The bar graph illustrates the pattern of visiting fast food restaurant of the US people during the year of 2003, 2006 and 2013. The data is presented in percentage and divided into 6 patterns.
Overall, fewer people decided to have their meals on fast food restaurant in 2013 than it was ten years ago, with the exception of those who visited once or twice a month and a few times a year.
In 2003 more than 3% of the American had their meals every day at fast food restaurant, and it witnessed a reduction to about 2.5% by 2003 and 2006. For people who ate several times a week or once a week, they show similar pattern in their preference, with regard to the former, which experienced a rise in 2006 from approximately 17% to 20% before a drop to about 16% by 2013, and the latter from nearly 31% to more than 32% then around 27%.
For those who visited once or twice a month, the figure reduced from 30% to 25% and grew to about 32% in the given years whereas people who visited a few times a year, the proportion increased from about 12% in 2003 and plateaued at 15% during 2006 and 2013. Furthermore, there was a reduction in population of American who never visited the fast food restaurant from 5% to 3% in the given spans.