The diagrams above illustrate the percentage of food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals and provide information about the amount of meals eaten in fast food and sit-down restaurants between 1970 and 2000. Overall, there is an upward trend in terms of the amount of spending on the restaurant meals, and, also surged in fast food restaurants. While in sit-down restaurants is slightly rose up.
From the overall perspective, the amount of people who spending budget on the restaurant is continuously increased. On one hand, the fast food and sit-down was steadily went up. In 1970, family dining meals which is the family time spending at home, the restaurant meals was only about 10%. In the following years, the amount of budget spent on restaurants was mildly increasing, with 15%. Next decade, the restaurants meals is dramatically went up more over 20% and continuously increasing at 50%.
Another notable feature is the number of the restaurants that people interested in. the fast food restaurants are one of the most widespread restaurants globally. The number of consumers who eating at fast food restaurants was only 20 meals in 1970 and it was sharply surged in the following year. In the next 30 years, the amount of meals that spent on fast food restaurants reached at 90 meals. Additionally, the sit-down initiative similarly to the fast food. Nonetheless, there was gradually went up in the next years and reached at 50 meals in 2000.
In conclusion, the number of family spent on the restaurants was increased annually. Thereby, the restaurants that prevalent for meal was the fast food restaurants.