Lunch, better than a sandwich.
A real home-made dish, two streets from your office or your sofa. At the host’s table, or in a box to go: up to you.
A lunch, hour by hour.
- The day beforeBookYou see the dish, the host and your share. A seat at the table, or a box to go.
- 12:30 pmSit downThe dish comes out of the oven. Across from you: a neighbour, a student, a retiree full of stories.
- 1:15 pmCoffeePutting the world to rights in ten minutes.
- 1:30 pmBack to your deskYou ate a real meal, and you talked to someone. Not bad for a Tuesday.
Dishes for your lunch.
Blanquette de veau
Roast beef
Quinoa salad
Couscous royal
Vegetable gratin
Vegetable quiche
Watermelon and feta salad
One hour, on the dot.
The host can set an end time: you see « 12:30 – 1:30 pm » before you book, and the map shows the sqwats a stone’s throw from your office. Really short on time? Pick up a box to go.
- The start and end time, shown on every sqwat.
- The map, to find the nearest table.
Alone, with colleagues or with family.
On your lunch break, with a colleague, or on Sunday with the children and grandparents: there’s room at the table for everyone.
One request for everyoneYou treat them, or each pays their shareEven if they’re not on SqwatThe host says if children are welcome
The price of your lunchtime salad.
Your share costs as much as, or less than, the salad or sandwich you usually grab. Except it’s a real home-made dish, served at a table, and that’s a whole different thing.
Everything, explained.
How does to-go work?
You book your box like a seat, pick it up at the host’s, and eat wherever you like. Before paying, you know what’s in it, and whether to bring a container.
Can I bring my children?
Yes, if the host says children are welcome: they come in your request, and under-3s don’t pay.
How much does it cost, and how is the price worked out?
The app is free. The host estimates the groceries, and Sqwat splits them across every place, the host’s own included: the host pays their share like everyone else. The price shown includes the Sqwat fee (5 % plus €0.99 per place). It’s set from the start and doesn’t change, even if some places stay empty. Your card is held when you ask for a place, and only charged if the host accepts you.
Max price or fixed price: what’s the difference?
With a max price, you pay at most the price shown: after the meal, the host enters what they really spent, and you get the difference back. With a fixed price, you pay the price shown, whatever the receipt says. And in a private or secret sqwat, the host can also cover everything: their guests pay nothing.
What the tax office says: does the host make money?
At home, it’s cost sharing: as long as the host eats with their guests and what they pay doesn’t exceed the real cost of the groceries, it isn’t income. Anything the host receives above that is taxable income they must declare. That’s why Sqwat works out the price from the groceries. For to-go sqwats, the rule is stricter: one to-go sqwat a week at most (beyond that, it becomes a catering business, with a professional kitchen and licences), and what the host receives is taxable, even if it only pays back the groceries.
A sqwat for every moment.
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