise in subscriptions last week.
Director François Coadour expects the numbers to keep rising and says the profile of his clients is changing.
"We have workers, precarious workers, people who were moonlighting, and part-time workers," he told me. "These are people we didn't see before."
Clients here used to choose their own food from the shelves inside the centre; now they're simply handed a bag of goods through an open door.
I meet a young woman waiting in the queue, who introduces herself as Madame Ouattara.
Even behind her mask, her face wears a gentle smile. She tells me she began coming here last month after the lockdown left her husband out of work. They ate through their savings in weeks.