The pie charts indicate the proportion of food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The line graph give the number increase in meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants. Seen together, there appears to be a relationship between financial budget paying for food and the number of restaurants’ meals sold.
Overall, the figures show that the number of meals eaten in restaurants may be influenced by the food buget available to restaurant meals and home cooking.
In 1970, the food budget spend on restaurant meals accounted for minimally a ten of total value whereas the rest proportion was spent on home cooking. The sale performance of restaurant meals was also at the low of 20 meals a year. On the following year, the same increase patterns was experience in both figures, while the proportion of food budget for restaurant’ meals make up to 15%, the quantity of food sold rose to comparatively 30 meals per year as well.
In 1990, 35% of total food budget’s proportion was spent on restaurants meals. Fast food and sit-down restaurant meals showed a similar pattern with sales of both meals increasing significantly to around 55 and 45 respectively. The proportion of food restaurant meals in the year 2000 took up a half of the whole budget which lead to the highest sale performance of Fast food and sit-down restaurant meals, peaking at approximately 80 and 45 meals.