The charts below show 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 chart illustrates the proportion of the average money spent on

meals

by some families over the period of 30 years,

while

the line graph illustrates the figure for meal sources comparing fast food and general

restaurants

from 1970 to 2000.

Overall

, there is an upward trend of restaurant

meals

,

in contrast

, there is a downward trend of homemade

meals

.

In addition

, both fast food and traditional

restaurants

display an increasing tendency for the whole period.

According to

the pie graph, taking

meals

at

restaurants

showed the least percentage at 10% in 1970 and

then

there was a slight increment at 15% in 1980,

however

, it reached the highest point at 50% which was a similar rate to having

meals

at home in 2000. As can be seen in the line chart, the

meals

from both fast food and sit-down places represented the same figure as 20 times per year in 1970,

nevertheless

, the rate of having

meals

from junk cuisine service dramatically increased to approximately 90 times a year in 2000. Obviously, at the same time,

meals

at conventional

restaurants

were presented about 50 times a year.