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 given charts illustrates the proportion of average familys costs on restaurant. The graph demonstrate the comparison between fastfood and sitdown restaurant.

Overall, the percentage of food budget spent on restaurant meals has dramatically increased by years, which started in 1970 with the lowest share, and by 2000 it has the same percentage as home cooking. Moreover, the number of fastfood meals has a significant grow by years, while sitdown restaurant meals number slowly go up.

At first years food costs on restaurant meals had the lowest percentage 10%, and in the 1980 it grew gradually to 15%, while home cooking percentage was between 90-85%. However in 1990 it increased notably enough to 35%. Furthermore, in 2000 it matched with home cooking and shows the same result.

In 1970 the number of fastfood and sitdown restaurants meals started from the same point, but in comparison fastfood meals number increased drastically than restaurants. By 2000 it had almost 90 level, while sitdown restaurants shows only 50.