I’ve seen this happen plenty of times. It’s not a case of people come to read the Quran, the actually come for the food and to socialise. It’s a sad sign of the times.
We’ve decided to not hold many Quranhanis amongst friends/people we know instead we just read as a family, or over a period of time. Some have branded us ‘cheap’ for doing and I heard from a ‘friend’ that we were branded cheap ‘because we didn’t do a Quranhani and feed the women’. Yeah, getta life!
To be honest when my Nani passed away we were in such a state of shock none of us really bothered eating for a few days. The visitors coming to our house were pretty much the same.