The chart shows the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants

The pie charts illustrated

food

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budget

ratio between dining out and home cooking the typical families spent in four different years from 1970 to 2000 with ten years gap. The ratio had grown progressively in

favor

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of dining out in that period of time. The family had spent five times more on

restaurant

meals

in 2000 than they did in 1970. In 2000, half of the

budget

had been spent on

restaurant

meals

while

only 10%

were

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spent on

it

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in 1970.

While

the eating out

budget

portion increased by 5% and 15% compared

from

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the previous decade in 1980 and 2000, respectively, the significant increasement happened in 1990. The

budget

had raised by 20% from the previous decade.

While

the pie chart depicted the

food

budget

comparison between dining out and eating at home, the line graph represented the

number

of

meals

per

year

of

dinning

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out between the same period of time and the same 10 years gap. It specifically compared

between

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the

number

of fast

food

meals

eaten per

year

and the

number

of sit-down

restaurant

meals

eaten per

year

, as indicated by

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line and segmented line, respectively. In 1970, the

number

was the same between

of

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fast

food

and of

sit-down

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a sit-down

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restaurant

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restaurants

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, which was 40

meals

eaten per

year

. Both numbers increased steadily but the

number

of fast

food

meal per

year

were always bigger from 1970 until the middle of 1980

,

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when both numbers became equal again. From that

year

onward until 2000, the

number

of sit-down

restaurant

meals

had increased significantly and had never been surpassed by the

number

of fast

food

meals

which had been increasing

also

but not that fast.