A boost in preparation for the reopening of restaurants. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced this Thursday the doubling of the ceiling for restaurant ticketsto "support demand" and encourage French people to return to restaurants when they can reopen.
The daily ceiling for these tickets (in paper or card version) will therefore be raised from 19 to 38 euros and their use will be authorized on weekends and public holidays, until the end of 2020.
In order to support the catering sector, the daily ceiling for restaurant vouchers will be increased from 19 to 38 € and their use authorized on weekends and public holidays, from the date of reopening of the restaurants and until the end of the year 2020. https://t.co/m9asqFH5dv
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On April 23, the Ministry of Labor announced that the ceiling on the use of restaurant vouchers for purchases in supermarkets, local shops and weekly meals was raised to 95 euros, once a week, against 19 euros per day currently .
"Concretely this means that it will be possible to pay in one go for food shopping with restaurant tickets," said the ministry, adding that this device would be stopped as soon as restaurants reopen and that "a similar measure will be [a] taken for payment in restaurants ”.
About 4 million employees of companies use restaurant vouchers, a sector which represents more than 6 billion euros per year.
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