You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The charts below show the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants.
You should write at least 150 words.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Sample Answer 1
The illustration demonstrates how people’s tendency to have outside meals augmented between 1970 and 2000 and the ratio of food budget they spent on homemade food and restaurant meals. Generally speaking, people ate more outside meals over time and their spending on that increased noticeably.
As can be seen, people spent one-tenth of their food budget on dining outside in 1970 and had around 40 meals outside the home, of which 20 meals were taken from fast food shops. Next decade, their expenditure ratio on homemade food declined, and they spent 5% more enjoying meals from a restaurant. In 1980, they ate approximately 60 meals at a restaurant, of which roughly 35 were fast food. Over time, their spending ratio on restaurant meals soared, and in 2000, they had around 90 fast food meals and 50 sit-down restaurant meals. It is worth noticing that this tendency swelled their food budget for cafeteria meals as they spend half of their food funds to enjoy outside meals.
Sample Answer 2
Given are two kinds of figures concerning how much the average family spent on food in four years from 1970 to 2000. The first chart provides information about the spent on restaurant meals (in percentage), while the second one illustrates how many fast food meals and sit-down restaurant meals were in each year.
The most significant point in the pie charts is that between 1970 and 2000 there was considerable growth from one-fifth in the first year of the period to exactly half in 2000. That is a rise of forty percent in thirty years.
The most striking feature to comment on in the line chart is that even though both fast food meals and sit-down meals started at the same point, a mere twenty meals had two different endings. In 1980, the number of sit-down suppers rose to approximately thirty-five, while the number of quickly served meals experienced a minor increase. However, in twenty years after that, the proportion quickly reached a peak at relatively ninety, considerably forty meals more than that of sit-down restaurant meals.
It is interesting to note that over thirty years, having meals in a restaurant, whether fast food or sit-down, has become very popular.
(Approximately 211 words | Written by – Quynh Tran )
Sample Answer 3
The illustration compares the amounts spent on restaurant and home-cooking foods in four years and gives data on the number of meals eaten by two other restaurant types.
As is presented in the pie chart, initially in 1970, 90% of the total food budget was spent on home-made foods while only 10% was spent on restaurant foods. The amount spent on restaurant meals increased to 15% in 1980 and reached 35% in 1990. Finally, in 200, an average family spent half of the total budget on restaurant meals, showing a rapid increase in people’s habit of having meals in restaurants.
In the line graph, we can observe that in 1970, fast food and sit-down restaurant meals were taken 20 thousand times each and these numbers kept increasing over time. Finally, in 2000, more than 90 thousand fast food meals were eaten, while sit-down restaurant meals were eaten 50 thousand times a year. This indicates the changes in people’s habits of eating out and the popularity of restaurant foods over homemade foods.
In summary, over 30 years ago, people adopted the habit of eating out at restaurants, and sit-down restaurants gained more popularity than fast food shops.
(Approximately 209 words)
Sample Answer 4
The bar graph illustrates the proportion of the money spent by an average family on having meals in a restaurant in four selected years. In contrast, the line graph depicts how many meals they have eaten in two types of restaurants. Overall, it is clear that there was an increasing trend in the money spent on having meals in restaurants throughout the years, and fast food restaurant was favored by people more than a restaurant.
First, the proportion of money spent on eating in restaurants increased from 1970 to 2000. In 1970, only 10% of their food budget was spent on eating in restaurants whereas, in 2000, it rose to 50%. Turning to the preference of people for choosing restaurants, there was an equal number of people having meals in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants (about 20 meals per year) in 1970. An overall rising pattern can be seen for both restaurants.
However, the number of fast food restaurants went up slowly from 1970 to 1980 before it continued to rise steadily and reached its peak in 2000 at just under 90 meals per year, almost double that of sit-down restaurants in the same year. Interestingly, sit-down restaurants showed a rapid increase in the number of meals per year, reaching a higher point than fast food restaurants from 1970 to 1980 but slowed down after 1980.
( Written by – Alfred Lee )
Sample Answer 5
The pie chart illustrates the percentage of food budget spent by an average family on restaurant meals and at home in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000, while the graph compares the meals eaten in fast food shops and sit-down restaurants in those years.
It can be seen that the proportion of the food budget spent on restaurant meals increased over the period. In 1970, just 10% of the total food budget was spent on restaurant meals. This amount rose by 5% in 1980. The percentage continued to increase to 35% in 1990, and in 2000, the proportion of the food budget spent on restaurants and home cooking was equal (50:50).
The graph shows that the number of meals eaten in fast and sit-down restaurants increased during the period. In 1970, the number of meals eaten in those two kinds of restaurants was the same (20 meals/year). In 1980, the number of meals eaten in sit-down restaurants was higher than that in fast-food restaurants. However, in the following period, the number of fast food meals boomed to approximately 55 meals/year and 90 meals/year in 1990 and 2000 respectively while the number of food eaten in sit-down restaurants just increased moderately, from 35 meals/year in 1980 to 45 meals/year in 1990 and 50 meals/year in 2000. It is evident from the graph that fast food gained more popularity over the period and the number of meals eaten outside increased significantly.
( Written by – Titi )
Sample Answer 6
The pie charts outline the ratio of food budget people spent on preparing meals at home and on restaurant meals, and the line graph delineates what type of outside food people preferred between 1970 and 2000. Overall, people’s spending on restaurant meals increased significantly over time, and fast food became more popular.
As the illustration shows, people spent 10% of their food budget to have outside meals in 1970, and this spending ratio enlarged each decade. In 1990, they spent more than one-third of their meal budget eating at restaurants, and finally, in 2000, people spent half of their food budget eating outside.
The line graph shows that people ate 20 fast food meals in 1970 and the same number of sitdown eatery meals this year. After a decade, the number of sit-down dining occurrences went slightly higher than the number of fast food meals they had. However, the popularity of fast food remarkably increased, and people ate as high as 90 meals in fast food shops in 2000 when they had around 50 sitdown meals this year.