Related Party Transactions

6 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2024

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

ASC 850, Related Party Disclosures (“ASC 850”) provides guidance for the identification of related parties and the disclosure of related party transactions. Related parties are generally defined as (i) affiliates of the Company; (ii) owners of more than 10% of the voting interests of the Company and members of their immediate families; (iii) management of the Company and members of their immediate families; (iv) other parties which directly or indirectly control, are controlled by, or are under common control with the Company; or (v) other parties who can significantly influence the financial and operating decisions of the Company. A transaction is considered to be a related party transaction when there is a transfer of resources or obligations between related parties. The Company assesses related parties each reporting period. For the reporting periods covered by this report, the Company determined that C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (“C&S”) was a related party under ASC 850 and the following transactions were related party transactions under ASC 850.

Aircraft Time Sharing Agreement

In December 2021 and May 2022, the Company entered into aircraft time-sharing agreements with C&S whereby the Company’s officials, employees, and guests are permitted to use the two C&S aircraft on an as-needed and as-available basis, with no minimum usage being required. As there is no defined period of time stated within these aircraft time-sharing agreements, the Company does not consider these to meet the definition of a lease, and as such, records payments in the period in which the obligation for the payment is incurred. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company incurred expense of $0.3 million and $0.5 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, the Company incurred expense of $0.3 million and $0.4 million, respectively, related to these aircraft time-sharing agreements.

Usage of Facility and Employee Services

The Company has a license arrangement with C&S whereby C&S is providing receiving and logistics services for the Company within a C&S distribution facility. The arrangement also provides for C&S employees assisting with certain of the Company’s operations. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company incurred expense of $0.8 million and $1.5 million, respectively, and for the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, the Company incurred expense of $0.7 million and $1.0 million, respectively, related to this arrangement.

Customer Contracts

The Company has customer contracts with C&S relating to systems implementation, software maintenance services and the operations of a warehouse automation system. For the three and six months ended March 30, 2024, revenue of $23.0 million and $35.6 million was recognized, respectively, relating to these customer contracts. For the three and six months ended March 25, 2023, revenue of $7.2 million and $12.7 million was recognized, respectively, relating to these customer contracts. There was $2.9 million accounts receivable due from and $10.3 million of unbilled receivables for C&S at March 30, 2024, and $0.9 million accounts receivable due from C&S at September 30, 2023. There was $1.0 million and $9.3 million of deferred revenue related to contracts with C&S at March 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively.