Yeah, restaurants want, ultimately, to force people to only use the vouchers to buy from them.
Fine, then they should be required to serve a meal big enough to satisfy the average person for €8.40. Let’s see how long they’ll push for this to happen. 🙂
I work in Belgium and I currently have mine on a electronic card which let me use it just like a normal credit card
Way better than what my parents have atm (those vouchers
Those things are absolute bs. Just give people actual money. A salary, if you will
What exactly do they want? I mean if the government gives in and reforms the system, will we still be able to buy food from a supermarket with the vouchers? Nobody goes to a restaurant 20 times a month. That’s very unrealistic if that’s what they want. What about people with specific dietary requirements that can’t trust restaurant food and need to make a lunch? (Serious allergies, other food intolerances)
A lame baguette at fisher. Max!
Depends what you think about “good” lunch
cheap but enough
just enough, but fancy
or cheap but…
restaurants, almost impossible
did you tried lunchtime, foozo and so?
what about other fast foods? subway, kebab, dürüm,…
some places sell warm chicken wings and potatos like emo and cactus lets say rond about 3-4€ plus potatos 2€, but you can buy salads and fruits
Don’t Forget Us
What a totally desperate name for an organisation. Pulling numbers out of thin air with no sources to back them up. If these are restricted, I’ll ask my company for the value in cash and take the added tax hit.
If they go that road I can only hope that companies will review their benefits scheme.
And of course that people would still buy ready meals in supermarkets. Plus we should absolutely “forget about them” for a while so they get the message.
Snack Ankara, it’s like 10 euro for a durum, fries, cola or 6 for just the durum
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8,40 is cheap from your employer, as it was the value set in 2001. Government allows the scheme to be used up to 10,80. Might be enough for a Bigmac…
The reason these vouchers came into place was because some work places have canteens or other subsidized food for lunch. This was seen as unfair. So these vouchers exist to help smaller businesses or ones without the option to have a canteen to offer a lunch subsidy.
So in essence it’s not designed to pay for all of your lunch, unless you want a kebab meal which are about 8 euro with chips and a drink.
Kebab, done.
Why should your employer pay for your full lunch? The meal vouchers are a compensation and contribution for the fact that you can’t cook your own meal at cheaper prices at home. They are not meant to cover your full cost.
This don’t forget us is pure hypocrisy. Do you know that some restaurants don’t accept the voucher during dinner? Say someone goes to dinner get a couple of cocktails and a few bottles of wine…well because it’s dinner a certain restaurant will not take them…
Why? It takes too long for them to get the money back from the government …so it’s not good for them to take them.
But then they complain that people go buy an iPad with them…please be serious…
😂😂 it’s lux, everything is a fucking rip off
It is very easy to just implement not being able to buy electronics with it. Why in the hell should you be able to buy a TV with food tickets? I never used them that way and now that I know I could, I still won’t. I always use them for groceries ( food and I admit, cleaning products, which I don’t think is massive misuse of it. )
You can get a good meal at Lao Thai but you’ll have to add a couple of euros.
In short when referring to a “good” lunch, not just chemical garbage, the answer is nowhere
If they solve the house price scam crisis we can easily accept those bullshit…
The problem is that there is an ongoing housing fraud (empity houses owned by hedge funds, and building land unused), that’s a real problem!
If you keep in mind that the €8.40 voucher is tax free if you yourself make a contribution of €2.80, then your €8.40 meal is costing you €3.96 only. This is because a 20% average tax you’d pay on €5.80 (your employer’s contribution to the cheque) would be €1.16.
The question to ask would be how much would you need to add to the €8.40 cheque repas to get a decent meal. Add that extra out of your pocket to the €3.96 cost to you of the cheque repas, and you can get a pretty decent meal anywhere. For example, if you added €5 from your pocket, you’d apparently be paying €13.40, but the cost to you would be €8.96.
The amount on the cheque repas has increased to over €10 for a lot of employees. I don’t have the exact amount as I am now self employed.
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Yeah, restaurants want, ultimately, to force people to only use the vouchers to buy from them.
Fine, then they should be required to serve a meal big enough to satisfy the average person for €8.40. Let’s see how long they’ll push for this to happen. 🙂
I work in Belgium and I currently have mine on a electronic card which let me use it just like a normal credit card
Way better than what my parents have atm (those vouchers
Those things are absolute bs. Just give people actual money. A salary, if you will
What exactly do they want? I mean if the government gives in and reforms the system, will we still be able to buy food from a supermarket with the vouchers? Nobody goes to a restaurant 20 times a month. That’s very unrealistic if that’s what they want. What about people with specific dietary requirements that can’t trust restaurant food and need to make a lunch? (Serious allergies, other food intolerances)
A lame baguette at fisher. Max!
Depends what you think about “good” lunch
cheap but enough
just enough, but fancy
or cheap but…
restaurants, almost impossible
did you tried lunchtime, foozo and so?
what about other fast foods? subway, kebab, dürüm,…
some places sell warm chicken wings and potatos like emo and cactus lets say rond about 3-4€ plus potatos 2€, but you can buy salads and fruits
Don’t Forget Us
What a totally desperate name for an organisation. Pulling numbers out of thin air with no sources to back them up. If these are restricted, I’ll ask my company for the value in cash and take the added tax hit.
If they go that road I can only hope that companies will review their benefits scheme.
And of course that people would still buy ready meals in supermarkets. Plus we should absolutely “forget about them” for a while so they get the message.
Snack Ankara, it’s like 10 euro for a durum, fries, cola or 6 for just the durum
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8,40 is cheap from your employer, as it was the value set in 2001. Government allows the scheme to be used up to 10,80. Might be enough for a Bigmac…
https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/1986/12/29/n1/jo
Article 2 paragraph 1.
Not sure what else needs to be said or added ?!
The reason these vouchers came into place was because some work places have canteens or other subsidized food for lunch. This was seen as unfair. So these vouchers exist to help smaller businesses or ones without the option to have a canteen to offer a lunch subsidy.
So in essence it’s not designed to pay for all of your lunch, unless you want a kebab meal which are about 8 euro with chips and a drink.
Kebab, done.
Why should your employer pay for your full lunch? The meal vouchers are a compensation and contribution for the fact that you can’t cook your own meal at cheaper prices at home. They are not meant to cover your full cost.
This don’t forget us is pure hypocrisy. Do you know that some restaurants don’t accept the voucher during dinner? Say someone goes to dinner get a couple of cocktails and a few bottles of wine…well because it’s dinner a certain restaurant will not take them…
Why? It takes too long for them to get the money back from the government …so it’s not good for them to take them.
But then they complain that people go buy an iPad with them…please be serious…
😂😂 it’s lux, everything is a fucking rip off
It is very easy to just implement not being able to buy electronics with it. Why in the hell should you be able to buy a TV with food tickets? I never used them that way and now that I know I could, I still won’t. I always use them for groceries ( food and I admit, cleaning products, which I don’t think is massive misuse of it. )
You can get a good meal at Lao Thai but you’ll have to add a couple of euros.
In short when referring to a “good” lunch, not just chemical garbage, the answer is nowhere
If they solve the house price scam crisis we can easily accept those bullshit…
The problem is that there is an ongoing housing fraud (empity houses owned by hedge funds, and building land unused), that’s a real problem!
If you keep in mind that the €8.40 voucher is tax free if you yourself make a contribution of €2.80, then your €8.40 meal is costing you €3.96 only. This is because a 20% average tax you’d pay on €5.80 (your employer’s contribution to the cheque) would be €1.16.
The question to ask would be how much would you need to add to the €8.40 cheque repas to get a decent meal. Add that extra out of your pocket to the €3.96 cost to you of the cheque repas, and you can get a pretty decent meal anywhere. For example, if you added €5 from your pocket, you’d apparently be paying €13.40, but the cost to you would be €8.96.
The amount on the cheque repas has increased to over €10 for a lot of employees. I don’t have the exact amount as I am now self employed.