It operates 8,484 restaurants in over 1,100 cities located in every province and autonomous region in Mainland China.

Brands announced that it intended to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies by spinning off Yum China;[12] it took effect on November 1, 2016.

[13] Yum China has several subsidiary brands, including KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, COFFii & JOY (a coffee bar launched in 2018), Huang Ji Huang (a casual dining franchise), East Dawning (a Jiangnan cuisine fast food franchise) and Little Sheep.

Little Sheep has around 200 restaurants in China, twenty-nine in nine US states, mostly in California, seventeen in Japan, nine in Canada and one in Jakarta, Indonesia.

[14] Number of units as of 2022: The headquarters is in the Yum China Building (Chinese: 百胜中国大厦; pinyin: Bǎishèng Zhōngguó Dàshà) in Xuhui District.