Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Operating activities
Net income	$ 811.5us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	$ 1,204.8us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
Charges and credits:
Depreciation and amortization	386.1us-gaap_DepreciationAndAmortization	410.4us-gaap_DepreciationAndAmortization
Deferred income taxes	12.5us-gaap_DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	(24.0)us-gaap_DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Share-based compensation	20.0us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensation	25.3us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensation
Other	242.9us-gaap_OtherNoncashIncomeExpense	54.7us-gaap_OtherNoncashIncomeExpense
Changes in working capital items	226.5	236.1
Cash provided by operations	1,699.5	1,907.3
Investing activities
Capital expenditures	(392.6)	(568.8)
Sales and purchases of restaurant businesses and property sales	47.6	78.7
Other	(4.2)	(118.1)
Cash used for investing activities	(349.2)	(608.2)
Financing activities
Short-term borrowings and long-term financing issuances and repayments	(289.8)us-gaap_ProceedsFromRepaymentsOfDebt	(235.1)us-gaap_ProceedsFromRepaymentsOfDebt
Treasury stock purchases	(606.4)	(439.5)
Common stock dividends	(816.3)us-gaap_PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock	(801.7)us-gaap_PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock
Proceeds from stock option exercises	98.6	86.4
Excess tax benefit on share-based compensation	19.4	35.0
Other	1.2	(0.2)
Cash used for financing activities	(1,593.3)	(1,355.1)
Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents	(200.1)	1.1
Cash and equivalents decrease	(443.1)	(54.9)
Cash and equivalents at beginning of period	2,077.9	2,798.7
Cash and equivalents at end of period	$ 1,634.8	$ 2,743.8

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Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.