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 pie chart provides the proportion of the average cost in a family's

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in restaurant

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and home cooking, and the line graph compares the

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of

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taken in fast

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and traditional

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over a period of 30 years.

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the pie chart, there is a decrease that can be seen in the percentage of accounts

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eating outside from 1970 to 2000. In 1970, the family spent exactly 90% of their

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budget

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on having

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in

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,

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home cooking cost only 10% of the account.

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, the proportion of people spending on preparing

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at home increased steadily, from 15% to 50% from 1980 through 2000, whilst the

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on having

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outside decreased year by year, from 85% to 50%. In the curve graph, we can see that there are increasing trends in both the

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of

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that chose fast foods and conventional

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. In 1970, the

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of these choices was equal, with precisely 20

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per year in each.

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, during the 1980s and 1990s, the

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of people choosing junk

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jumped rapidly, from almost 30% to over half,

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the

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of

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in sit-down

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grew steadily.

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the

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restaurants

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decreased from 1970 through 2000. Simultaneously, people tended to have fast

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as a meal, compared to having regular

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.