A business lunch is often the right occasion to get to know new business partners better or to welcome new customers. Whether it's a long-planned business lunch in a chic restaurant or a short-term lunch in the bistro next door — such opportunities can be used to strengthen business relationships in the long term. After the meal is before payment and therefore before receipt of the receipt. Self-employed people and entrepreneurs are happy to receive the catering receipt after payment so that they can also deduct the business lunch for tax purposes. This hospitality receipt is still printed out today and is longer than the conventional receipt due to important information. But the hospitality receipt can now also be easily issued digitally with anybill. We explain how this works and when you actually need a hospitality receipt. When do you need a hospitality receipt? In order to be able to deduct the costs of a business lunch for tax purposes, a catering receipt must be filled out correctly. Here, a distinction must be made between business and operational catering costs. Business catering costs include catering for business partners and can be deducted from tax at 70%. If only employees without external partners are served, this corresponds to the operational catering costs, which can be deducted at 100%. However, in order to claim the restaurant bill for tax purposes, a simple receipt is not enough, so a catering receipt must be issued, filled out and signed. Next Level: The digital hospitality receipt Filling out the catering receipt is often not so easy: Sometimes a template can be found directly on the back of the receipt, sometimes it must also be requested from the restaurant staff. The digital hospitality receipt from anybill makes this process easier: It can be filled out with the anybill receipt app or completely without an app and immediately after receipt. Restaurant employees simply select in the cash register system that they want to issue a catering receipt. As a customer, you scan the QR code on the customer display as usual and the digital hospitality receipt opens on the smartphone. This saves both waiters and guests from having to fill out the receipt manually. The only requirement for this is that the restaurant has embedded anybill technology into the existing cash register system. Fill out the catering receipt — that's how it works! Whether digitally or on thermal paper — the catering receipt must be filled out correctly. In the digital option with anybill's hospitality receipt, all fields are shown one after the other, which means that you won't forget a field under any circumstances. It is particularly practical that the name and address of the restaurant, date and time, as well as all information about food and drinks and the resulting costs are already stored in the receipt. At the end, all you have to do is fill out the following: Information about the invoice recipient: the name of the host and the people being served The occasion of the hospitality signatureIf a digital receipt and therefore no digital hospitality receipt is offered yet, you must fill out the same points as in the digital hospitality receipt. You should pay particular attention to the fact that your catering receipt is complete: address and name of the restaurant Date on which the catering took place Information of all food and drinks, including their pricesDrinking money
