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The fast-food segment of the restaurant industry, built on standardised menus, high throughput and speed of service, and largely operated through franchisees.
Yum Brands says voice AI at more than 890 Taco Bell drive-thrus is raising crew retention in an industry with a 3.5% monthly quit rate. That rate is nearly twice the 1.9% for all nonfarm jobs, and the support for Yum's claim comes from Yum and its software vendor.
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KFC U.S. will replace PepsiCo with Coca-Cola as its drink supplier from January 2027, ending a tie that began in 1986. The change covers 3,718 US locations by Reuters' count, one Yum brand in one market.
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Taco Bell named seven new Live Mas Cafe sites in Indiana, Southern California and Las Vegas, joining 39 that it says have sold about 1.3 million drinks. The figures cover volume only, and alcohol is listed only for the Las Vegas flagship.
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Mixue's answer, going the other way, is three US stores plus two dozen announcements. The American build-out runs through Chinese partners who find the sites and share the risk, and a Chinese firm now owns 60% of Starbucks China.
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McDonald's is near a multi-year low and one Seeking Alpha analyst says the valuation is still full. He owns none of it, and his preferred entry sits four turns of forward earnings below where the stock trades.
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Robert Pyles says his seven Milwaukee restaurants are growing double digits while the chain's US sales slow, and the levers he names run on capital he has been accumulating since 1998 rather than on menu strategy.
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