Is it permissible to sell the two meals allotted to me daily by the restaurant owner, or to exchange them with another person, in order to buy other food?

It is permissible to sell or exchange the two meals if the restaurant owner has transferred ownership of the two meals to the worker, which is often part of the agreed-upon wage. However, selling them to restaurant customers is generally prohibited unless with the permission of the restaurant owner. If it is merely a permission to consume, and not an act of ownership transfer, then it is not permissible to dispose of them by selling, exchanging, or giving them away. Rather, they should be eaten or left, because permission to eat differs from ownership, and this is what the jurists have stipulated.