The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate in fast food restaurants between 2003 and 2013. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides detailed data about the proportion of Americans who dined in fast

food

restaurants

with different frequencies in 2003, 2006 and 2013. It is noticeable that the most common frequency of eating fast

food

was once a week and once or twice a month

however

only a very small number of people reported never eating at fast

food

restaurants

or eating there every day. In detail, the rate of Americans who ate in fast

food

restaurants

once a week fluctuated between 27-32% over the three years whilst 25 -32% of people dined in there once or twice a month.

By contrast

, around 3 -5% of Americans ate at fast

food

restaurants

every day or never at all. Regarding those who frequented fast

food

restaurants

several times a week, the percentage ranged from 16 to 20%

while

the population of people with only a few times a year was slightly lower at 13% in 2003 and 15% for both 2006 and 2013.