“The primary purpose of the device has been forgotten” | EUROtoday

Ct’s troublesome to confess, however it appears that evidently the French had been impressed by the English on a culinary topic. The meal voucher was, actually, born in post-war United Kingdom in order that corporations might assist their workers eat a wholesome meal, in opposition to a backdrop of persistent restrictions. The method, which additionally made it attainable to help native restaurateurs, then prospered in France. In 1967, it was thought-about virtuous sufficient to profit from tax exemptions. Nearly sixty years later, nevertheless, the unique function of the meal voucher has been forgotten, like a leftover spinach on the sting of the plate.

The National Commission for Meal Vouchers has simply given its approval to the Dutch dwelling merchandise model HEMA, in order that 5 million workers will be capable to use their benefit in shops the place the one meals merchandise on the cabinets are crisps and different sweets. On this account, we’ll quickly be capable to pay with an Edenred, Swile or Pluxee card on service provider websites the place we settle for cookies.

This authorization pissed off the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries. In a letter despatched to the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Commerce, Serge Papin, on December 24, 2025, however revealed Monday January 5 by Agence France-Presse, the primary employers’ group within the lodge and catering trade sounds the alarm on “the economic and competitive consequences for restaurateurs and similar establishments”historic beneficiaries of a system whose recipe has modified.

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