The provided charts illustrates information regarding spending of a family on meals from restaurants between 1970 to 2000 and the line graph depicts the data in context of, how many meals eaten in fast food and sit-down restaurants. The data is calibrated in percentage.
Overall, it can be clearly observed that, the spendings on restaurant meals is increasing with the years passing. Additionally, people in 2000, prefer fast food in comparison to sit-down restaurants.
In the terms of percentage of budget spent on restaurants meals is increasing constantly with each decade, only 10 percent in 1970 that grew to 15 percent in 1980. Similarly, it rose significantly in 1990 to 35 percent and exactly half of the total food budget by 2000. Whereas, home cooking was drastically decreased by 90 percent in 1970 to only 50 percent in 2000.
Moreover, in 1980, people generally chose sit-down restaurant over fast food meals with 32 and 24 meals respectively, per year . In contrast with humans in 2000, where the popularity for fast food rocketed to around 90 meals per year and sit-down restaurants to only about 50 meals per year.