The dilemma

It's 12:40 in the office kitchen. Maya, four years on your new team, taps the expense app, photographs her deli wrap, and submits. She catches your look. 'Policy says meals during work. I'm working, I'm eating.' She winks. Receipt: eleven pounds. You scroll the policy on your phone. Plenty of room. Maya, watching: 'Just don't go nuts, {{NAME}}. They tightened it once already, after the Berlin trip thing.'

Your options

1. Submit yours too. Pence per head per day across the team is a small win for everyone and a rounding error to the company.
2. Leave it. If everyone here did this, the perk dies for everyone, including the people who actually need the lunch money.
3. Ask Maya more about the Berlin tightening before you decide either way.