The Company leases certain retail store and supply chain center locations, vehicles, equipment and its corporate headquarters with expiration dates through 2045.

The components of operating and finance lease cost for 2024, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:


	2024		2023		2022
Operating lease cost	$	50,058	$	47,579	$	47,039

Finance lease cost:
Amortization of right-of-use assets		5,644		5,545		5,235
Interest on lease liabilities		4,090		4,340		4,369
Total finance lease cost	$	9,734	$	9,885	$	9,604

Rent expense totaled $91.2 million, $85.6 million and $79.6 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Rent expense includes operating lease cost, as well as expense for non-lease components including common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance for the Company’s real estate leases. Rent expense also includes the variable rate per mile driven and fixed maintenance charges for the Company’s supply chain center tractors and trailers and expense for short-term rentals. Rent expense for certain short-term supply chain center tractor and trailer rentals was $7.5 million, $5.4 million and $7.0 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Variable rent expense and rent expense for other short-term leases were immaterial for 2024, 2023 and 2022.

Supplemental balance sheet information related to the Company’s finance leases as of December 29, 2024 and December 31, 2023 was as follows:


	December 29, 2024			December 31, 2023
Land and buildings	$	79,966		$	83,969
Equipment		4,640			4,284
Finance lease assets		84,606			88,253
Accumulated depreciation and amortization		(28,148	)		(24,159	)
Finance lease assets, net	$	56,458		$	64,094

Current portion of long-term debt	$	4,895		$	4,778
Long-term debt, less current portion		61,163			68,704
Total principal payable on finance leases	$	66,058		$	73,482

As of December 29, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the weighted average remaining lease term and weighted average discount rate for the Company’s operating and finance leases were as follows:


	2024						2023
	Operating			Finance			Operating			Finance
	Leases			Leases			Leases			Leases
Weighted average remaining lease term	7 years			12 years			7 years			13 years
Weighted average discount rate		4.6	%		6.1	%		4.3	%		6.1	%

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases for 2024, 2023 and 2022 was as follows:


	2024		2023		2022
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	50,636	$	46,936	$	45,082
Operating cash flows from finance leases		4,090		4,340		4,369
Financing cash flows from finance leases		4,683		4,184		4,176
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of financing obligation from sale leaseback:
Operating cash flows from sale leaseback		1,293		201		—
Financing cash flows from sale leaseback		89		21		—
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new lease obligations:
Operating leases		53,076		34,313		64,660
Finance leases		1,442		3,842		478

Maturities of lease liabilities as of December 29, 2024 were as follows:


	Operating			Finance
	Leases			Leases
2025	$	49,446		$	8,566
2026		47,740			9,258
2027		40,144			8,172
2028		33,242			7,099
2029		28,657			7,132
Thereafter		62,750			50,514
Total future minimum rental commitments		261,979			90,741
Less, amounts representing interest		(40,076	)		(24,683	)
Total lease liabilities	$	221,903		$	66,058

In the fourth quarter of 2023, a subsidiary of the Company entered into a purchase and sale agreement with a developer to sell one of the Company’s owned supply chain center buildings and the associated land for $14.9 million. Concurrently, a separate subsidiary of the Company entered into a lease agreement with the developer to construct a new supply chain center which includes both the existing building as well as an adjoined new construction on the adjacent properties owned by the developer.

The leaseback of the Company’s building on a standalone basis for the construction period plus the 20-year term using the discount rate implicit in the lease resulted in a finance lease classification, and therefore, the transaction was accounted for as a failed sale leaseback. The Company retained the existing land and buildings on its consolidated balance sheet which are included in property, plant and equipment and the Company continues to depreciate the building as if it owned it. The $14.9 million cash proceeds from the transaction were recorded as a financing obligation which is classified as long-term debt in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and will be amortized into principal and interest expense over the term of the lease agreement. The $119.5 million of future minimum rent payments associated with the new construction on a standalone basis is included in the disclosure for material leases not yet commenced, below.

As of December 29, 2024, in addition to the lease for the new supply chain construction on a standalone basis discussed above, the Company also had additional leases for certain supply chain real estate and certain supply chain vehicles that had not yet commenced. The total estimated future minimum rental commitments for all of these arrangements is $178.0 million. These leases are expected to commence in 2025 with lease terms of up to 20 years. These undiscounted amounts are not included in the table above.

The Company has guaranteed lease payments related to certain franchisees’ lease arrangements. The maximum amount of potential future payments under these guarantees was $12.8 million and $18.5 million as of December 29, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The Company does not believe these arrangements have or are likely to have a material effect on its results of operations, financial condition, revenues or expenses, capital expenditures or liquidity.