Experience Mealtime Made Easy with the Pluxee Food Benefit
Happy employees enjoying a meal at a modern cafeteria, with a visible POS terminal showing a food card transaction
With evolving labor codes mandating provision for meals at workplaces for employees
The food card from Pluxee is more than just a meal benefit it’s an employee experience enhancer. Designed to simplify food wallet and amplify tax savings, the food card gives your employees access to a vast proprietary network of food merchants both online and offline across 1,800+ cities in India.
Whether you're a large enterprise or a growing startup, the food card for employees enables seamless distribution and 100% tax compliance. With evolving labor codes mandating provision for meals at workplaces for employees, the food card allowance offers a digitized, compliant, and scalable solution.
It’s a win-win: Employees enjoy greater purchasing power thanks to tax savings and exclusive offers, while employers streamline operations and boost engagement.
The food wallet supports multiple payment methods tap & pay, swipe, online QR payments via the next-gen Pluxee India app.The food card is accepted at cafes, food delivery platforms, restaurants, and local food outlets. With its 3-year plastic card validity and dynamic PIN-based transactions, it ensures safety, control, and convenience.
From improving workplace satisfaction to meeting statutory compliance, the food card delivers tangible business and HR value. Start issuing food card allowances through Pluxee’s easy 5-minute onboarding process and unlock the power of purposeful perks.
Let your employees savor every bite while your business savors every benefit with Pluxee’s trusted food wallet.
Celebrate everyday meals with smart employee benefits
India's only food benefit card built on a proprietary network ensuring regulatory compliance.
Use the food benefit across 1800+ cities and thousands of online/offline food merchants.
From swipe and tap to QR scan—use your food card the way you want.
Access Pluxee Specials with curated deals, discounts, and cashback on meals and food purchases.
Get SMS/email alerts and app notifications for each food card transaction.
Dynamic PIN, 24/7 card control, and ISO-certified operations ensure peace of mind.
Pay seamlessly within office cafeterias using NFC tag or QR code scan.
Activate and link your food card within minutes via a digital KYC
The ultimate food benefit for employee happiness
Digital onboarding
Experience a simple and 100% digital corporate onboarding process.
5-minute card ordering
Order Food cards effortlessly with one-touch ordering through the Pluxee client portal.
Card loading
Company makes the payment, and money is swiftly loaded to the wallet.
Card activation
Recipients receive the card with instructions to activate and use the card.
- Full-time employees
- Contractual or outsourced workers
- Non-managerial staff (as defined under the OSHW code)
- Employees entitled to meal benefits or food card allowance
Whether you're fulfilling labor code requirements or simply improving employee wellbeing, the food wallets for employees fits all.
Pluxee (formerly Sodexo BRS) helps your employees by:
- Helping Save tax up-to ₹75,000 p.a per employee on all benefits
- Providing best in class tax compliant solutions
- Empowering with 20+ benefits including meal, fuel, telecom, wellness, learning, and much more
- Providing access to a vast network of 50 lakh+ merchant partners across 1,800+ towns pan-India (including online)
Why choose us?
- 27 years of expertise and trust
- 11,000+ clients across public & private sector
- 3.5+ million consumers who believe in us
- Highest Rated Employee Benefits App in India
- Multiple payment modes for consumers including card-based, QR, Online
To know more, connect with us - our team will be happy to guide you through our solutions and answer any questions you may have.
A food card is a prepaid benefit card provided by employers to allow employees to purchase food and non-alcoholic beverages. It helps streamline meal benefits and increases employee tax savings.
Any employee receiving a food card allowance from their employer is eligible. This includes full-time, contractual, and outsourced staff.
Employees can use the food card at Pluxee-affiliated food outlets or online food platforms. Payments can be made via swipe, tap, or QR code using the Pluxee India app.
The food card is accepted at over 1,800 cities across India, including restaurants, food delivery apps, cafeterias, and grocery outlets selling food and beverages.
Yes. Pluxee’s food card is 100% tax compliant and adheres to Indian labor and tax regulations.
Absolutely. You can use your food card on selected food delivery platforms and online merchant sites via the “Pluxee” checkout option.
Each food card comes with a 3-year validity from the date of issue.
Food card allowance is a monthly pre-loaded amount provided by your employer, used strictly for food-related purchases.
Yes. The card has features like dynamic PINs, real-time alerts, and card blocking/unblocking via the app.
Yes! Pluxee Specials offers exclusive discounts and cashback deals for food card holders.
Simply follow the activation link shared via SMS/email and complete your digital KYC. The food card auto-links to the Pluxee app.
Yes, but only for food and non-alcoholic beverage items from authorized outlets.
You can immediately block the card via the Pluxee app and request a replacement.
Unlike cash, the food card is tax-advantaged and ensures spending only on food, aligning with compliance requirements.
Yes! You can recommend outlets directly in the Pluxee app. Our team will try to onboard them.
Yes, after 3 years. Remaining balances can be transferred to a new card upon renewal.