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.
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 that operates across 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, offering back-end solutions for courier-as-a-service operators. Utilizing AI-powered algorithms, Master Delivery enhances courier utilization, improves demand prediction, and elevates the overall delivery experience. With a network of over 100,000 active couriers worldwide, the company serves market leaders in sectors such as Food Tech, e-grocery, and e-commerce express delivery. Its service portfolio includes Delivery-as-a-Service, Courier-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service solutions, enabling clients to increase order execution speed 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 a burger-centric menu, emphasizing made-to-order items chargrilled over an open flame. The company takes pride in using high-quality ingredients, including USDA choice tri-tip steak, grilled chicken, and sushi-grade tuna, which are prepared fresh for each order. In addition to its signature char-grilled burgers, The Habit offers a variety of sandwiches, fresh salads, and a selection of sides, shakes, and malts, all designed to provide a satisfying dining experience. The emphasis on quality ingredients and preparation sets The Habit apart in the competitive fast casual dining sector.
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 Group
Acquisition in 2011
Little Sheep Group Limited, founded in 1999 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, is a private company specializing in the operation of hot pot restaurants, as well as condiment and meat processing. The company has established over 300 chain restaurants across various regions, including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Canada. Little Sheep is recognized for its innovative dining experience and was awarded the title of the most popular Chinese hot pot restaurant by the Chinese Restaurant Association in 2007. In addition to its restaurant operations, the company also offers catering services and sells related food products.
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.
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.
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