How to obtain and use restaurant vouchers?

No, the employer is not not obliged to give restaurant vouchers to his employee and he can also choose to make available to it a canteen or dining room or him pour a lunch bonus.

Where the employer decides to award restaurant vouchers to its employees, it shall decides freely of the number of restaurant vouchers awarded.

This benefit applies to the employee in CDI: titleContent or in CDD: titleContent, full or part-time, to the employee interim, à the apprentice, intern and at teleworker.

The employee can only benefit from of one title per meal included in its schedule working day laborer.

The employee is not not obligated to accept restaurant vouchers. One collective agreement may foresee that obligation. If the employee wish not use them, it is recommended to inform your employer in writing.

The employee can pay all or part of his meal with his restaurant vouchers in the following places:

• Restaurants and some similar traders (cold cuts, caterers, bakeries, food distribution shops, etc.)
• Retailers in fruit and vegetables.

Restaurant vouchers are valid for food immediately consumable or which will be used for preparation of the meal of the employee:

• Cooked dishes or prepared salads
• Sandwiches
• Fruits and vegetables, dairy products, etc.

Restaurant vouchers are valid until 31 December 2026 for the purchase of any food product, whether or not directly consumable.

Restaurant vouchers are personal. The employee is there single person to be able to use it.

He can use his restaurant vouchers working days only, unless it is brought to work the sunday or the public holidays.

The employee can use his restaurant vouchers within the limit of €25 per day.

When using a map or a application on his smartphone, the employee is debited the sum exact to pay.

If the employee uses securities paper, the trader has no right to give him change.

The employee can pay his meals by restaurant vouchers only in the department where it work and in the neighboring departments.

The employer may grant to employees of securities valid in outside of these limits if it carries out business travel.

The employer may give the employee titles in several formats:

• Tickets paper as checkbook
• Smart card prepaid and rechargeable (can be used in the same terminals as bank cards)
• Access to a application on the mobile phone (smartphone).

When the employee benefits from a card or an application on his smartphone, he can access free of charge (by SMS for example) the balance of his personal restaurant voucher account.

Restaurant vouchers can be used during the calendar year of their issue and January and february of the following year.

Securities issued during the current year may not be used by the employee until he/she has used all securities issued during the previous calendar year.

When the employee quit the company by owning restaurant vouchers unused, he shall deliver them to the employer. The employer reimburses the employee for the amount of his participation in the purchase of these securities.

The employer shall determine freely the amount of value restaurant vouchers.

The restaurant title is in part financed by the employer, who shall obligatory take charge between 50% and 60% of its value. He stays in 40% and 50% the value of the restaurant voucher payable by the employee.

A company that decides to set up a restaurant voucher system for its staff must obtain them from one of the private businesses that specialize in issuing vouchers.

The employer must pay the order for the restaurant vouchers no later than the delivery of the vouchers and for their full value.

The company issuing the securities must reimburse those presented to it by the businesses authorized to accept them in the course of their commercial activity. This reimbursement must take place within a maximum period of 21 days from the date of delivery.

In order to be exempt from social security contributions, the employer contribution must be between 50% and 60% of its value and within the limit of €7.32 by security for 2026 securities.

If the employer's contribution overtakes At this limit (which is not prohibited), the fraction of the contribution exceeding the legal ceiling is reinstated in the social security contribution base company.