Canteen, cafeteria and mess management across India

Find your state on the regions list: each regional page names the cities it covers. For example, Gurugram and Noida are on the Delhi NCR page, Hosur is on Chennai & Tamil Nadu, Sri City is on Visakhapatnam & Andhra Pradesh, and Nagpur's MIHAN is on Mumbai & Pune. If your city isn't listed, request a demo on the contact page and name your city.

Yes, for larger sites. Section 24 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, in force since 21 November 2025, requires a canteen wherever 100 or more workers, including contract labour, are ordinarily employed. The Factories Act threshold had been 250 workers. Detailed canteen standards come from central or state OSH rules, which states are notifying at different speeds.

From 1 April 2026, Rule 15(5)(a) of the Income-tax Rules, 2026 treats food and non-alcoholic drinks an employer provides during working hours, at the workplace or through meal vouchers, as tax-free up to ₹200 per meal. The earlier limit was ₹50, and the exemption now applies under both the old and new tax regimes.

MealPe replaces token books and cash counters with digital ordering and payment, paper registers and guessed plate counts with verified meal records, and a separate POS at every counter with one system. Vendors in multi-vendor food courts are settled automatically, and employers get reports for billing, subsidies and audits instead of reconciling paper by hand.

Yes. All ten regions run on the same MealPe platform, so an employer with offices in Gurugram, a plant in Sanand and a capability centre in Hyderabad uses one system. Each site keeps its own vendors, menus and rules, including state canteen standards, while the company works with a single platform instead of a different POS at every counter.

Yes, through MedMeals, MealPe's hospital and patient meal management software, which takes diet orders through to bedside delivery and runs at medmeals.mealpe.app. Staff cafeterias in the same hospital can run on MealPe's cafeteria software, so patient meals and staff food sit with one company in every region.

Request a demo on the MealPe contact page, or call or WhatsApp the MealPe team directly. Share where your site is, how many meals a day it serves and who runs the counters today, and the team will point you to the right setup and region.