Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands, Inc. is a prominent quick-service restaurant company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. It operates a diverse portfolio of well-known brands, including KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, with a total of over 58,000 restaurants across more than 130 countries and territories. As of 2023, the company reported systemwide sales of approximately $64 billion, making it the second-largest restaurant company globally. The vast majority of its restaurants are franchised, with a significant portion managed by franchisees, including Yum China, which pays ongoing royalties to Yum! Brands. Founded in 1997, Yum! Brands aims to foster personal and professional growth among its employees through various development initiatives.

Christopher Turner

CFO, Finance

12 past transactions

Agot

Seed Round in 2022
Agot is a computer vision platform specifically designed for the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry. Its suite of solutions addresses key challenges faced by food service brands by digitizing restaurant activities and translating observations into real-time team interactions and impactful analytics. The platform aims to reduce online order errors, enhance customer ratings, improve pickup time estimates, and deliver actionable operational insights. By focusing on these areas, Agot enables enterprise food service brands to tackle their most significant pain points effectively.

Agot

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Agot is a computer vision platform specifically designed for the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry. Its suite of solutions addresses key challenges faced by food service brands by digitizing restaurant activities and translating observations into real-time team interactions and impactful analytics. The platform aims to reduce online order errors, enhance customer ratings, improve pickup time estimates, and deliver actionable operational insights. By focusing on these areas, Agot enables enterprise food service brands to tackle their most significant pain points effectively.

Dragontail Systems

Acquisition in 2021
Dragontail Systems provides software solution that facilitates optimal management of deliveries for fast food chains. Its end-to-end platform connects kitchen management systems to GPS equipped drivers/vehicles. Using the power of artificial intelligence, Dragontail enables clients to optimize the preparation, delivery, and customer contact processes to ensure higher kitchen productivity, lower delivery costs, faster turnaround, and ultimately happier customers.

Master Delivery

Series A in 2021
Master Delivery is a global Delivery-as-a-Service franchise operating in Western and Eastern Europe, with franchise reach extending to the USA, Brazil, Turkey, and Indonesia. The company provides a digital platform for last-mile delivery and back-end solutions tailored for courier services. Utilizing AI-powered algorithms, Master Delivery enhances courier utilization, improves demand prediction accuracy, and delivers a superior customer experience. With a network of over 100,000 active couriers worldwide, the company serves key players in the Food Tech, E-grocery, and E-commerce sectors. Its comprehensive service portfolio includes Delivery-as-a-Service, Courier-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service solutions, enabling clients to streamline operations and ensure timely deliveries.

TicTuk Technologies

Acquisition in 2021
TicTuk Technologies is a developer of an intelligent online ordering system based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company focuses on conversational commerce, providing technology solutions that assist businesses in streamlining their ordering and marketing processes. TicTuk's platform enables customers to complete their orders in under 60 seconds through various social media and chat channels, enhancing the overall user experience. By integrating these solutions, TicTuk aims to optimize the way businesses interact with their customers, ultimately improving efficiency and engagement in the ordering process.

Kvantum-Consumer Insights and Marketing Performance Analytics Business

Acquisition in 2021
Kvantum is a marketing performance and intelligence company, building technology that fundamentally changes the way brands measure the marketing impact on sales.

Heartstyles

Acquisition in 2020
Heartstyles is a world-class leadership development program. They offer an intuitive and practical method for helping people learn how to become the best versions of themselves, lead authentically and build workplace cultures that unlock the potential of teams and deliver strong results.

The Habit Burger Grill

Acquisition in 2020
The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant chain that focuses on providing a menu of made-to-order items, primarily chargrilled burgers and sandwiches. The restaurant is known for its use of fresh ingredients, including USDA choice tri-tip steak, grilled chicken, and sushi-grade tuna, all cooked over an open flame to enhance flavor. In addition to its signature burgers, The Habit Burger Grill offers a variety of made-to-order salads, sides, shakes, and malts, catering to a diverse customer base seeking quality fast food in a casual dining atmosphere.

Grubhub

Post in 2018
Grubhub is an online platform that allows users to find and order food from local restaurants for delivery or pickup. It provides a wide variety of meal options, including snacks and groceries, while offering tools for restaurant owners to reach more customers.

Little Sheep

Acquisition in 2011
Little Sheep Group Limited is a private company founded in 1999 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China. It specializes in operating hot pot restaurants, condiment processing and meat processing. Little Sheep currently has over 300 chain restaurants in China (including Hong Kong, Macau), Taiwan and also the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea and Canada. In 2007, it was awarded as the most popular Chinese hot pot restaurant by Chinese Restaurant Association. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2008.

Long John Silver's

Acquisition in 2002
Long John Silver's is America's largest quick-service seafood chain with over 1220 units worldwide. It is a subsidiary of Yorkshire Global Restaurants, Inc., a company created in September, 1999 following a merger with A&W Restaurants, Inc. The first Long John Silver's Fish 'n' Chips opened in 1969 in response to growing consumer demand for quick-service seafood. This new approach gained overwhelming acceptance and has led to bold modern restaurants and a menu that meets the taste of today's consumers. Their promise, to provide each guest great tasting, reasonably priced fish, chicken and seafood in a fast and friendly manner on every visit ensures Long John Silver's position in American Culture.

A&W Restaurants

Acquisition in 2002
One hot day in June of 1919 in Lodi, California an entrepreneur named Roy Allen mixed up a batch of creamy root beer and sold the first frosty mug of this delightful beverage for one nickel. Now, more than seventy years later, A&W Root Beer® is the world's number one selling root beer and is still mixed fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W® restaurants. Allen purchased the formula for his root beer from a pharmacist in Arizona. To this day, the unique blend of herbs, spices, barks and berries remains a proprietary secret. With the success of his first root beer stand in Lodi, Allen soon opened a second stand in nearby Sacramento. It was there that what is thought to be the country's first "drive-in" featuring "tray-boys" for curb side service, opened up. In 1922 Allen took on a partner, Frank Wright, an employee from his original Lodi location. The two partners combined their initials - "A" for Allen and "W" for Wright and formally named the beverage, A&W Root Beer®. Three units were opened in Sacramento, then on to other northern and central California locations and to the states of Texas and Utah.
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