FAQ

The World Gourmet Awards, formerly known as the Awards of Excellence, is an industry recognition programme that acknowledges individuals and organisations who make significant contributions to the development of the F&B and hospitality industries.

Moving on to the 19th Year, WGA will recognise 38 awardees on 22nd April 2019, coinciding with the opening of the World Gourmet Summit 2019.
You may nominate a personality or/and an establishment that you think deserves to be recognized. For example, if you have dined in at Restaurant ABC, and you feel that they deserve the Restaurant of the Year award based on the given criteria, you may nominate them for this category.
The evaluation process consists of three rounds. In the first round, voting and nominations will be open to the members of the public. Nominations and votes are collated and tabulated. The 10 highest scoring nominees for each award category will be selected to proceed onto Round 2.

In the second round, a selected group of F&B professionals and connoisseurs are invited to vote in all award categories in a closed round of voting. Nominations are collated and tabulated and the top five highest scoring nominees for each award category will proceed to the final round for final assessment.

In the final round, a selected group of key industry decision makers will evaluate the finalists and select the most outstanding finalist. Results are then submitted to an independent auditor. 
Nominations for Round 1 will begin on the 22nd of October 2018 until January 2019. The results will be released publicly on 21st of January 2019.
You can choose to. However, you are only required to nominate industry professionals that you know of. Even better if you have experienced their talent firsthand!
Each person is entitled to vote / nominate only once per award.
After the tabulation, the top 10 nominees will move on to Round 2 as semi-finalists, and top 5 will move on to round 3 as finalists respectively.

Please refer to the Evaluation Process for more details.
Yes. For employees of establishments who wish to cast their votes, please note that our voting system is tied to IP address. This would mean that only a single vote can be casted on a shared wifi address.
Members of the public are welcome to vote for their favourite establishment or preferred candidate by heading to our voting page http://wgsawards.com/wga2019/main.php/vote/. Establishments are highly encouraged to share the WGA E-Newsletters and posts that we blast out using their own database of contacts to spread the word.

Please note that you will be required to adhere to the Branding & Logo Application Guidelines when using any materials (photo, logo etc) related to WGA.
Publicity materials: Available on our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn & WGA website)
Photos: Available in the Gallery section of our website.

Most importantly, please note that you will be required to adhere to the Branding & Logo Application Guidelines when using any materials (photo, logo etc) related to WGA. Please email Ms Eidelweis at eidelweis.nordin@wgs.sg to request for the guidelines.

The Awards Ceremony is only by-invitation.
Please contact the project lead, Ms Eidelweis at +65 6377 6011 or you may wish to email her at eidelweis.nordin@wgs.sg.
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES, PERKS AND OTHERS

We organise weekly giveaways on our social media platforms, exclusively for public voters. The mechanics are as follows;

1. Registration and voting is required in order to qualify for the weekly lucky draw with over S$500 worth of gift and dining vouchers to be won.

2. Each individual is only eligible to one prize. Winning a prize will result in said individual being withdrawn from all remainder draws for the year.

3. Winners are announced on this website and on our social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), so stay tuned for updates.

4. Winners will be notified by phone or email. 

5. Winners of the lucky draw will be required to collect their prize within two weeks from notification. All unclaimed prizes will be forfeited.