Yum Global Restaurant Group is the world's largest restaurant chain group, headquartered in Louisville, Ky. Yum owns and operates five of the world's most famous chain brands, including KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, as well as Ed's Bear (A&W) and Long John Silver's (LJS), which it acquired only last year. The chain now has more than 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries around the world. In 2001, the total turnover of the three brands in the global system exceeded 22 billion U.S. dollars, ranking first in the world's restaurant industry, Yum in 2002, Yum another major move, the Group President announced on March 12 in the U.S., signed a contract with the Yorkshire Global Restaurants, Inc. to acquire its A& W (Ed Bear) and Long John Silver's (LJS). John Silver's ( LJS ) two international restaurant brands. KFC is the world's largest fried chicken fast food chain with more than 11,000 restaurants worldwide. Since its entry into China in 1987 with the opening of the first Western-style fast food restaurant in Beijing, KFC has grown into the largest restaurant chain in China with nearly 700 restaurants in more than 150 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Xi'an, Qingdao, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Wuhan, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Harbin, Chengdu, Chongqing and Shenzhen, and employs more than 50,000 local staff. Pizza Hut has become the largest restaurant chain in China. Pizza Hut has grown over the past 40 years to become the world's largest and best pizza restaurant chain, with more than 12,300 locations in more than 90 countries and regions around the world, serving more than 1.7 million pizzas to more than 4 million customers every day. Since its entry into China in 1990, Pizza Hut has become a familiar Western-style restaurant brand to Chinese consumers and has taken root in some of China's major economic and coastal cities from north to south. To date, Pizza Hut has eight limited companies and more than 70 restaurants in China,*** with more than 4,000 employees.