The pie charts compares the average families food budget spent on restaurant meals and home cooking in different years. The graph illustrates the difference of meals eaten in fast-food restaurants and sit down restaurants per family, from 1980 to 2010.
In the first chart, we can easily see that back then 1985, home cooking was more popular than eating at a restaurant. Only 10% of the food budget was for eating outside, and the line graph indicates that sit down restaurants were the choise of the average families, in 1985. In a 10 years of process, budget spent on restaurant meals increased by 5% while fast-food meals began to prefered over sit-down restaurant meals. In early 90’s, fast-food meals and sit-down restaurant meals were at the same level. However, fast-food meals’ popularity had a rapid and major increase after that.
In 2005, there were a huge rise at the money of the average families spent on restaurant meals but home cooking was still chosed over it with 65%. Meanwhile, the gap between fast-food and sit-down restaurant meals got bigger. After 10 years, budget spent on eating at home and eating at a restaurant got equaled. People who eats at a restaurant started to pick fast-food over restaurant meals by nearly a difference of two times.