Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

8. Leases

We determine if a contract contains a lease at inception. Our material operating leases consist of restaurant locations and office space. Our leases generally have remaining terms of 1-20 years and most include options to extend the leases for additional 5-year periods. Generally, the lease term is the minimum of the noncancelable period of the lease or the lease term inclusive of reasonably certain renewal periods up to a term of 20 years.

The components of lease cost were as follows:



		Three months ended		Three months ended
		March 31,		March 31,
	Classification	2020		2019
Operating lease cost	Occupancy, Other operating costs, General and administrative expenses and Pre-opening costs	$	81,096	$	76,805
Short-term lease cost	Other operating costs		36		737
Variable lease cost	Occupancy		9,156		9,104
Sublease income	General and administrative expenses		(837)		(766)
Total lease cost		$	89,451	$	85,880

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information related to leases were as follows:



	Three months ended		Three months ended
	March 31,		March 31,
	2020		2019
Cash paid for operating lease liabilities	$	77,889	$	71,832
Operating lease assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities⁽¹⁾	$	136,966	$	2,401,239
Derecognition of operating lease assets due to terminations or impairment	$	2,007	$	10,050

(1) Amounts for the three months ended March 31, 2019 include the transition adjustment for the adoption of Topic 842 discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.