The charts 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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given pie charts

compared

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the proportion of finances

which

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spent on either

restaurant

food

or home cooking during 30 years from 1970 to 2000,

while

the given line graph illustrates the amount of 2 different

meals

throughout the period.

Overall

, as the

year

increased, more money was spent on

restaurant

meals

rather than home-cooking

food

.

Additionally

, even though fast

food

meals

saw a drop in

consumption

during the first 10 years, it was mostly consumed when compared to

restaurant

meals

throughout the timeframe. With regards to the pie charts where the

food

budget spent on

restaurant

meals

made up 10% in the

year

1980. As for the finances paid for the

restaurant

food

, it

then

rose up over 5 times from 10% to 50% in 2000, on par with the cost of cooking at home. Turning the focus on the line graph

which

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both fast

food

and

restaurant

meals

saw an increase in

consumption

, with 20

meals

per

year

each by 1980. In terms of the

consumption

of the

restaurant

food

, it went up gradually to nearly 45

meals

per

year

until the end of the period. Meanwhile,

consumed

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fast

food

surged to exceed

restaurant

food

consumption

at around 38

meals

per

year

between 1980 and 1990 before reaching the high of precisely 90

meals

per

year

in 2000.