The chart gives information about food budget the average family spent in restaurant meals and home cooking between 1970 and 2000 in unknown country. We can see that every 10 years in the timeline, the percentage of family’s food budget allocating to purchase meals in restaurants kept increasing from 10% in 1970 to 50% in 2000 as it was faster and more convenient than cooking at home.
The graph illustrates the total number of meals had in fast-food restaurants and sit-down restaurants in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. Starting from same number, 20 meals in 1970, the amount of portions that people ate in fast-food restaurant increased slightly in 1980, before skyrocketing to under 90 meals in 2000. Meanwhile, sit-down restaurants maintained a steady rising over the period to approximately 49 meals in 2000.
Overall, this highlight how people were more interested to buy meals outside home or fast-food over the period in order to save time.