Staff Food and Drink Policy

A staff policy setting out what food and drink staff can have, when and where, what they pay, how it is recorded, and the rules on alcohol and drugs at work. It protects food safety and stock margins and helps keep staff meals within the tax exemption for meals provided on the employer’s premises.

• In any café, restaurant, pub, bar or takeaway that feeds staff or gives staff discounts
• When introducing or stopping shift drinks
• When dealing with grazing, unrecorded drinks or drinking on duty

• Choose your staff meal, discount and shift drink options in sections 5 to 8
• Fill in the times, allowances and areas, and the person who approves exceptions
• Set up till buttons for staff meals, staff drinks and waste so everything is recorded
• Brief staff and ask them to sign the acknowledgement at the end