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Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
 
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
YUM! Brands, Inc.:
 
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements listed below of YUM! Brands, Inc. and Subsidiaries (YUM) of our report dated February 17, 2010, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of YUM as of December 26, 2009 and December 27, 2008, and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows, and shareholders’ equity (deficit) and comprehensive income (loss) for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended December 26, 2009, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 26, 2009, which report appears in the December 26, 2009 annual report on Form 10-K of YUM. Our report refers to a change in 2009 in YUM’s method of reporting noncontrolling interests due to the adoption of new accounting requirements issued by the FASB.

Description
Registration Statement Number
   
Form S-3 and S-3/A
 
   
Debt Securities
333-160941
Debt Securities
333-133097
YUM! Direct Stock Purchase Program
333-46242
$2,000,000,000 Debt Securities
333-42969
   
Form S-8
 
   
YUM! Restaurants Puerto Rico, Inc. Save-Up Plan
333-85069
Restaurant Deferred Compensation Plan
333-36877, 333-32050
Executive Income Deferral Program
333-36955
YUM! Long-Term Incentive Plan
333-36895, 333-85073, 333-32046
SharePower Stock Option Plan
333-36961
YUM! Brands 401(k) Plan
333-36893, 333-32048, 333-109300
YUM! Brands, Inc. Restaurant General Manager
 
     Stock Option Plan
333-64547
YUM! Brands, Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan
333-32052, 333-109299

 

 
/s/ KPMG LLP
Louisville, Kentucky
February 17, 2010