The bar chart illustrates how often US citizens ate at fast food restaurants across six frequency categories in 2003, 2006, and 2013.
Overall, it is clear that US citizens preferred to eat at fast food restaurants either once a week or once or twice a month. In contrast, they almost never preferred to eat fast food every day or never.
In 2003, the most common frequency of eating category was once a week, just over . In addition, ‘once or twice a month’ was almost equally popular with ‘once a week’. By 2006, the proportion of people eating it weekly rose around , while other popular choices dropped to . However, this trend reversed in 2013. ‘Once or twice a month’ choice became the most preferred frequency at around and the ‘once a week’ fell about .
Turning to remain categories, the percentage of US citizens eating fast food ‘several times a week’ started at about in 2003, then rose slightly to in 2006 and fell to nearly by 2013. The other choice called ‘a few times a year’ experienced a slight increase from approximately in 2003 to in 2006 and 2013. Finally, the two least popular options “every day” and “never” faced a slight decrease in 2006, compared to 2003, but then remained relatively stable in 2013