This is Rough Translation from NPR. I'm Gregory Warner. From a distance you can see it the familiar golden arches

The bright yellow M floating on the roof of a building in Marseille, France on the outskirts of an immigrant neighborhood

near a cluster of housing projects in the shadow of a freeway.

It is the sort of McDonald's where until recently a

Traveler might have darted off the exit just long enough to do the drive-through and continue on their journey.

And just arriving at the McDonald's NPR's Eleanor Beardsly went to check out what this place has become. Wow.

And what she's seeing, well, it is a crowded drive-through, but not with cars.

It's full of people pushing baby carriages and carrying bags to get their supplies.

One of the volunteers here named Mohammed shows what's in these care packages that they're giving away.

Bottle of oil, some sugar, you have flour, milk, vegetables, rice. So yeah, not your typical McDonald's cuisine.

Inside the restaurant, behind the white plastic counter and the posters advertising happy meals.

A massive fat of entire chickens cooking up.

Come be and don't sit poe de poulets.

Tell us, they don't cook here on mental.

Oh my god, like 40 chickens at once she's cooking.

Oh wow. Incredible.

Huge, huge vats of couscous as well.

Without any official permission from McDonald's, this former restaurant has been occupied and repurposed as a food pantry and community hub during the pandemic.

And as Eleanor makes her way through the socially distancing, mask-wearing crowd, she keeps meeting volunteers.

There's a mother, I'm mad, who brought her son.

She said I really want him to be part of this. There were artists coming out there to sketch and draw the McDonald's.

I have free time and I want to come here because the Lombians, they drew people from all levels of society who were just attracted to this idea.

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