The first outlet of the Mexican food chain would open in Shanghai, Chief Executive Greg Creed said at a consumer and retail conference in New York on Tuesday.

Yum Brands, which is in the midst of separating its China business into an independent, publicly-traded company this year, has about 7,000 KFC and Pizza Hut chains in the Asian country.

(Reporting by Siddharth Cavale in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)