Originally Posted by
syrwhizzy
That's hilarious if true... but shows a lack of resourcefulness, only offer hot meals to the first 16 people that submit requests. Once 16 hot meals are spoken for, don't offer a meal choice button. Seems like a simple fix to a simple problem. It's not uncommon for the last 4 seats up front to be filled within a day of departure, so this would be a non-issue anyway, since day of departure upgrades don't meet the 24 hour advance notice needed to fulfil the meal.
ah yes definitely telling the people who buy full fare last-minute J that they can't have hot food because the Z tickets already reserved them all will be a "simple" fix and have no blowback at all.
not sure why "heat half the meals, remove those from the oven then heat the other half while serving the first bunch" wouldn't work, it typically takes so long to get meals out to everyone that I doubt anyone would even notice.