The chart below show the percentage of their 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.

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shows information about the number percentages in the food budget spent on restaurant

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and

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cooking

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the graph shows information about the number of

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eaten in sit-down

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and fast-food

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, and both the

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and graph are in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. As can be seen from the

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, it is obvious that the percentage of

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cooking decreased

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the percentage of

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increased. In the graph, there was an increase in both fast food and sit-down

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;

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,

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sit-down restaurant

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increased gradually, from 20 in 1970 to 50 in 2000, fast food

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rose dramatically, starting at 20 and reaching a peak at 80 in the

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year. In the

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, in 1970,

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cooking was nine times as much as

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restaurant, composed 90 to 10.

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, the figure for

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cooking dropped slowly year on year and in 2000 both figures were the same amount with 50.