Meals - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Individual? Capped or Not?

[zprebeck]

Hi everyone,

We are taking a look at our Expense Policy and were wondering how others handle meals.

• Do you currently require employees to split meals out to breakfast, lunch and dinner? Or, do you just have them classify it as an individual or group meal?
• Do you place limits on each category or in total? Or, do you just allow employees to expense something reasonable?

For us, we currently ask employees to only split between group or individual meals (i.e. they don't classify as breakfast, lunch or dinner). We also don't set a hard cap limit but ask that managers check for reasonableness.

Thanks,

Zach

[AshleyB]

Hi Zach,

Thanks for posting!

You are not alone in looking for per diem best practices. ThisPer Diem Travel Allowancepost and this one onBusiness Meals with Attendeesalso cover the topic and have some good insights.

Thistraining resourcemight also help you as you look at meal allowances.

Hope this helps!