Lease Committments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 2012

Lease Committments [Abstract]

Leases of Lessee Disclosure [Text Block]

Lease Commitments

The Company leases real property, leasehold interests, and office, restaurant and transportation equipment. Some leases which relate to restaurant operations provide for contingent rentals based on sales volume. Certain leases also provide for payments of other costs such as real estate taxes, insurance and common area maintenance, which are not included in rental expense or the future minimum rental payments set forth below.

Rental expense under operating leases consists of the following components:

	Year Ended
	2012			2011			2010
Minimum rentals	$	70,525		$	70,478		$	68,849
Contingent rentals	10,971			10,468			10,033
	81,496			80,946			78,882
Less sublease income	(13,317		)	(15,084		)	(14,275		)
	$	68,179		$	65,862		$	64,607

As of December 30, 2012, the Company’s future minimum rental payments and rental receipts for non-cancelable leases, including rental receipts for leased properties owned by the Company having an initial or remaining non-cancelable lease term in excess of one year, are as follows:

	Rental Payments					Rental Receipts
Fiscal Year	Capital Leases			Operating Leases		Capital Leases		Operating Leases		Owned Properties
2013	$	4,393		$	66,426	$	598	$	5,953	$	4,547
2014	4,625			58,486		605		5,664		4,487
2015	4,715			54,651		605		5,258		4,457
2016	4,158			50,735		635		4,985		4,422
2017	3,999			49,149		631		4,527		4,462
Thereafter	43,804			642,458		5,866		32,412		54,290
Total minimum payments	$	65,694		$	921,905	$	8,940	$	58,799	$	76,665
Less amounts representing interest, with interest rates between 3% and 33%	(33,100		)
Present value of minimum lease payments	$	32,594

The present values of minimum lease obligation payments are included either in “Long-term debt” or “Current portion of long-term debt,” as applicable.

Properties leased by the Company to third parties under operating leases as of December 30, 2012 and January 1, 2012 include:

	Year End
	2012			2011
Land	$	28,989		$	24,211
Buildings and improvements	64,286			58,505
Office, restaurant and transportation equipment	4,337			4,377
	97,612			87,093
Accumulated depreciation and amortization	(26,905		)	(20,019		)
	$	70,707		$	67,074