Employees own 100% of RBI and EARN stock in the company each year that goes towards retirement. Most don’t understand the philosophy, but it’s really simple. The majority of companies are owned by a select few people or they are large publicly traded companies with many shareholders. For those companies, profits go to a select few owners and/or shareholders of the company. At RBI, those owners are all 250 of our employees and we distribute our year-end-profits amongst all shareholders (better known as our employees).