CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program

The CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program enables elderly and/or disabled individuals and their spouses, or homeless CalFresh households to use EBT CalFresh benefits in order to purchase prepared meals at participating restaurants.

Per FNS and the CDSS, gift card purchases (even for the cards that are only redeemable for food) are NOT eligible for RMP. The RMP is only for meals purchased by eligible elderly, homeless or disabled CalFresh households at 
approved restaurants.

Refer to Homeless Households and Elderly or Disabled [63-102(e)(i)] in the CalFresh Handbook for detailed policy information on homeless, disabled and elderly CalFresh households.

All household members eligible for RMP, are entitled to participate, whether or not they choose to use their EBT CalFresh benefits to purchase meals at the participating restaurants. These household  members must have their EBT card coded appropriately, in the Maintain Card Requests window, in 
order for them to be able to purchase prepared meals from participating restaurants with their EBT cards. 

For a list of approved vendors refer to CDSS Restaurant Meals Program website. The flyer “CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program” (SCD 208) is also included in the RRR packets for Change Reporting Households”.