How To Enter

ENTRIES NOW OPEN

Entries are now open for the 2021 Your Local Club Perfect Plate Awards.

The competition is open to all member clubs in NSW until 5pm Monday 19 April 2021.

Register for your 2021 Perfect Plate Awards account here.

This account will give you access to the entry submission page and key information you will need throughout the competition.

Already signed up? Login here.

Decide on a competition dish to be listed on your menu for the duration of the competition (29 April – 21 June 2021). This can be a current dish on your menu or you can create something new, but it must be a full-priced main meal item, with no discount.

Submit your entry online. Please note - you will need the following information to submit your entry:

- Name of dish
- Chef's name
- Sale price

Clubs with multiple eateries are permitted to enter a different dish for each restaurant if they wish. However, each dish must be unique.

Upon successful registration, you will receive a confirmation email and access to some initial digital marketing assets that you may use in-venue to promote your participation in the Perfect Plate Awards.

Best of luck!

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Clubs will be divided into the 13 ClubsNSW regions, and into small, medium and large categories, based on membership numbers:

- Small = 0 - 5,000
- Medium = 5,001 – 30,000
- Large = 30,001+

Clubs are encouraged to update their membership figures with the Member Enquiries Centre to ensure accuracy of category placement

ClubsNSW will impose entry thresholds for each category to ensure fairness of overall scoring. These thresholds will not be disclosed to ensure the integrity of the competition.

Once a club reaches a certain number of entries, they will then officially be eligible to compete.

Entries for member clubs open on Tuesday 23 March and close on Monday 19 April 2021.

ClubsNSW will distribute marketing collateral to participating clubs to assist with in-house promotion of their dish and the competition

Diners will be encouraged to purchase the club’s competition dish, scan a unique QR code and fill out the online voting form. As part of the voting process, diners will be required to complete mandatory data collection fields, including their name, phone number, email, an image upload of their receipt, and a rating for the dish between 1.0 and 5.0.

For diners without smartphones or who would prefer not to use the digital entry form, each club will be given paper forms. These diners must attach their receipt to the form as proof of purchase and leave it with the club. The club will then manually input the data into the digital system to align all entries.

Diners are only permitted to vote once per club restaurant - duplicate votes will not be counted.

Diners are permitted and encouraged to travel to multiple venues clubs across the state to try their competition dishes and vote. All unique votes will be counted towards the diner’s overall tally.

Incentives for diners: Dining vouchers are on offer for patrons who visit the most clubs and vote for the competition dishes throughout the duration of the campaign.

Public voting commences on Thursday, 29 April and ends on Monday, 21 June 2021.

At the end of the competition period, all votes will be tallied to determine the winners from each region, and the overall winners from the small, medium and large club categories. Scores will be tallied up based on the average rating multiplied by the number of votes received.

The club with the highest overall score in each region will win that region.

The club with the highest overall score in their own category (small, medium or large) will win that category.

Votes will also be tallied to determine the Club Diner Award winners in each region, as well as the overall winner.

The diner with the highest number of unique votes in each region will be deemed the winner of each region.

The diner with the highest number of unique votes overall will be deemed the overall Club Diner Award winner.

The Perfect Plate Awards Night will be held at Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf on Wednesday, 7 July 2021.

Our Ambassadors

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ClubsNSW has engaged celebrity chefs Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge as ambassadors for the Perfect Plate Awards.

Manu Feildel

- Australia’s Got Talent judge.
- Creator of ‘The Sauce by Manu’ sauce range.
- Former co-host of My Kitchen Rules.
- Author of Manu’s French Kitchen, Manu’s French Bistro, French for Everyone and More Please!

Colin Fassnidge

- Contestant on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
- Former judge on My Kitchen Rules.
- Executive Chef at the Banksia Bistro and designer of the menu at Terminus Pyrmont.
- Author of Four Kitchens and The Commonsense Cook.

Manu and Colin will be encouraging clubs to take part in the competition and will be visiting several regions to raise awareness and drum up public support for the campaign.

How to Win

The aim of the game is to create a dish that appeals to a wide audience, with a sale price deemed to be achievable for most patrons.

Clubs are encouraged to get creative when it comes to marketing their competition dish.

TIP: Clever marketing means more votes!

Upon successful registration, you will receive a confirmation email and access to some initial digital marketing assets that you may use in-venue to promote your participation in the 2021 Perfect Plate Awards.

In the meantime, if you would like to start promoting your participation in the 2021 Perfect Plate Awards, you can download some digital 'teaser' files HERE*. These are for use on internal club TV screens and digital point-of-sale devices. Files are in landscape (x4) and portrait (x4) formats.

Best of luck!

*-These files are not designed for print. ClubsNSW will provide additional print assets closer to the commencement of public voting.

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Competition Integrity

All competition entries and diner votes are actively monitored by a team of independent scrutineers to ensure there are no suspicious voting patterns or duplicate entries from the same patron.

If duplicate entries from individual diners are detected, they will be removed from their overall voting tally.

If a pattern of suspicious votes emerges for a club/clubs, an investigation into the source of those votes will be carried out. If it is found that a club/employee has attempted to forge/duplicate votes to enhance the venue’s overall score, that venue will be disqualified from the competition. Full terms and conditions of the promotion are available here

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Perfect Plate Partners

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A big thanks to our Perfect Plate Partners - Anchor Food Professionals, Carlton & United Breweries, Kraft Heinz and Treasury Wine Estates - and to our Awards Dinner Partner, Doltone House.