Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Yum! Brands is one of the world's largest fast-food restaurant companies. It operates more than 50,000 restaurants across the globe. And despite its lack of visibility, if you drive through just about any American town, you'll quickly see clear evidence of its omnipresent existence.

The brand's story isn't one of small-town success gone national, though. Yum! Brands was set up to succeed from the beginning, and it's managed to do just that. But not without leaving the occasional nasty scandal in its wake…

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