The Fat Duck Melbourne: Controversy over ballot booking

be reached. It is important to note that although this has impacted us contacting the entrants after the ballot process – it did not impact any entrant’s chance of being selected.” “Whilst we can understand the disappointment of the entrants who have not received an email response,” Peter added, “Salmat can confirm that everyone who requested to be put on the waiting list via their ballot entry has been added.” Salmat has completed the ballot process and has provided an update to assure all entrants the process was fair and equal. Salmat have said there were 89,179 ballot entries in total, an average of 267, 537 seats requested. Of these, there were 2,944 disqualified entries as these were duplicate bids. A combined 544 unsuccessful and successful entries were unable to be contacted. This is due to bounce backs for various reasons including incorrect spelling, spam, and firewalls. The Fat Duck Melbourne is due to open in February. For more information, click here. By Tom Evans