Complete the acquisition of 128 Taco Bell restaurants
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 4 Nov 2025
- Due
- 31 Dec 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“We expect to complete the acquisition of 128 Taco Bell restaurants across the Southeast U.S. in the fourth quarter.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Yum! Brands confirmed in multiple filings that it completed the acquisition of 128 Taco Bell restaurants in the Southeast U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2025.
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A Yum! Brands 10-K filed 2026-02-20
“During the fourth quarter of 2025, we completed the acquisition of 128 Taco Bell restaurants across the Southeast U.S. from a franchisee.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.6% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (19 Feb 2026 to 24 Feb 2026). What this measures
Checked 17 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- 128 Taco Bell restaurants
- Target
- 128 restaurants
- Where
- Southeast U.S.
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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