Band 5+: The chart below show the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart and line graph shown in the picture, depict the data of change in food budget spent by the average family on restaurant meals from 1970 to 2000. Overall, it seems that amount spend by an average family on restaurant meals is on rising trend and preferring fast food more than sit down restaurant meals.

In 1970, only 10% of food budget was spent on restaurants while 90% was spent on home cooking. But this trend varied significantly in three decades, and the data of year 2000, shows that the common family is now utilizing around equal amount of food expenditure on both home cooking and the food on restaurant meals.

Similarly, the line graph also compares the data between number of fast food meals and sit down restaurant meals per year from 1970 to 2000. Initially, in 1970, there were only 20 meals per year on average both as fast food and sit down restaurant but eventully, people preffers more fast food and buy 85 meals per year in 2000 than just 50 meals per year on sit down restaurants.