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The given illustration compares the amounts spent on
restaurant
foods
and home ‎cooking
foods
in four different years and gives data on the number of
meals
eaten ‎in two different
restaurant
types.‎ As is presented in the pie chart,
initially
in 1970, 90% of the total food budget ‎was spent on
home-made
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homemade
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foods
while only 10% was spent on
restaurant
foods
. ‎The amount spent on
restaurant
meals
increased to 15% in 1980 while it reached ‎‎35% in 1990.
Finally
, in 200, an average family spent half of the total budget on ‎
restaurant
meals
, which shows a rapid increase in the people’s habit of having ‎
meals
in restaurants.‎ In the line graph, we can observe that in 1970, the fast
foods
and sit-down ‎
restaurant
meals
were taken 20 persons, and times each, and over time, these ‎numbers kept increasing.
Finally
, in 2000, more than 90
personsand
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persons and
persons
fast food ‎
meals
were eaten while sit-down
restaurant
meals
were eaten 50
personsand
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persons and
times ‎a year. It indicates the changes in people’s habit of eating out and the popularity ‎of
restaurant
foods
over
home-made
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homemade
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foods
.‎ Overall, over 30 years, people adopted eating out at restaurants, and sit-down ‎restaurants gained more popularity over the fast-food shops.‎
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