Providing 12% of all NFS meals and costing only 6% of the NFS budget is the Participating Venues channel. This channel of the NFS is an initiative to allow commercial food outlets to designate nutritionally-qualified menu items as their NFS “Meal of the Day” and receive the same per meal payment as the CFC channel. The programme expects this to scale up to half a million meals a day, with 30,000 outlets serving 20 meals a day. The quantity of meals available on any day will be at the venue’s discretion.
Once integrated with the Digital ID system, this allows any qualified citizen or resident to visit a participating venue, order any qualifying menu item, and “pay” with a tap of their phone, just like anyone else. The venue receives the compensation for each meal directly from the NFS at the fixed rate.