The bar chart illustrates the frequency od eating at fast food restaurants among individuals in the USA in 2003, 2006 and 2013.
Overall, it can be seen that people tend to consume fast food once a week or once/twice a month in all three years. While individuals usually ate in fast food restaurants once a week in 2006, having fast food only once or twice a month was more popular in 2013.
Only very small proportion of people, less than 5%, has stated that they eat from fast food chains every day in all three years. Roughly 17% of individuals in 2003 has confirmed that they consume fast food multiple times a week, while this proportion was standing at 20% in 2006 and approximately 16% in 2013.
Individuals stating they eat fast food once a week reached to approximately 33% in 2006, making this the highest recorded data on the chart. Whereas about 31% of people gave the same answer in 2003 and 28% in 2013. Roughly 32% of individuals consumed fast food once or twice a month in 2013, while 30% did the same in 2003 and 25% in 2006.
Only 13% of people stated that they consumed fast food few times a year in 2003, while in other years, 2006 and 2013, they had the proportion with 15 percent, slighly above 2003. While 5% of the individuals confirmed they do not consume fast food in 2003, people’s answers dropped to about 4% in both 2006 and 2013.