STORY – The public authorities are preparing to extend the possibility of widely using these vouchers in supermarkets. This is yet another defeat for restaurant owners, as retailers increasingly take advantage of employees’ lunch breaks. To the point of worrying issuers.
Thierry Marx, France’s most media-savvy Michelin-starred chefis a fervent devotee of meditation and Zen Buddhism. He is also a black belt in judo and President of the Union des métiers et des industries de l’Hôtellerie (Umih), France’s leading restaurant owners’ union. The fact that, from 2022 onwards, the French will be able to use their meal vouchers to shop for food in supermarkets has sent him into a tizzy. And he’s donning a new suit: that of the defender of eating out with your meal voucher.
“It’s scandalous to deprive restaurant owners of income in favor of supermarkets! enthuses Thierry Marx. Every day, around twenty establishments close. We’re not going to solve a problem of purchasing power in France by destroying jobs in our sector for the benefit of mass retailing.“.
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Restaurant owners are used to grumbling
For several weeks now, restaurateurs have been up in arms about retailers like Carrefour, Auchan and Leclerc. They’re used to grumbling. But usually it’s against the issuers of meal vouchers, who charge them very high commissions. This time, they are loudly accusing supermarkets of unfairly depriving them of a growing share of these vouchers.
The aim of this offensive is clear…
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