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Exhibit 23.1

 

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 reports dated February 28, 2007, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of YUM as of December 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows and shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 30, 2006, and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 30, 2006 and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 30, 2006, which reports appear in the December 30, 2006 annual report on Form 10-K of YUM. Our report refers to changes in the method of quantifying errors and accounting for defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans in 2006, and a change in method of accounting for share-based payments in 2005.

 

Description

Registration Statement Number

 

 

 

Forms S-3 and S-3/A

 

 

YUM! Direct Stock Purchase Program

 

333-46242

$2,000,000,000 Debt Securities

 

333-42969

$3,000,000,000 Debt Securities

 

333-133097

 

 

 

Form S-8s

 

 

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 28, 2007