STRENGTH in the face of adversity has come in the form of Mildura's Mr Bun Mi and Andy's Kitchen restaurateur Andy Nguyen.

The Vietnamese-born Mr Nguyen has reached out to those doing it tough and the region's emergency services workers to provide free meals during the coronavirus pandemic.

And the service is generating as much goodwill among the community as it is nourishing lunch or dinner packs.

Doctors, nurses, paramedics, police, truck drivers, aged-care and disability and support workers as well as Centrelink and welfare support staff are all eligible for Mr Nguyen's generosity.

Mr Nguyen said the service had been growing by the day, but it was a way that he and his team could give back to the community.

"We are all working together through this as a whole and we were thinking what we could do for the community," Mr Nguyen said.

"Obviously, this is a very difficult time that we have never ever encountered,

"It has never happened to any of us ... we have never seen this before.

"We've been very lucky so far in that we've got a very good team who have united together and wants to do something for the community.

"In the good times our business is doing well and we are very busy, so this is an opportunity to give back to the community and that comes from our heart."

Mr Nguyen said emergency services personnel were arriving "almost any day" and, as well as servicing the region's needy, the number of meals being served was increasing daily.

"If we see a family in need we just do that ourselves," he said.

"We've also had people go to our Facebook page to nominate a family in need who deserve a free meal from us and that is going very well and just shows how much people are caring about other people.

"We do have our regular customers who continue to support the business for what we do.

"But we also try to lift people's spirits -- be positive, we are doing this together, think positive, this thing will be over -- that's the message we are sending to people every day.

"That positivity really makes a big difference with our customers and that's why they love to order food from us."

Mr Nguyen said the community reaction had been heart-warming since the service was established this week.

"The response has been overwhelming -- people have been dropping flowers to the restaurant to say thank you, and our social media has been positive with appreciative comments to the whole team," he said.

"It's the little things people do to show their appreciation that helps us to keep going.

"But we keep asking ourselves every day, 'What else can we do?' That's the question that also helps us keep going.

"We're doing this day by day -- we don't even know about tomorrow -- but, of course, we'll try to do this as long as we can."

Mr Nguyen said staff continued to practise social distancing and regulations that had been implemented, however the business was still offering home delivery and takeaway options.

He said delivery had been expanded to include the Gol Gol, Cabarita and Irymple areas.

"We're a small business and the business, at the moment, we're hurting too because it has been very quiet," he said.

"But it's not about the profit, it's not about how much money we make, it's just about what can we do for the community at this time.

"I firmly believe that if we do a good thing every day that will make our community a better community and more people will come to live here."