The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate in fast food restaurants between 2003 and 2013.

The bar chart provided depicts the frequency of eating in fast food restaurants among Americans, considering six distinct categories from 2003 to 2013.

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, as can be vividly seen from the graph, every day and never usage classes experienced a sight decline during the interval given,

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the pattern for eating a few

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a year was upward.

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, the figures for two categories, namely Several

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a week and Once a week, decreased with a fluctuation,

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the pattern for Once or twice a month was exactly the opposite. As illustrated by the chart, commencing at 5% and just under 5%, the number of people who ate fast food never and every day dropped somewhat to around 4% and 2.5% in 2013, respectively.

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, the figures for people who went to a fast food restaurant a few

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each year rose considerably from approximately 12.5% in 2003 to 15% in 2013.

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, the figures for Once and several

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a week witnessed an increase from nearly 30% and around 16% to almost 33% and 20% before falling sharply to approximately 27% and 15.5%, respectively. Once or twice each month category,

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, underwent a drastic rise from 25% to almost 33% in 2013 after declining tremendously by 5% in 2006.