The restaurant vouchers will be usable even on Sundays and public holidays, for a doubled daily amount, which increases to 38 euros, conditions of use temporarily relaxed by decree to help restaurateurs to restart their activity. Published in the Official Journal on Thursday, the decree specifies that these new terms, in force until December 31, aim to "respond to the economic difficulties" of traditional restaurants, self-services, brasseries or hotel-restaurants, "resulting from their closure during the state of health emergency "linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.
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Announced by the Prime Minister at the end of the interministerial tourism committee of May 14, this measure should allow some 4.4 million employees to "spare" the equivalent of 1.5 billion euros of unused payment vouchers during the confinement. This "will encourage the French to use their restaurant vouchers in restaurants on weekends with their families, I think it is a way of providing very concrete support to restaurateurs", declared the Minister for the Economy, Bruno Le Mayor, Thursday on LCI.
"If this weekend especially, you want to go to the restaurant and pay your restaurant with your restaurant ticket you can do it, do it, it will help the restaurateurs", he insisted.
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Towards a ceiling also raised for the use of meal vouchers in supermarkets?
On April 23, in full confinement, the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, had announced that the ceiling for the use of meal vouchers for purchases in supermarkets, local shops and weekly meals, would be raised to 95 euros, a times per week, against 19 euros per day currently. She had announced a joint decree with the Minister of the Economy which never arrived. Asked on Monday that no decree had been published, Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, replied: "Why is it blocking? We don't know".