2023-11-14 22:01:22
Minister Olivia Grégoire announced that restaurant vouchers can still be used for food shopping “throughout the year 2024”.
what the fuck “a very nice session of government backpedaling”reacted on franceinfo Franck Delvaux, president of the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries (Umih) Paris-Île-de-France, after the government’s decision to extend the use of restaurant tickets for shopping food “throughout the year 2024”according to the statement by Minister for Commerce Olivia Grégoire on Tuesday November 14 on the M6 channel.
“I think we need to stop calling it a meal voucher because today it’s an inflation voucher”, believes Franck Delvaux. According to him, this meal ticket, created in 1957 by a business manager, is made primarily to “go to a restaurant and not to go shopping, not to go buy a birthday cake from the baker, or to go buy a Sunday roast from the butcher”. “The purpose of the meal voucher has been misused”he believes.
“Restaurateurs are not an adjustment variable. If the government thinks that there is inflation, and indeed there is, an inflation measure must be created.”
Franck Delvaux, president of Umih
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Franck Delvaux estimates that only 43% of restaurant vouchers are used in restaurants, or less than one in two restaurant vouchers. “As long as the employed population does not use their meal voucher to go to lunch” at the restaurant, “but rather make a bowl, or go buy a sandwich in the supermarket next door, then it’s a loss for the restaurateurs”estimates the president of UMIH Paris-Île-de-France. “We are strongly impacted. We obviously contest this decision and we will try to be able to act and ensure that things change”he concludes.
This possibility of paying for raw products (fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, pasta, rice) with meal vouchers was granted to the French by the law of August 16, 2022, “carrying out emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power”and was to end on January 1, 2024, before finally being extended.
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