TICKET RESTAURANT. The doubling of the restaurant ticket ceiling, for a maximum amount of 38 euros per day, has been extended until the end of June 2022. Where to use them? Are restaurant tickets 2021 still valid? Know everything.
[Mis à jour le 23 février 2022 à 13h13] This Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery Bruno Le Maire announced at the microphone of BFMTV-RMC that the daily amount of restaurant tickets uncapped at 38 euros is maintained “until the end of June”. “And they can be used on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays,” he added. However, this extension granted by the government will be “the last”, warned Bercy in a Press release. “These derogatory terms for the use of meal vouchers were initially decided in June 2020 and then extended twice in December 2020 and August 2021” specifies the press release.
The extension of this measure was necessary since it “responds to the need to continue supporting the catering sector whose activity remains disrupted by the pandemic and the measures taken to deal with it, in particular over the past few years. weeks”, underlines the press release from the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Recovery, alluding to possible checks of the vaccination pass carried out by restaurateurs. “I think our restaurant friends deserve it,” concluded the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire on BFMTV-RMC.
Since June 12, 2020 already, the ceiling for daily use of the restaurant ticket has increased from 19 euros to a maximum of 38 euros, a will of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, concretized by a decree published in the Official Journal. This measure came to the aid of restaurateurs struggling with economic difficulties since the closure of their brands during the state of health emergency linked to the coronavirus epidemic. While this measure was due to end on December 31, 2020, it was extended twice, first in December 2020 and then in August 2021 by the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire. Before June 12, 2020, only a ceiling of 19 euros for restaurant tickets could be used both in restaurants and in food stores, excluding Sundays and holidays. Where can this ceiling of 38 euros be used? Is it valid every day of the week?
Previously set at 19 euros per day, the payment ceiling for your meal voucher has been raised to 38 euros per day until June 30, 2022, in order to support the catering sector, which has been permanently affected by the coronavirus crisis. The amount of 38 euros for your restaurant voucher or restaurant ticket card applies every day of the week, Sundays included, as well as public holidayswhich was not the case before June 12, 2020, the initial date of the measure taken at the time by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
The restaurant ticket ceiling of 38 euros can only be used in restaurants, hotel-restaurants and pubs. In food stores and supermarkets, the ceiling is set at 19 euros, as before. In addition, if it is possible to use your meal voucher on Sundays and public holidays at the restaurant, hotel-restaurant or in a drinking establishment, it will not be possible to do so in food stores and supermarkets.. For these businesses, the use of the card remains limited to working days, because it should not be forgotten that the objective of this provisional removal of the ceiling is “to encourage the use of meal vouchers in restaurants and hotels- restaurants, and thus to respond to the economic difficulties of these establishments resulting from their closure during the state of health emergency”, according to the official decree.
Despite the ease of use of the restaurant ticket, don’t forget that, as a reminder, restaurants and merchants are not all obliged to accept your restaurant voucher! Before venturing into a sign, check that it is on the list of restaurants that accept it. Meet on the Edenred platformwhich manages restaurant tickets, and fill in an address or a place.
The end of validity of a meal ticket for the past year (2021) takes place on February 28, 2022. “Employees have the possibility until March 15 of next year to exchange their meal vouchers from the year 2021 (whose end of validity is February 28, 2022) against titles for the year 2022” specifies the press release from the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Recovery.
The terms of use of the restaurant ticket do not change for teleworkers, who continue to benefit from restaurant vouchers.