During two months of work in Moldova, the French company EDENRED put into circulation over 75,000 meal vouchers with a face value of almost 3 million lei based on contracts signed with over 60 Moldovan enterprises that offer this extra-salary benefit to employees, IPN reports.
EDENRED Romania and Moldova director general Dana Sintejudean told a news conference in Chisinau that the meal vouchers are a method of paying for meal, like with the card or in cash.
“It is a system that helps all the involved players: the employee receives a voucher for a meal a day and his purchasing power is thus increasing, the employer enjoys fiscal concessions by providing the meal vouchers, while the trader sees his revenues growing. This system takes the money out of the underground economy and direst it to the official economy,” stated Dana Sintejudean.
Ilie Gogu, the representative of a large pizza and pie chain, said a contract with EDENRED for accepting meal vouchers was signed three weeks ago and a rise in the use of meal vouchers at their restaurants was witnessed in the period. The menu and prices for holders of meal vouchers are the same. The difference between the value of the meal vouchers and what the person consumes can be paid in cash.
Adelina Fuior, of another pizza chain, said the meal vouchers represent added value for consumers. “We were among the first to use meal vouchers. We already used 1,100 meal vouchers and the turnover rose by 41,000 lei. Our breakfast costs 35 lei and this price perfectly matches the lowest value of a meal voucher. This is a positive experience,” she stated.
According to Diana Trohin, of a chain of gas stations and stores, their company offers the employees meal vouchers and enables the clients to make purchases with meal vouchers as they decided to test the new tendencies on the market.
Since its official launch in April 2018, EDENRED MD managed to build the largest network of affiliated traders with over 1,300 retail outlets all over the country based on agreements with food stores and restaurants that accept meal vouchers. Now the EDENRED meal vouchers are accepted by the restaurants Andy’s Pizza, La Placinte, KFC, PizzaMania, the chain of supermarkets No. 1 and the Vento gas stations in Chisinau and elsewhere.
The EDENRED meal vouchers are accepted in over 100 retail outlets, including quarter shops in several district centers. Together with its partners, EDENRED promotes correct and healthy eating habits. In several weeks, EDENRED will issue electronic meal vouchers based on an innovative solution that will include the use of cards.