Lease costs included on the Consolidated Statements of Operations consisted of the following (in thousands):


	Fiscal Year
	2022		2021		2020
Lease cost	$	60,163	$	57,807	$	55,996
Variable lease cost		3,445		1,739		142
Total lease costs	$	63,608	$	59,546	$	56,138

Weighted-average lease term and discount rate was as follows:


	January 3, 2023	December 28, 2021
Weighted-average remaining lease term	11.5 Years	12.0 Years
Weighted-average discount rate	5.7	5.6

Operating lease obligation maturities as of January 3, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):


2023	$	66,032
2024		62,606
2025		58,109
2026		56,500
2027		53,656
Thereafter		300,376
Total lease payments		597,279
Less: imputed interest		(124,566	)
Present value of operating lease obligations	$	472,713

In response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, from April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020, we suspended the payment of rent and did not make lease payments under our existing lease agreements for the majority of our leases. During the suspension of payments, we continued to recognize expenses and liabilities for lease obligations and corresponding lease assets on the balance sheet in accordance with ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842).

We negotiated lease payment deferrals and rent concessions for the majority of our leases. The negotiated concessions primarily were in the form of rent deferrals (full or partial) or abatements. In accordance with the relief issued in April 2020 by the FASB titled ASC Topic 842 and ASC Topic 840, Accounting for Lease Concessions Related to the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we did not recognize contractual rent concessions as a lease contract modification when the total payments required by the modified contract were substantially the same or less than the total payments required by the original contract. Lease concessions that provided a substantial increase in the rights of the lessor or our obligations under the lease were accounted for as lease modifications in accordance with ASC Topic 842.