Finger lickin' good in California for Restaurant Brands

Finger lickin' good in California for Restaurant Brands
Brent Melville
Restaurant Brands delivered the goods for the 2020 year, with acquisitions and post-lockdown takeaway sales lifting sales 8.4 percent to $892.4 million across its four trading geographies.The listed fast-food operator owns the NZ franchises for KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr. and Taco Bell, as well as KFC franchises in Australia and California and Taco Bell and Pizza Hut franchises in Hawaii.In an update on December-quarter trading, the firm noted sales for the year were 2.1 percent higher than in 2019 after excluding the four months of trading...

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