YUM Some Potential Acquisition Candidates for Yum Brands

By Mark Kalinowski Published on June 10, 2019 at 12:00 AM

In April, Restaurant Business reported that “Yum [Brands], the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, will ‘absolutely’ acquire another brand one day, [CEO Greg] Creed said. ‘In the future, other brands will want to become part of the Yum family,’ he said. ‘We’ll do it because these brands want to join us more than I want to pay some huge multiple.’”

Updating our Q2E19 Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Same-Store Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 16, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we increase our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Other Index for Q2E by +30 basis points, to +2.6%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during April 2019 and the beginning of May 2019.

Updating our Q2E19 Kalinowski Quick-Service Pizza Same-Store Sales Index

By Mark Kalinowski Published on May 14, 2019 at 12:00 AM

With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Pizza Index for Q2E by +40 basis points, to +1.7%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during April 2019 and the beginning of May 2019.