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 charts give the average household budgets for eating out in various

years

, given as percentages,

along with

a line chart comparing the differentiation between eating in fast

food

restaurants

and sit-down

restaurants

from 1970 to 2000. Generally speaking, home cooking was significantly reduced through the period. The

number

of

meals

in fast

food

restaurants

sharply grew and eventually more than the

number

of

meals

in sit-down

restaurants

. As is given in illustrations, in 1970, people cooked at home amounted to 90% and ate out 10%. Ten

years

and twenty

years

after, the majority of them still cooked themselves and their budgets for home cooking secured at 85% and 65% respectively.

However

, three decades later, the

number

of restaurant

meals

significantly increased by 40%, reaching 50%, which equalled cooking. In detail, in 1970, the

number

of sit-down eating was 20

meals

a year

as

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the same as fast

food

meals

. In 1980, people preferred eating in sit-down

restaurants

to having fast

food

meals

by roughly 5

meals

per

years

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. Since the middle of 1980, fast

food

dramatically increased and

tookover

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took over

sitdown

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restaurants

in

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the end of the 90s,

moreover

, it reached approximately 90 times a year in 2000.