Rewards infrastructure for AfricaEmployee meal allowances
Give employees meal money without turning it into admin.
Set employer-funded meal allowances by employee or group, control how the benefit works and give employees a simple Meal Pass to use with participating food merchants.
How it works
Set the allowance. RibiRewards handles the programme around it.
Move from spreadsheets and reimbursement claims to a managed meal allowance with clear eligibility, employee access and programme visibility.
01
Choose who is eligible
Add employees or organise the workforce into programme groups.
02
Set the allowance
Define the value and allocation schedule that applies to each group.
03
Employees use Meal Pass
Eligible employees see their balance and use it with participating food merchants.
04
Track utilisation
See allocated value, redemption and programme usage from the employer side.
Programme control
One place to manage the programme.
Configure eligible employees, allowances, groups and programme rules, then see allocation, redemption and utilisation from the employer side.
Discuss your programmeMeal Pass experience
A meal allowance employees can actually understand and use.
Employees see the meal value available to them, discover participating food businesses and use Meal Pass without needing to submit ordinary meal reimbursement claims.
Build your programme
What the programme supports
Designed for real workforce needs.
Flexible allowances
Support different values and schedules for different employee populations.
Employee groups
Structure the benefit around teams, locations or agreed workforce groups.
Balance rules
Define how unused employer-funded value is treated within the programme.
Reporting
Understand allocation, redemption and utilisation without chasing expense claims.
Merchant acceptance
A benefit only works when employees can actually use it.
RibiRewards combines employee Meal Pass access with participating food merchants and a coverage model designed around where your workforce needs to eat.
The payment moment
Meal Pass becomes real at checkout.
Employees use their allocated meal value with approved merchants while the programme keeps the transaction tied to the employer-funded benefit.
Built for Africa
Coverage shaped around where your people are.
Programme availability and merchant coverage vary by market. RibiRewards designs deployments around the countries, cities and workforce locations the employer needs to support.
The Meal Pass system
One programme. Six connected parts.
Employer control, employee access, merchant acceptance, workforce coverage and the payment moment work together as one Meal Pass experience.
Meal Pass
Card + employee experience
Employer dashboard
Allocation, utilisation and group visibility
Employee experience
Balance, food discovery and recent activity
Payment moment
Meal Pass to merchant to approved payment
Merchant network
From established restaurants to local food businesses
Workforce coverage
Coverage designed around where employees are
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Can different groups receive different allowance values?+
Yes. The programme can be structured around agreed employee groups, with different allowance values or schedules.
Can allowances be recurring or once-off?+
The programme can support recurring or one-off allocations depending on the employer's requirements and agreed setup.
Can employers control where the allowance is used?+
Meal Pass is designed for participating and approved food merchants rather than unrestricted general spending.
Does RibiRewards provide reporting?+
The employer experience is designed to show allocation, redemption and utilisation at programme level.
RibiRewards Meal Pass