Debt Obligations

6 Months Ended

Jun. 29, 2012

Debt Obligations [Abstract]

Debt Obligations

Note 10 – Debt Obligations

Debt obligations as of June 29, 2012 and December 30, 2011 consisted of the following:

	June 29, 2012			December 30, 2011
Revolving credit facility	$	22,605		$	17,382
Term loan		39,000			28,000
New Markets Tax Credit loan		11,000			—
Capital lease		261			315
Total debt obligations		72,866			45,697
Less: current installments		(4,612	)		(6,107	)
Total debt obligations excluding current installments	$	68,254		$	39,590

On April 25, 2012, Dairyland USA Corporation, The Chefs’ Warehouse Mid-Atlantic, LLC, Bel Canto Foods, LLC, The Chefs’ Warehouse West Coast, LLC, The Chefs’ Warehouse of Florida, LLC, (each a “Borrower” and collectively, the “Borrowers”), the Company and Chefs’ Warehouse, Parent, LLC (together with the Company, the “Guarantors”) entered into a senior secured credit facility (the “New Credit Agreement”) with the lenders from time to time party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“Chase”), as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.

The New Credit Agreement provides for a senior secured term loan facility (the “New Term Loan Facility”) in the aggregate amount of up to $40,000 (the loans thereunder, the “New Term Loans”) and a senior secured revolving loan facility (the “New Revolving Credit Facility” and, together with the New Term Loan Facility, the “New Credit Facilities”) of up to an aggregate amount of $100,000 (the loans thereunder, the “New Revolving Credit Loans”). The New Credit Agreement also provides that the Borrowers may, at their option, increase the aggregate amount of either borrowings under the New Revolving Credit Facility or the New Term Loan Facility in an aggregate amount up to $40,000 (but in not less than $10,000 increments) without the consent of any lenders not participating in such increase, subject to certain customary conditions and lenders committing to provide the increase in funding. The final maturity of the New Term Loans and New Revolving Credit Facility is April 25, 2017. Subject to adjustment for prepayments, the Company is required to make quarterly principal payments on the New Term Loans on June 30, September 30, December 31 and March 31, with the first four quarterly payments equal to $1,000 per quarter, and the last sixteen quarterly payments equal to $1,500 per quarter, with the remaining balance due upon maturity.

The New Credit Facilities are secured by substantially all the assets of the Borrowers and the Guarantors with the exception of equity interests in and assets of DHP. Borrowings under the New Credit Facilities will bear interest at the Company’s option of either (i) the alternate base rate (representing the greatest of (1) Chase’s prime rate, (2) the federal funds effective rate for overnight borrowings plus 1/2 of 1% and (3) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for one month plus 2.50%) plus in each case the applicable margin of 0.50% for New Revolving Credit Loans or New Term Loans or (ii), in the case of Eurodollar Borrowings (as defined in the New Credit Agreement), the Adjusted LIBO Rate plus the applicable margin of 3.0% for New Revolving Credit Loans or New Term Loans. The LIBO Rate is the rate for eurodollar deposits for a period equal to one, two, three, six or nine months (as selected by the Borrowers) appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any successor or substitute page of such service), at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time, two business days prior to the commencement of the applicable interest period.

The New Credit Agreement also includes financial covenants that require (i) the ratio of the Company’s consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the New Credit Agreement) minus the unfinanced portion of capital expenditures to the Company’s consolidated Fixed Charges (as defined in the New Credit Agreement) on a trailing twelve month basis as of the end of each of the Company’s fiscal quarters not be less than 1.25 to 1.00 and (ii) the ratio of the Company’s consolidated Total Indebtedness (as defined in the New Credit Agreement) to the Company’s consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the New Credit Agreement) for the then trailing twelve months be greater than (A) 3.50 to 1.00 for any fiscal quarter ending in the Company’s 2012 and 2013 fiscal years, (B) 3.25 to 1.00 for any fiscal quarter ending in the Company’s 2014 and 2015 fiscal years and (C) 3.00 to 1.00 for any fiscal quarter ending thereafter.

Upon entering into the New Credit Agreement, the Company wrote off deferred financing fees of approximately $237 related to its previous credit facility. As this transaction was considered a modification of existing debt, deferred financing fees from our previous credit facility of approximately $773 will be amortized over the life of the New Credit Agreement.

On April 26, 2012 (the “Loan Commencement Date”), DHP entered into a financing arrangement under the New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) program under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), pursuant to which CLII provided to DHP the NMTC Loan to help fund DHP’s expansion and build-out of its new Bronx, NY facility, which construction is required under the Lease Agreement. The NMTC Loan is evidenced by a Mortgage Note, dated as of April 26, 2012 (the “Mortgage Note”), between DHP, as maker, and CLII, as payee. Under the Mortgage Note DHP is obligated to pay CLII (i) monthly interest payments on the principal balance then outstanding and (ii) the entire unpaid principal balance then due and owing on April 26, 2017. Interest accrues under the Mortgage Note at 1.00% per annum for as long as DHP is not in default thereunder, which interest shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days.

As of June 29, 2012, the Borrowers and Guarantors were in compliance with all debt covenants under the New Credit Agreement and the NMTC Loan and the Company had reserved $120 of the New Revolving Credit Facility for the issuance of a letter of credit.