Fitch Updates Recovery Analyses for U.S. Food and Restaurant Companies

Fitch Ratings has published updated recovery analyses for the following U.S. food and restaurant companies:

--Burger King Worldwide, Inc.

--Del Monte Corporation

--DineEquity, Inc.

The interactive recovery analysis worksheets are available at 'www.fitchratings.com' under the following headers:

Sectors >> Corporate Finance >> Corporates >> Research

Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

--'Recovery Ratings and Notching Criteria for Non-financial Corporate Issuers' (Nov. 19, 2013);

--'Corporate Rating Methodology' (Aug. 5, 2013);

--'US Food, Beverage, Tobacco and Restaurants - Recovery Rating Methodology' (March 20, 2008).

Applicable Criteria and Related Research: U.S. Food and Restaurants Recovery Analysis - Third-Quarter 2013

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=728117

Recovery Ratings and Notching Criteria for Non-Financial Corporate Issuers

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=721836

Corporate Rating Methodology: Including Short-Term Ratings and Parent and Subsidiary Linkage

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=715139

US Food, Beverage, Tobacco and Restaurants - Recovery Rating Methodology

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=379286

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