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Items Affecting Comparability of Net Income and Cash Flows (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Schedule of Purchase Price Allocation [Table Text Block] | We recorded the following assets acquired and liabilities assumed upon acquisition of Little Sheep as a result of our purchase price allocation:
| Current assets, including cash of $44 | $ | 109 |
| Property, plant and equipment |  | 64 |
| Goodwill |  | 376 |
| Intangible assets, including indefinite-lived trademark of $404 |  | 421 |
| Other assets |  | 35 |
| Total assets acquired |  | 1,005 |
| Deferred taxes |  | 105 |
| Other liabilities |  | 60 |
| Total liabilities assumed |  | 165 |
| Redeemable noncontrolling interest |  | 59 |
| Other noncontrolling interests |  | 16 |
| Net assets acquired | $ | 765 |
Activity Related To Reserves For Remaining Lease Obligations [Text Block] | The following table summarizes the 2012 and 2011 activity related to reserves for remaining lease obligations for closed stores.
|  | Beginning Balance |  | Amounts Used |  | New Decisions |  | Estimate/Decision Changes |  | CTA/ Other |  | Ending Balance
2012 Activity |  | $ | 34 |  |  | (14 | ) |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 1 |  |  | $ | 27 |
2011 Activity |  | $ | 28 |  |  | (12 | ) |  | 17 |  |  | 2 |  |  | (1 | ) |  | $ | 34 |
Refranchising (gain) loss |
Facility Actions | The Refranchising (gain) loss by reportable segment is presented below. We do not allocate such gains and losses to our segments for performance reporting purposes.
|  | Refranchising (gain) loss |  |  |  |  |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  |  |  |  |
China |  | $ | (17 | ) |  | $ | (14 | ) |  | $ | (8 | ) |  |  |  |  |
YRI (a)(b)(c) |  | 61 |  |  | 69 |  |  | 53 |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. (d) |  | (122 | ) |  | 17 |  |  | 18 |  |  |  |  |  |
India |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  |  |  |  |
Worldwide |  | $ | (78 | ) |  | $ | 72 |  |  | $ | 63 |  |  |  |  |  |
(a) | During the fourth quarter of 2012, we refranchised our remaining 331 Company-owned Pizza Hut dine-in restaurants in the United Kingdom. The newly signed franchise agreement for these stores allows the franchisee to pay continuing franchise fees in the initial years of the agreement at a reduced rate. We agreed to allow the franchisee to pay these reduced fees in part as consideration for their assumption of lease liabilities related to underperforming stores that we anticipate they will close that were part of the refranchising. We recognize the estimated value of terms in franchise agreements entered into concurrently with a refranchising transaction that are not consistent with market terms as part of the upfront refranchising gain (loss). Accordingly, upon the closing of this refranchising we recognized a loss of $53 million representing the estimated value of these reduced continuing fees. The associated deferred credit is recorded within Other liabilities and deferred credits in our Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 29, 2012 and will be amortized into YRI's Franchise and license fees and income over the next 4 years, including $16 million in 2013. This upfront loss largely contributed to a $70 million Refranchising loss we recognized during 2012 as a result of this refranchising. Also included in that loss was the write-off of $14 million in goodwill allocated to the Pizza Hut UK reporting unit. The remaining carrying value of goodwill allocated to our Pizza Hut UK business of $87 million, after the aforementioned write-off, was determined not to be impaired as the fair value of the Pizza Hut UK reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount. An income tax benefit of $9 million was recorded in 2012 as a result of this $70 million refranchising loss.
During 2011, we recorded a $76 million charge in Refranchising gain (loss) as a result of our decision to refranchise or close all of our remaining company-owned Pizza Hut UK dine-in restaurants, primarily to write down these restaurants' long-lived assets to their then estimated fair value. Impairment charges of Pizza Hut UK long-lived assets incurred as a result of this decision, including the charge mentioned in the previous sentence, reduced depreciation expense versus what would have otherwise been recorded by $13 million and $3 million for the years ended December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.
(b) | In the year ended December 25, 2010 we recorded a $52 million loss on the refranchising of our Mexico equity market as we sold all of our Company-owned restaurants, comprised of 222 KFCs and 123 Pizza Huts, to an existing Latin American franchise partner. The buyer is serving as the master franchisee for Mexico which had 102 KFC and 53 Pizza Hut franchise restaurants at the time of the transaction. The write-off of goodwill included in this loss was minimal as our Mexico reporting unit included an insignificant amount of goodwill. This loss did not result in any related income tax benefit.
(c) | During the year ended December 25, 2010 we refranchised all of our remaining company restaurants in Taiwan, which consisted of 124 KFCs. We included in our December 25, 2010 financial statements a write-off of $7 million of goodwill in determining the loss on refranchising of Taiwan. This loss did not result in a related income tax benefit. The remaining carrying value of goodwill related to our Taiwan business of $30 million, after the aforementioned write-off, was determined not to be impaired as the fair value of the Taiwan reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount.
(d) | U.S. Refranchising (gain) loss in the year ended December 29, 2012 is primarily due to gains on sales of Taco Bells. U.S. Refranchising (gain) loss in the years ended December 31, 2011 and December 25, 2010 is primarily due to losses on sales of and offers to refranchise KFCs in the U.S. The non-cash impairment charges that were recorded related to our offers to refranchise these company-operated KFC restaurants in the U.S. decreased depreciation expense versus what would have otherwise been recorded by $3 million, $10 million and $9 million in the years ended December 29, 2012, December 31, 2011 and December 25, 2010, respectively. These depreciation reductions were not allocated to the U.S. segment resulting in depreciation expense in the U.S. segment results continuing to be recorded at the rate at which it was prior to the impairment charges being recorded for these restaurants.
See Note 2 for our policy for writing off goodwill in a refranchising transaction.
Closures and impairment (income) expenses |
Facility Actions | Store closure (income) costs and Store impairment charges by reportable segment are presented below. These tables exclude $80 million of net losses recorded in 2011 related to the LJS and A&W divestitures. This amount was not allocated to any segment for performance reporting purposes:
|  | 2012
|  | China |  | YRI |  | U.S. |  | India |  | Worldwide
Store closure (income) costs(a) |  | $ | (4 | ) |  | $ | 12 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 8 |
Store impairment charges |  | 13 |  |  | 7 |  |  | 9 |  |  | — |  |  | 29 |
Closure and impairment (income) expenses |  | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 19 |  |  | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 37 |
|  | 2011
|  | China |  | YRI |  | U.S. |  | India |  | Worldwide
Store closure (income) costs(a) |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | 4 |  |  | $ | 4 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 7 |
Store impairment charges |  | 13 |  |  | 18 |  |  | 17 |  |  | — |  |  | 48 |
Closure and impairment (income) expenses |  | $ | 12 |  |  | $ | 22 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 55 |
|  | 2010
|  | China |  | YRI |  | U.S. |  | India |  | Worldwide
Store closure (income) costs(a) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 3 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 5 |
Store impairment charges |  | 16 |  |  | 12 |  |  | 14 |  |  | — |  |  | 42 |
Closure and impairment (income) expenses |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 14 |  |  | $ | 17 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 47 |
(a) | Store closure (income) costs include the net gain or loss on sales of real estate on which we formerly operated a Company restaurant that was closed, lease reserves established when we cease using a property under an operating lease and subsequent adjustments to those reserves and other facility-related expenses from previously closed stores.

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