Speed of Service (Yum! Brands) Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/speed-of-service-yum-brands The Yum! Brands file: what management declared against what the quarter delivered, timed from the speaker post to the window. Yum! Brands franchises KFC, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill across more than 44,000 restaurants in 151 countries, runs its own restaurant technology platform, Byte by Yum!, and sold Pizza Hut in two transactions in the summer of 2026. Each episode is the audio edition of a written director-grade briefing: commitments scored against outcomes, price moves decomposed before they are narrated, and three questions worth bringing to the table. Built entirely from the public record: filings, calls, decks, and the tape. One quarter at a time. (c) Compound Governance, Inc. d2b861b5-d91d-538d-8454-576dfae0c40d yes en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:14:17 -0700 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:15:05 -0700 Speed of Service (Yum! Brands) episodic Compound Governance, Inc. The Yum! Brands file: what management declared against what the quarter delivered, timed from the speaker post to the window. Yum! Brands franchises KFC, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill across more than 44,000 restaurants in 151 countries, runs its own restaurant technology platform, Byte by Yum!, and sold Pizza Hut in two transactions in the summer of 2026. Each episode is the audio edition of a written director-grade briefing: commitments scored against outcomes, price moves decomposed before they are narrated, and three questions worth bringing to the table. Built entirely from the public record: filings, calls, decks, and the tape. One quarter at a time. The Yum. Chris O'Neill No No Ep 1: The Clean Look 1 1 Ep 1: The Clean Look full 46c04adc-a2c9-42bc-876f-9c210ad9f289 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7d4f7499 Yum! Brands sold Pizza Hut in two pieces this summer, two point seven billion dollars in the aggregate, and its CFO now calls 2027 the first clean look at the portfolio. In between the signing and the closings, Taco Bell walked into a food safety event that took daily sales down about a fifth at the peak. This episode scores the declared model against the July print: the algorithm delivered ex Pizza Hut, the digital mix that changed basis with the sale, the technology platform that now has a private-equity-owned customer on undisclosed terms, the KFC U.S. business the CFO sized at under five percent of profit, and the sentiment measure management offered as evidence of recovery. Three questions for an Audit Committee member, and four tests this episode will be scored on at the November print. Produced from the public record only; both voices are synthetic. Not investment advice.

0:00 Cold open

0:55 The frame and the tape

2:56 Speed round: the ledger

5:52 The argument and management's own qualifications

8:33 The Audit Committee's file

11:26 Three questions and four falsifiers

]]> Yum! Brands sold Pizza Hut in two pieces this summer, two point seven billion dollars in the aggregate, and its CFO now calls 2027 the first clean look at the portfolio. In between the signing and the closings, Taco Bell walked into a food safety event that took daily sales down about a fifth at the peak. This episode scores the declared model against the July print: the algorithm delivered ex Pizza Hut, the digital mix that changed basis with the sale, the technology platform that now has a private-equity-owned customer on undisclosed terms, the KFC U.S. business the CFO sized at under five percent of profit, and the sentiment measure management offered as evidence of recovery. Three questions for an Audit Committee member, and four tests this episode will be scored on at the November print. Produced from the public record only; both voices are synthetic. Not investment advice.

0:00 Cold open

0:55 The frame and the tape

2:56 Speed round: the ledger

5:52 The argument and management's own qualifications

8:33 The Audit Committee's file

11:26 Three questions and four falsifiers

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:14:16 -0700 Compound Governance, Inc. Compound Governance, Inc. 803 Yum! Brands sold Pizza Hut in two pieces this summer, two point seven billion dollars in the aggregate, and its CFO now calls 2027 the first clean look at the portfolio. In between the signing and the closings, Taco Bell walked into a food safety event that took daily sales down about a fifth at the peak. This episode scores the declared model against the July print: the algorithm delivered ex Pizza Hut, the digital mix that changed basis with the sale, the technology platform that now has a private-equity-owned customer on undisclosed terms, the KFC U.S. business the CFO sized at under five percent of profit, and the sentiment measure management offered as evidence of recovery. Three questions for an Audit Committee member, and four tests this episode will be scored on at the November print. Produced from the public record only; both voices are synthetic. Not investment advice.

0:00 Cold open

0:55 The frame and the tape

2:56 Speed round: the ledger

5:52 The argument and management's own qualifications

8:33 The Audit Committee's file

11:26 Three questions and four falsifiers

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