Is it permissible for an employee for whom the company has allocated a sum for food at a hotel to ask the accountant to add the price of the food to the bill without paying it, so that he may use the amount to buy food from outside the hotel?

If a company designates a hotel for its employees to stay in and eat from its restaurant, and requests an invoice from the designated hotel, it is not permissible for the employee to collude with the hotel to add unconsumed amounts to the same hotel’s bill, even if these amounts were consumed at another restaurant. This is because it constitutes lying and betrayal. The correct approach is to inform the company of the unwillingness to eat at the hotel’s restaurant, so that a solution can be found.