The Ticket Restaurant is the solution of Edenred to manage employees’ meal expenses during the working day. It is a 100 % digital system, used with a card (or directly from your mobile) in restaurants and food establishments, and it is exempt from personal income tax up to 11 € per working day. In this guide, you will find a summary of everything you need to know – what it is, how it works, where it is used, its taxation, and how to offer it in your company – with links to articles where we elaborate on each point in detail.
meal voucher is a Solution for covering employee food expenses during the working day. Replaces traditional diets and reimbursements with comfortable, secure and entirely digitalA card associated with each employee that also allows payment from a mobile phone.
Its two defining traits are the flexibility of use – serves in a wide network of catering establishments – and its advantageous tax treatmentThe allowance is exempt from income tax for the employee up to €11 per working day and is a deductible expense for the company. It can be offered in three ways – social benefit, flexible remuneration or a mixed model – as you will see below.
It is used to pay for meals associated with the working day, whether the employee eats out or orders a home delivery. no minimums, fees or contract periods, it adapts equally well to large companies as it does to small ones or freelancers, and the company can personalise each card (amount, days or times of use).
The company hires the service, defines the parameters (daily limit, number of cards) and each employee activates theirs to start paying. Top-ups are done remotely and the balance and movements can be checked from the app. We explain it step-by-step in How does the restaurant card work.
It can be used in a wide network of restaurants, bars, cafés, and takeaway and delivery food businesses across Spain, as well as on delivery platforms. You can find the participating establishments at Restaurant finder and see the detail in Where to use Ticket Restaurant.
Funciona con una lógica. win-winThe company optimizes costs, simplifies management (single invoice, no upfront cash payment) and improves its employee value proposition; the employee gains purchasing power without affecting their net salary. We develop all of them. Company advantages of Ticket Restaurant.
Assistance is Exempt from income tax up to €11 per day effectively worked and is 100% deductible % for corporation tax purposes. The detail – requirements, what happens if the limit is exceeded, and how it is reflected in the payslip – is in Taxation of meal vouchers on Personal Income Tax.
The Ticket Restaurant can be implemented in three ways, according to the policy of each organisation: as social benefit, as part of a plan Flexible remuneration combining both into one mixed model. On those pages, you'll see how each option fits in and its tax treatment.
Introducing Ticket Restaurant to your company is simple: you define the parameters that best suit your workforce (amount, number of cards, scheme) and Edenred will guide you through the setup process. All you need to do is Get in touch with the Edenred team To begin.
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