The bar chart compares how often Americans ate at fast
food
restaurants in 2003, 2008, and 2013. Use synonyms
Overall
, visiting a fast Linking Words
food
restaurant once a week or once or twice a month was most common, Use synonyms
while
eating there every day or never Linking Words
were
least common.
In 2003, about 30% of people ate fast Correct subject-verb agreement
was
food
once a week, and a similar proportion Use synonyms
around
30Punctuation problem
, around
%
ate there once or twice a month. By Punctuation problem
%,
2008
the share Punctuation problem
2008,
eating
once a week rose to about 33%, Change preposition
of people eating
whereas
the once-or-twice-a-month group fell slightly.
By Linking Words
2013
the pattern changedPunctuation problem
2013,
:
roughly 33% of people ate fast Punctuation problem
;
food
once or twice a month in the largest group, Use synonyms
while
the once-a-week category dropped to around 27%. The “several times a week” category, which was 20% in 2008, fell to about 15% by 2013. Less frequent categories like “a few times a year” and “never” remained low at roughly 10–15% and 3–5%, respectively. Daily consumption stayed under 5%.Linking Words