The pie charts depicts the amount of general family budget spent on restaurant meals,followed by a line graph shows the ratio of meals eaten in fast food chains and casual dining between four decades from 1970 to 2000.
The percentages of money that average family allocated towards meals outside the households consistently grow in each decades, starting from 10% in 1970 to 50% by 2000. On the contrary, home cooking meals are popular in 1970 hence the large percentage but experience a consistent decrease, which leads to the same total of ratio in 2000.
Following the growth number of spending on restaurants, the graph also illustrates an increasing total of foods eaten in both fast food and sit-down restaurants. Both dining places starting with similar ratio in 1970 but then the number of fast food meals overtook and reached it’s peak with approximately 85 in 2000 while under 50 of casual dining foods consumed in the same year.