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 charts and the line graph show information about the proportion of

food

budget spent on

restaurant

meals

versus home cooking, and how many

meals

are eaten in

fast-

food

restaurants

versus sit-down

restaurants

(1980,1990,2000, and 2010). The pie charts show the lowest budget spent on

restaurant

meals

before it increased to half in 2010. The line graph shows a sharp increase in the number of

meals

eaten in

fast-

food

restaurants

. The pie charts illustrate the lowest change in the percentage of the

food

budget spent on

restaurant

meals

. In 1980, the rate was 10%. After ten tears, it became 15%, in 2000, shows a slight increase to 35%. In 2010, spent on

restaurant

meals

had the same percentage of home cooking, 50%.

On the other hand

,

fast-

food

and sit-down

restaurants

started at the same level with 20

meals

/per

year

in 1980. After that, sit-down

restaurant

meals

increased to almost 35

meals

/per

year

in 1990,

while

fast

food

gradually increased to 29

meals

/per

year

in the same period. From 1990 to 2000. there was a sharp increase in

fast-

food

meals

from 29 to 55

meals

/per

year

,

while

sit-down

restaurants

increased to 45

meals

/per

year

. After ten years, fast

food

reached almost 85

meals

/per

year

, compared with sit-down

restaurant

meals

, which has slightly increased to 50

meals

/per

year

.