«وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنِ الْأَوَّلُ قَابِلًا لِلِامْتِدَادِ، وَالْآخَرُ صَالِحًا لِلْغَايَةِ، وَصَلَحَ الْأَوَّلُ سَبَبًا وَالْآخَرُ جَزَاءً يُحْمَلُ عَلَى الْجَزَاءِ»
Where the first act cannot continue and the second can serve as its consequence, hatta is construed through a cause-result relationship.
Coming to visit is an event rather than an action extended over the time until the host serves a meal. Feeding can instead be the consequence or purpose connected with coming.
This is a different interpretive structure from an act literally continuing until an endpoint.