12 December 2025

Advantages of Restaurant Vouchers for Companies

smiling woman eats salad while chatting with a man in a bright restaurant with large windows.

To a company, to offer Ticket Restaurant offers four clear advantages: it is an expense 100% deductible % for corporation tax purposes, help attract and retain talent, improves, Productivity and well-being of the team and is Very easy to manage. And it works just as well in a large company as in a small or medium-sized enterprise. Below, we look at them one by one.

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Why offer Ticket Restaurant to your employees?

The Ticket Restaurant is one of the best-rated benefits in kind by the employees and one of the Typical products in flexible benefits schemescovers an unavoidable daily expense – food during the workday – without the worker having to allocate part of their salary to it. This positive reception, combined with its tax advantage, makes it one of the tools with the best cost-to-impact ratio for the company, whether for large workforces or small teams.

Advantages for the company

  • Tax relief. The amount delivered in Ticket Restaurant is 100% deductible % for corporation tax purposes, and for the employee, it is exempt from income tax up to €11 per working day. You have the tax details – requirements, limits, and payslip – at Taxation of meal vouchers on Personal Income Tax.
  • Talent attraction and retention. Increasingly, professionals value non-monetary benefits when choosing between one job and another. Offering this type of support Improve the company's image as an employer and helps to build team loyalty.
  • More productivity and well-being. Providing a proper meal helps prevent employees from eating poorly or skipping meals at their computers, and reduce travel to eat at home, with the consequent saving of time.
  • Simple management and expense control. With the card format, the company controls meal expenses in real time from any device, manages top-ups remotely, and centralises everything in one single invoice, without collecting tickets.

And for your employees?

The advantages for the staff are, in reality, advantages for the company, because a satisfied team is better retained. The employee purchasing power (doesn't allocate part of their salary to daily food), pays less tax thanks to the exemption, and enjoy Flexibility and comfortPay exactly from your card or mobile, and locate nearby restaurants from the app.

Just as useful for SMEs as for large companies

The Restaurant Ticket it doesn't demand minimums or large volumes, so it fits perfectly into an SME. In fact, for small businesses the Centralised control of food spending and improving the employee value proposition – without setting up a canteen or incurring significant costs – are often particularly useful when competing for talent with larger companies.

How to start

Implementing Ticket Restaurant is straightforward and adapts to your company's specific characteristics. You can calculate the return for your case with the Business savings calculator or Get in touch with the Edenred team To begin.

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