Question: This fast-food restaurant company was spun off from an American fast food company which was formerly named what?

full_context: Document 1: Yum China: Yum China Holdings Inc. is a Fortune 500 fast-food restaurant company incorporated in the United States and having joint headquarters in Plano, Texas and Shanghai. With $6.8 billion of revenue in 2016 and over 7,500 restaurants, it is the largest restaurant company in China. Spun off from Yum! Brands in 2016, its 420,000 employees represent the 3rd largest worldwide labor force among all U.S. companies.
Document 2: Fast food in China: Western-style fast food in China is a recent phenomenon, dating back only to January 1984 when McDonald's opened its first outlet in Taipei, Taiwan Province in the Republic of China. In October 1987, Kentucky Fried Chicken, still the most popular fast food chain in China, established its first restaurant in the People's Republic of China (mainland area), located in Beijing. KFC was later followed by McDonald's, which remains China's number two foreign fast food option. In addition to American style fast food, China has many local options, including a slew of restaurants that attempt to imitate fast food, particularly KFC.
Document 3: KFC in China: KFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is China's largest restaurant chain. KFC restauruants in China are owned or franchised by Yum China, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains in China and was spun off from Yum! Brands in 2016.
Document 4: Arcos Dorados Holdings: Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. is McDonald’s largest franchisee in the world in terms of systemwide sales and number of restaurants. As of December 31, 2010, it represented 6.7% of McDonald’s franchised restaurants globally. As the largest operator of McDonald's restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean, it has more than 94,000 employees, being one of the region's leading employers of young, first-time job holders. It serves more than 4.3 million customers daily and is the largest quick service restaurant (QSR) chain in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Document 5: Yankuang Group: Yankuang Group Company Limited, restructured from Yanzhou Mining Bureau, was established in 1976. It is the fourth largest coal mining state-owned enterprise in People's Republic of China. In 1999, Yanzhou Mining Bureau was renamed to Yankuang Group Company Limited. It is not only engaged in coal production and sales, coal chemicals, civil engineering, machinery manufacturing, transportation and electricity, but also garment business and trade. Its headquarters is located at Jining, Shandong.
Document 6: KFC in Japan: KFC (the name was originally an initialism for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, United States (US). It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013 . The company is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains.
Document 7: Cargill: Cargill, Inc. is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, but incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2015, number 15 on the Fortune 500, behind McKesson and ahead of AT&T.
Document 8: Restaurant Brands International: Restaurant Brands International is a Canadian multinational fast food company. Formed in 2014 by the $12.5 billion merger between American fast food restaurant chain Burger King and the Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and expanded by the 2017 purchase of Louisiana-based and themed Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the company is the third-largest operator of fast food restaurants in the world. The company is based alongside Tim Hortons in Oakville, Ontario, but both chains retain their existing operations and headquarters in Oakville and Miami respectively. The merger focused primarily on expanding the international reach of the Tim Hortons brand, and providing financial efficiencies for both companies.
Document 9: Louis Hsieh: Louis Tung-jung Hsieh (, born 1965) is a Chinese businessman and lawyer and currently holds the position of Chief Financial Officer at NIO (or NextEV), a global startup based in China which designs and develops premium, smart electric vehicles and autonomous driving vehicles. He also serves as a Senior Advisor and a Board Director of New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), China’s largest private educational services provider. He was the company's president from May 2009 to January 2016. He is also the Independent Director and Audit Chairman for each of JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), China's largest direct sales Internet company, YUM China Holdings (NYSE: YUMC), the restaurant owner in China operating KFC, Pizza Hut, Little Sheep Hot Pot and Taco Bell, and Nord Anglia Education, Inc. (NYSE: NORD), a global schools organization. He is also a board member at United Information Technologies, a Chinese storage solutions company.
Document 10: Xu Jiayin: Xu Jiayin (; born 1958), or Hui Ka Yan in Cantonese, is a Chinese businessman, chairman of Evergrande Group, a Chinese real estate developer. Evergrande's debt to equity ratio peaked at over 170% in 2011. It was over 150% at the end of 2015. It was higher than most Chinese listed real estate companies. Its most recent acquisitions are from Hong Kong-based New World Development. Hui is the largest shareholder of China Evergrande Group. Now it has more than 700 projects in more than 240 cities of China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. 70% of its projects are in the first and second-tier cities. It has established strategic cooperation with more than 800 well-known enterprises worldwide. It implements the strategy of making top-quality products, creates the products with high quality and high cost-effectiveness, establishes the precedents of “selling all the houses with fine decoration” and “no-reason house return” in the industry, so that more than 5 million owners can realize the dream of having a livable home. In 2017, Evergrande Real Estate Group will achieve a sales amount of RMB 450 billion. The Guangzhou-based company has became China's biggest property developer in 2016 based on sales volume and had revenue of 211.4 billion yuan ($31.8 billion) in 2016.
Document 11: China Airlines: China Airlines (CAL) () () is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is headquartered in Taoyuan International Airport and has 12,607 regular employees. China Airlines operates over 1,400 flights weekly to 118 airports in 115 cities (including codeshare) across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. The cargo division operates 91 pure freighter flights weekly. The carrier was, in 2013, the 29th and 10th largest airline in the world in terms of passenger revenue per kilometer (RPK) and freight RPK, respectively. China Airlines has three airline subsidiaries: Mandarin Airlines operates flights to domestic and low-demand regional destinations; China Airlines Cargo, a member of Skyteam Cargo, operates a fleet of freighter aircraft and manages its parent airline's cargo-hold capacity; Tigerair Taiwan is a low-cost carrier established by China Airlines and Singaporean airline group Tigerair Holdings and is wholly owned by China Airlines Group.
Document 12: Pizza Hut: Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney. The company is known for its Italian-American cuisine menu including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. Pizza Hut has over 15,000 locations worldwide as of 2015, and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world's largest restaurant companies.
Document 13: Yum! Brands: Yum! Brands, Inc., or Yum! and formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American fast food company. A Fortune 500 corporation, Yum! operates the brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet worldwide, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Prior to 2011, Yum! owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants.
Document 14: KFC: KFC, until 1991 known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with almost 20,000 locations globally in 123 countries and territories as of December 2015 . The chain is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains.
Document 15: WingStreet: WingStreet is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken. The restaurant chain is owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.
ground_truth: Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.