The given pie chart illustrates the avarage proportion of money spent by family on restaurant meals across various years, while the line graph compares the total number of eaten meals in both fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants.
Overall, it is immediately apparent that the proportion of family who prefer to spent their budget on restaurants meals increased over years and eventually managed to balance the amount of the home cooking enthusiasts by the end of the period. Meanwhile, the total number of meal consumed in both restaurants rose. Despite having lower popularity at the beginning, fastfood restaurants overtook the sit-down restaurants over the next decades.
In 1970, almost every family prefer to cooked at home, while the remaining 10% chose to spent their budget on restaurants meals. Moreover, the trend of spending money on restaurant foods was rising rapidly over years and finished the period with an equal percentage of activists as home cooking. By contrary, the figure for home cooking decreased dramatically from 90% to only 50% in 2000.
On the other hand, both fastfood restaurants and sit-down restaurants started the same with 20 meals per year. Over the next decades, the meals consumption in fastfood restaurants almost doubled in 1980, climbed moderately to around 30 meals in 1990, and rose slightly to approximately 49 meals by 2000. However, the food consumption in sit-down restaurants increased slightly to about 28 meals in 1980, before surging to around 55 meals over the next decade, and peaking at roughly 85 meals in 2000.