How to obtain and use restaurant titles?

No, the employer is not pitch forced to hand over restaurant vouchers to his employee.

It can also choose to make available to him a canteen or dining room or him pour a lunch bonus.

If the employer chooses to award restaurant titles, it decides on the number of restaurant titles awarded.

The employee can only benefit one title per meal included in its timetable working daily.

This benefit applies to the employee full or part-time, to the employee temporary worker and trainee.

The employee is not not obligatory to accept restaurant vouchers. One collective agreement can foresee this obligation.

If the employee does not want use them, it is recommended to inform your employer in writing.

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

• Restaurants and certain similar businesses (delicatessens, caterers, bakeries, food distribution businesses, etc.)
• Retailers of fruit and vegetables.

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

• Restaurants and certain similar businesses (delicatessens, caterers, bakeries, food distribution businesses, etc.)
• Retailers of fruit and vegetables.

The vouchers are valid for food that is immediately consumable or that will be used to prepare the employee's meal:

• Prepared dishes or salads
• Sandwiches
• Fruit and vegetables, dairy products, etc.

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

The restaurant titles are personal. The employee is the only person who can use it.

He can use his restaurant titles working days only, unless he works on Sundays or public holidays.

The employee may use his restaurant vouchers up to €25 per day.

When using a card or an application on his smartphone, the employee is charged the exact amount to be paid.

If the employee uses paper securities, the trader is not allowed to give it back.

The employee can pay for meals by restaurant vouchers only in the department where he works and in the neighboring departments.

The employer may grant the employee securities valid outside these limits if he travels for work.

The employer may issue the employee with securities in several formats:

• Checkbook paper tickets
• Prepaid and rechargeable smart card (usable in the same terminals as bank cards)
• Access to an application on the mobile phone (smartphone)

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

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

When the employee leaves the company with unused restaurant vouchers, they are returned to the employer. The employer reimburses the employee for the amount of his participation in the purchase of these securities.

The employer freely determines the amount of the value of the restaurant securities.

The restaurant is partly financed by the employer, who must obligatory to take over between 50% and 60% of its value. He's staying in 40% and 50% the value of the ticket payable by the employee.

A company that decides to set up a system of restaurant vouchers for its employees must obtain them from one of the private businesses specializing in the issue of vouchers.

The employer must pay for the purchase of the restaurant vouchers at the latest on delivery of the vouchers and for their full discharge value.

The company issuing the securities must reimburse those presented to it by the shops 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 delivery date.

In order to be exempt from social security contributions, the employer's contribution must be between 50% and 60% of its value and up to €7.26 by security for 2025 securities.

If the employer's contribution exceeds this limit (which is not prohibited), the portion of the contribution exceeding the legal limit is reinstated in the social contribution base company.