Issuers and the National Restaurant Vouchers Commission are pushing the government to put an end to paper vouchers in order to generalize the use of the card. Are restaurant vouchers in paper format threatened?
Merchants have the right to refuse a restaurant ticket, paper or card. For many months, some of them have been railing against the card format, which is gradually replacing paper, because of too high an operating commission, when issuers (Edenred, UpDjeuner, Sodexo or Natixis to name the heavyweights of the market) push ever more dematerialization.
The latter once hoped to take advantage of the closure at the end of February of the Securities Settlement Center (CRT) which processes tickets used by customers to convert them into euros from restaurants and bakers. But faced with the concern of the merchants of not being able to be reimbursed, and who began to refuse them, the directors had to urgently find a common service provider.
The government is asking to impose the end of paper
However, the paper restaurant ticket seems doomed in the medium term. If the commissions have not fallen as high as the hopes of the restaurateurs, they are saving money due to the reduction in the costs linked to the processing of the titles with the disappearance of the paper: conservation of the titles, risk of theft, stamping, cutting of the corners, registered mail…, argues Edenred to MoneyVox.
We would have liked [qu’ils disparaissent]would have saved time, judge Hlne Clautour, president of the catering branch of Umih 85 and in charge of the national restaurant vouchers commission at the national level withActu.fr. A commission which represents 220,000 establishments and which has even asked the government to impose the end of paper.
10% of meal vouchers are not used
For the time being, the executive has only influenced the daily ceiling, which rose to 25 euros on October 1, 2022, and the possibility of paying for all of its purchases made in the supermarket with meal vouchers, but not on Sundays. . You have the option of using your restaurant vouchers to buy any type of food product, even if they are not directly consumable without cooking or preparation (flour, pasta, rice, eggs, fish, meat, etc.), article 6 of the recent law for the protection of purchasing power. However, Nothing in the 2014 decree which authorizes the deployment of dematerialized lunch vouchers provides for the end of the paper medium.
In France, 7.5 billion euros in securities are issued each year. In total, 4.8 million employees benefit from it in nearly 20% of French companies. according to things, every year, 10% of the titles issued are not used. This represents the incredible sum of 700 million euros.
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