The charts below show the percentage of 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 charts below show the percentage of 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 average family expenditure on
food
over a 30-year period,
while
the line graph compares the number of
meals
served in fast
food
restaurants
and sit-down
restaurants
annually from 1970 to 2000.
Overall
, there was an increased tendency for families to dine at
restaurants
, and home-cooked
meals
were no longer dominant in family
meals
.
Moreover
, it is apparent that fast
food
meals
were preferred
at the end
of the period. To be more specific, home cooking was still the most popular way in 1970, as an average family spent 90% of their total
food
budget on home-cooked
food
while
only one-tenth of the money was spent on
restaurants
.
However
, the ratio of home-cooked
meals
dropped continuously,
whereas
the opposite happened to eat out at
restaurants
throughout the years. In 2000, there was no difference between the two of them, both comprised half of the total
food
spending of a family. Moving to the line graph, the number of
meals
served in both fast
food
and sitdown
restaurants
started at 20 in 1970 and increased to 28 and 32 respectively.
Although
both showed a steady rise over time, the number of fast
food
meals
demonstrated a dramatic escalation, more than tripling to around 85%, doubling that of sit-down
restaurants
in the final year.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words food, meals, restaurants with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Percentage of food budget
  • Fast food restaurants
  • Sit-down restaurants
  • Trends
  • Increase/decrease
  • Rise in popularity
  • Gradual rise
  • Cultural factors
  • Economic growth
  • Busy lifestyles
  • Changing societal norms
  • Proliferation
  • Casual dining experiences
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