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Shuttered restaurants in New York City are being offered a lifeline.

Rethink Food, a local nonprofit, will begin offering eateries $40,000 grants each to stay open and produce subsidized food which can be purchased by New Yorkers in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

All restaurants and bars have been closed since Monday as part of a nationwide effort to halt the spread of the deadly virus.

“It’s basically our way of troubleshooting what is needed from a culinary standpoint right now,” Rethink executive director Meg Savage told The Post. “It is at no cost to whoever is looking to dine. There is a suggested donation of $5, but if you can’t pay it, you’re still going to get a meal.”

The restaurant response program has enough cash on hand to expand to up to 30 restaurants in the Big Apple — and is taking applications from interested eateries via an online application. It’s already fielded more than 60 inquiries.

In addition to feeding the needy, Savage said she believed the program would likely save 150 restaurant jobs.

At Little Tong Noodle Shop in the East Village, which teamed up with Rethink this week, interested passersby could stop in for a bowl of spicy dan dan ground pork ragu with marinated cabbage over rice noodles — with a vegetarian option also available. A wall of tables had been erected to enforce social distancing.

The goal is to serve up to 500 meals a day.

“I am really hoping I can keep 20 to 25% of employees,” Simone Tong, who founded the shop in 2017, told The Post. “I want to help my people as much as I can to continue employment. That is the number one goal. We need people to cook and to serve the community.”