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<div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt">The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the 13-week and 39-week periods ended September 25, 2010 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 25, 2010.</font></div>
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<div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt">The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 26, 2009 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 26, 2009.</font></div>
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<div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt">The Company's fiscal year is based on a 52-53 week period ending on the last Saturday of the calendar year. Therefore the financial results of certain fiscal years, and the associated 14-week quarters, will not be exactly comparable to the prior and subsequent 52-week fiscal years and the associated quarters having only 13-weeks. The quarters and year-to-date period ended September 25, 2010 and September 26, 2009 both contain operating results for 13-weeks and 39-weeks for both year-to-date periods, respectively.</font></div> </div>1.
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