Segment Reporting and Geographical Information - Additional Information (Details)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018 Segment Brand	Dec. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Number of brands \| Brand	3
Tim Hortons, Burger King, and Popeyes brand
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Number of operating segments	3
Number of reportable segments	3
United States
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Percentage of long lived assets by segment		10.00%
Canada
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Percentage of long lived assets by segment	10.00%	10.00%

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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