Originally Posted by choosethedrew

…Unfortunately the crew lost it a little on the return SOF-LHR. It was a big CE cabin back to the exit rows. The meal service started at rows 1 and 5 simultaneously, the trolley being stationed at row 5 and doing that row rearwards, with rows 1 - 4 being hand run from the galley. 4F behind me got his special meal, the much-lauded chicken dinners were heading out of the galley at pace, and in 3F I was starting to think they would run out. Sadly there seemed to be a mix up and whilst 3AC got their trays, the food service from the galley then stopped. The trolley was dragged back into the galley from the rear, meaning that rows 5 - 13 had been served in the same timescale that the front 2.5 rows had, but 3DF and the rest of row 4 (save 4F) hadn’t received any food. At this point I went into annoyed meerkat mode and got the attention of the crew who finally clocked they had missed a front section of the cabin.

On these big CE cabins I will not be choosing rows 3 and 4 again for this reason.