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.

The

chart

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

meals

and

home

cooking

while

the graph shows information about the number of

meals

eaten in sit-down

restaurants

and fast-food

restaurants

, and both the

chart

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

chart

, it is obvious that the percentage of

home

cooking decreased

whereas

the percentage of

restaurants

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

restaurants

;

however

,

while

sit-down restaurant

meals

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

meals

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

last

year. In the

chart

, in 1970,

home

cooking was nine times as much as

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restaurant, composed 90 to 10.

Nevertheless

, the figure for

home

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