If you're reporting your rental income/expenses on SCH E, then you can't have W-2 employees, as there's nowhere to report what you pay employees on SCH E. At best, they would be contractors to whom you would issue (if required) a 1099-NEC. Therefore, there would be no employees, and there's no deductions for "any" meals anywhere on the SCH E.
If you have employees that work for and get paid by you on a regular basis, then it "sounds" to me like you're running a hotel/motel/AirB&B/VRBO type of operation where houses or units are rented for short periods of time. That would be a SCH C business; not SCH E.
