I receive 11.97€ /day in ticket restaurants, with a card or even on a smartphone now a’days. My employer pays 60%, & the
40% is deducted from my salary.
Good, when popping across to the local bar for a beer and paying a round with the locals, eating out. Also all the butchers & the best bakers here except them, the supermarkets (except Lidl, never been to the local Aldi) for foodstuff except alcohol. The TR’s are limited to 25€ per day by law & can be only used from Monday - Saturday. Though there are exceptions, the employer must declare employees are working on Sundays & bank holidays etc.
I don’t think anything is stopping an employer from paying more in TR’s but they would be taxed on it I think to be corrected by those who know better.
When working for the FCO in France on a locally engaged contract, I received TR’s on the employer base rate, without anything coming from my salary IIRC +/- 4-5€ per day.?
Many workers in the building industry use the TR’s to buy foodstuff and bring home-cooked food to work to heat up. Well, they do in Paris. Eating out is expensive for them.
Anyone actually eaten one?
Thanks - interesting to see the data.
Yes. Was ok and very much depends on the supplier who stocks the machine.
We religiously have a Friday night pizza whether at home or away in our camping car. When at home we buy cheap Lidl margherita’s and apply our own toppings. When out and about a pizza can often cost 10 to 14 euros so recently we bought an electric Aldi pizza oven for 30 euros and now we can make our Lidl personalised pizzas where ever we are and have recouped the cost of the pizza oven immediately.
Have also used the bread kiosks which are very good.
Is this Luncheon Voucher thing a recent thing? I never saw any drivers paying with them in restos and I was never given any before I retired at the end of 2002. But what did happen was that we were given a cash advance every Saturday to pay for meals, normally evening ones when parked up away from home (in England it was called Night Out Money (NO)), but I always assumed, though never checked the long and detailed payslips we got, that it was deducted. But of course it wouldn’t have been, we would have been paid that as part of legitimate expense.
I knock up my dough at home as I find shop bough kind of dead unlevened sort of. When practicing this it became a quick easy process except for the overnight prove.
Yep. More than once!
Generally okay, but not to the standard of our (UK) takeaway, and certainly not proper restaurant quality.
Miles better than those you might buy in a supermarket.
They are better than you expect.
They fit that everywhere is shut and I’m tired gap. Sundays midnight dinner will no doubt be from one - land at 10pm with a 2 hour drive.
After trying Pinsa earlier in the year in Sardinia, and finding that Grand Frais sell the pre cooked Pinsa, we’ve been buying those to make a Pizza … or actually, a Pinsa.
Before that, I made my own pizza dough which is so much better than what you buy in the supermarkets.
Looks interesting.
Though without your link, I possibly wouldn’t have associated it with Croydon…
Certainly does, I am in Croydon on Wed, so could call in. But depends on friends and where they would like to go.
I just searched for Pinsa and got that hit at the top, then looked at the text which was very correct. Didn’t realise I was advertising a restaurant 
Going to be trying this as I have an excess of rice flour and also some spelt at the moment.
What is semolina flour in French supermarkets?
farine de semoule?
Thanks Chris, pinsa would be the same without it.
We are envious of all your villages with shops. We only have a resto and a church despite being a tourist village for archeology. Our nearest shop, Intermarche, is 6 miles away.
Similar here, after several years of the only bar closed, it is now re-opened about 2 evenings a month, thought to be by a consortium using it as a tax loss. Nothing else at all but we do have an Agence Postale with a very obliging lady running it. Happy that it is our bank. 4 kms away, a larger village with one butcher, one baker, one pharmacie, one presse, one bar and a coffee shop. All were doubled up 5 years ago.
With apologies for a very late response, we live in a village on the edge of a small spa town (pop 6000) in the Pyrenees. The curistes are very important to the economy both directly and indirectly. In the paste there were lots of small hotels which have closed over the years and become self catering a. This mans the curistes tend ot use local shops rather than the grnad surfaces on the edge of the town. WE still have 7 boulangeries 6 boucheries 3 charcuteries. We also have a good range of restaurants at all levels. We make a point of avoinding the grandes surfaces on the use it or lose it principle. We also benefit from the firendliness of the various owners of the independant shops. Spa towns have many benfits though neither of us have actually been on a cure