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

#percentage #food #budget #restaurant #meals #years #restaurants
The charts illustrate the proportions of the average family expenditure on
restaurants
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restaurant
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food
 and
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homemade
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home made
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homemade
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meals
 in different years.
In addition
, the graph shows the number of
meals
 eaten in fast
food
 and sit-down
restaurants
. Overall, it is clear from the data that the popularity of fast
food
between
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among
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 families increased significantly throughout the years compared to the consumption of
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homemade
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home made
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homemade
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food
. Whereas picking
food
 from
restaurants
 in 2000, became more common than eating it inside these
restaurants
. Focusing on the expenses, people were used to
cook
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cooking
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 their
meals
 in their homes in 1970, where they used to spend 90% of
food
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their food
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 budget on groceries.
However
,
this
 proportion
was
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decreased slightly by 5% in 1980, as
families
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families'
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 fast
food
 expenses were
third
 of
total
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the total
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 budget.
Furthermore
, consuming
restaurants
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restaurant
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food
 increased significantly to 35% of the catering budget in 1990, while
home
 cooking costs a family 65%
at
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in
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 the same
year
. In 2000, the
families
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family's
families'
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 finances for
food
 were
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split
splited
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split
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 equally between cooking at
home
 and
food
of
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from
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restaurants
. Turning to the number of
fast
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fast-food
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food
meals
, the amounts of fast
food
 and dining
meals
 were identical in 1970,
where
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 both began at 20
meals
 per
year
 per family. These figures
were
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rose in 1980, as
it
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they
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 reached between 32
meals
 per
year
 for dined
food
 and 29
meals
 for fast
food
. Focusing on fast
food
meals
,
it
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 numbers soared to about 51
meals
 annually in 1990,
then
 witnessed a significant jump to 85
meals
 in 2000.
In contrast
, the number of consumed
food
in
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at
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 dining tables was increased gradually to 44 and 48
meals
 per
year
 in 1990 and 2000 respectively.
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