Income Taxes	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	(5) Income Taxes For the 13 week periods ended June 30, 2020 and June 25, 2019, we recognized an income tax benefit of 31.2% and income tax expense of 13.7%, respectively. For the 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020 and June 25, 2019, we recognized an income tax benefit of 51.4% and income tax expense of 14.3%, respectively. For the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020, we recognized income tax benefit using a discrete tax calculation as we were unable to reliably estimate our full year effective income tax rate. This was primarily due to the inability to estimate the increased impact of the FICA tip and Work opportunity tax credits on our effective tax rate as a result of the significant decrease in pre-tax income. The effective tax rate decreased for the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020, respectively, primarily due to a pre-tax loss in both periods. As a result, the impact of our FICA tip and Work opportunity tax credits had a more significant impact to our effective tax rate. In addition, the impact of these credits was the primary driver of the difference between our statutory and effective tax rates in both periods. Additionally, these credits exceeded our federal tax liability for both the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020 but we expect to utilize these credits in the current or future years or by carrying back to our 2019 tax year.

Income Taxes

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

(5) Income Taxes

For the 13 week periods ended June 30, 2020 and June 25, 2019, we recognized an income tax benefit of 31.2% and income tax expense of 13.7%, respectively. For the 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020 and June 25, 2019, we recognized an income tax benefit of 51.4% and income tax expense of 14.3%, respectively. For the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020, we recognized income tax benefit using a discrete tax calculation as we were unable to reliably estimate our full year effective income tax rate. This was primarily due to the inability to estimate the increased impact of the FICA tip and Work opportunity tax credits on our effective tax rate as a result of the significant decrease in pre-tax income.

The effective tax rate decreased for the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020, respectively, primarily due to a pre-tax loss in both periods. As a result, the impact of our FICA tip and Work opportunity tax credits had a more significant impact to our effective tax rate. In addition, the impact of these credits was the primary driver of the difference between our statutory and effective tax rates in both periods. Additionally, these credits exceeded our federal tax liability for both the 13 and 26 week periods ended June 30, 2020 but we expect to utilize these credits in the current or future years or by carrying back to our 2019 tax year.