DEN Employee Meal Card

DEN employees working at DEN on specific holidays and significant airport related events that require employees to work extended hours of operation to ensure DEN’s operations are maintained may be eligible for a $20 meal card to use at a designated DEN concessionaire to purchase food and non-alcoholic beverages.

Your meal card can be used within 5-7 calendar days of receipt (timeframe determined by division leadership) and can be used at participating restaurants.

The card can only be used to purchase food and non-alcoholic beverages at participating DEN concessions.

The card cannot be used to pay for tips.  Tips must be paid separately by the employee.

Some concessionaires may choose not to offer the employee discount when accepting the card or may not offer the discount if the purchase is less than $20.

If you choose to purchase food/beverage costing more than the value of the card, you will be responsible for the additional cost.  No change will be given if the value of the card is not redeemed.

If the concessionaire is unfamiliar with the program or chooses not to accept the card, please do not argue with them.  You can either use your card at another participating concessionaire or may purchase and submit a request for reimbursement up to the $20 value with receipt.

If the concessionaire refuses to accept the meal card, provide your division point of contact with the information so the issue can be resolved for the future.

Each division has a primary point of contact for the program.  Contacts for 2026/2027 are as follows:

• GCM/Customer Service/Volunteer Programs – Karen Carelli & Whitney Schulkoski
• Airport Operations – Oliver Zornoza
• Maintenance – Wendy Andino
• Parking & Commercial Transportation – Jean Toure

You can also email questions, feedback, and concerns to [email protected]

DEN employees working at DEN on specific holidays and significant airport related events that require employees to work extended hours of operation to ensure DEN’s operations are maintained may be eligible for a $20 meal card to use at designated DEN concessionaires to purchase food and non-alcoholic beverages.

If you have chosen to participate in the program, you are required to accept the meal card.

Concessionaires are required to ensure their employees are educated on the program and know to accept the meal card as payment for food and non-alcoholic beverages.

Concessionaires are encouraged to place the educational memo from DEN next to their POS for employees to reference.

The participating concessionaire will establish their own internal draw reconciliation process when accepting the card.   If the concessionaire accepts a card after the expiration date they will not be reimbursed.

If the employee chooses to purchase food/beverage that costs less than the meal card value, change will not be given, the concessionaire will retain any remaining funds and will receive the $20 card value.

If the employee chooses to purchase food/beverage costing more than the value of the card, the employee will be responsible for the additional cost.

The card cannot be used for tipping; any tips must be paid by the employee.

You can also email questions, feedback, and concerns to [email protected]

The DEN Accounting team will visit the participating concessionaires within 14 days of the distribution date of the card to collect the cards redeemed. Outside of these designated times the concessionaire can email [email protected] to request card collection and payment and ask questions.

The Accounting team will make payment at the time the cards are collected from the concessionaire using a department Pcard.

The concessionaire will be required to provide DEN Accounting with a receipt to show payment for the redeemed cards were paid in full.

If the concessionaire is unable to accept the Pcard for payment, they can mail the cards and associated receipts/payment records notating the calendar year the cards were redeemed at DEN using the contact/address below.

Denver International Airport
Attn: Kamilah Thompson, Accounting Manager
8500 Peña Blvd.
Room 4779
Denver, CO 80249-6340