The charts above 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. Summarise the data by selecting and reporting the main features and making comparisons where relevant.

The aforementioned line and pie graphs represent the percentage of families’ expenditure for eating outside and the number of meals eaten in junk

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and sit-down

restaurants

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from 1970 to 2000. In the big picture, it is conspicuous that the proportion of spending on

eat

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eating

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at home decreased in the observed periods.

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, there was an increasing trend in eating at the two types of

restaurants

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. Turning to the money spent, the highest spending on home cooking was in 1970 at 90% but

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continued to

decreased

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by 25% for 20 years.

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budget

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the budget

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for eating at

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skyrocketed from the lowest proportion (10%) to the most significant percentage of

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food

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the food

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budget at 35% in 2000. Moving to another chart, in 1990, even though both fast

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and sit-down

restaurants

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had the same number of visitors at just below 25, the figure for sit-down

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was higher than another group.

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at the end

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of

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the periods

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periods

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, fast

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meals surpassed at around 30

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in

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the

mid 1980s

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and

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reached a peak at around 80.