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 first pie chart gives us pieces of data about the habits of people eating at home or in

restaurants

over 3 decades from 1970 to 2000

while

the line graph below is a comparison between the number of people eating fast

food

meals

or sitdown

restaurant

meals

.

Overall

,

it is clear that

spending money on

restaurant

meals

was already an upward trend and it is even more true when we talk about fast

food

. Indeed, from the first chart we learn that the percentage of

food

budget spent on

restaurant

meals

had multiplied by 5 from 1970 to 2000. Indeed , 10% of the

food

budget was destinated for

restaurants

in 1970, 15% in 1980, more than the double

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1980 in 1990 with 35%, to

finally

arrived in 2000 with an equal budget for home cooking and

restaurant

meals

.

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second time, the curve from the second chart shows us that eating

meals

at

restaurants

is becoming more and more famous.

However

, even

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in 1970 there were as

much

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people eating fast

food

meals

as sit-down

restaurant

meals

. A gap between these two categories appeared in 1980. Indeed,

while

the

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in popularity of

restaurants

tend to slow down, the number of fast

food

meals

per person sharply climbed from 30

meals

per year in 1980 to 90 in 2000.