date:Feb 12, 2014
ast growing middle class - represents a large market not yet saturated with fast food in a moribund global economy.
So signs last week that these companies might be turning a corner in China, where concerns over avian flu and tainted chicken supplies last year drove away customers, caused some observers to regard their latest quarters positively.
For Yum, the parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, sales at stores open at least a year, also known as same-store sales, fell 4 percent in China.