Originally Posted by ksingh0311

Yes, of course average person can go 9 hours without eating. But that's what most people would've already done during the night!! Add another 9 hours to that, it makes almost approaching 18 hours!!

As I said that situation could've been easily avoided by allowing people to go out and have another 30 minutes of delay, rather than have them starving, angry and grumbling. ORD is a huge airport, and eateries there could easily handle another 150 people coming out at once and grabbing a quick bite to eat. Heck, buses with 50 people do that routinely - and with just 20 minutes of stop in a refreshment area on a long haul route.