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

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over a 30-year period,

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the line graph compares the number of

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served in fast

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restaurants

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and sit-down

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annually from 1970 to 2000.

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, there was an increased tendency for families to dine at

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, and home-cooked

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were no longer dominant in family

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.

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, it is apparent that fast

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were preferred

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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

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budget on home-cooked

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only one-tenth of the money was spent on

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.

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, the ratio of home-cooked

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dropped continuously,

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the opposite happened to eat out at

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throughout the years. In 2000, there was no difference between the two of them, both comprised half of the total

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spending of a family. Moving to the line graph, the number of

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served in both fast

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and sitdown

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started at 20 in 1970 and increased to 28 and 32 respectively.

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both showed a steady rise over time, the number of fast

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demonstrated a dramatic escalation, more than tripling to around 85%, doubling that of sit-down

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in the final year.