The charts below show the percentage of the 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 pictures illustrate changes in families'

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spending habits from 1970 to 2000.

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the line graph gives information about

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number

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the number

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of

meals

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eaten in fast

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and

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sitdown

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sit-down

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restaurant

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restaurants

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the pie

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the percentage of the

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budget spent on

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meals

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during the same period.

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, there was a significant increase in the proportion of the

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budget that

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was used

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for eating out. At the same time, the

number

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of fast

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meals

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rose sharply,

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meals

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restaurant

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restaurants

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after 1980. In 1970, only 10% of the

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budget was spent on

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meals

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, so

remaining

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the remaining

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90% used

to

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on

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home cooking.

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trend

steadly

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steadily

shifted

after

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over

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the decades. By 1980, spending on restaurants

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rose to 15%,

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to 35% in 1990.

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, reached

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50% which means that an equal division between home cooking and eating out.

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the

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of

meals

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, both fast

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and

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sitdown

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restaurant

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meals

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increased steadily. In 1970, the average

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of

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for

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per person

in

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per year for both categories was under 20. By 1980,

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sitdown

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sit-down

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restaurants slightly

upwarded

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increased

fast

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meals

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( about 33 and 27).

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, fast

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consumption grew much faster afterwards, overtaking sit-down

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by 1990. In 2000, fast

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meals

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peaked at around 85 per year,

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sitdown

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meals

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reached just under 50.