To explore in greater detail the possibility of fomite versus airborne transmission of noroviruses, we reassessed the evidence in support of airborne transmission in a norovirus outbreak at a hotel restaurant in the UK in 1998  by testing whether the alternative fomite transmission route could have led to a similar pattern of secondary cases. The original investigation concluded that the outbreak was due to airborne transmission because the authors assumed that only the airborne route could have resulted in an attack rate that exhibited an inverse relationship with the distance from the index patient . Here, we demonstrate that with some waiters’ serving pathways and parameter values, a fomite transmission route could produce a similar pattern of secondary cases.