Concentration risk percentage of related party products volume to customers.

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Multiemployer plans collective bargaining arrangement expiration term.

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Number of customers other than major customers representing more than ten percent of sales.

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Number of domestic supplier of aluminum cans.

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Number of entities in which reporting entity is shareholder and purchases all plastic bottles.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Risks and Uncertainties - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017 Customer Supplier Entity	Jan. 01, 2017	Jan. 03, 2016
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of domestic supplier of aluminum cans \| Supplier	2
Number of entities in which reporting entity is shareholder and purchases all plastic bottles \| Entity	2
Coke Bottle Can Sales Volume Product [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage of related party products volume to customers	93.00%
Coke Bottle Can Sales Volume Product [Member] \| Product Concentration Risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	35.00%	34.00%	35.00%
Coke Bottle Can Sales Volume Product [Member] \| Product Concentration Risk [Member] \| Future Consumption [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	65.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	24.00%	24.00%	25.00%
Number of customers other than major customers representing more than ten percent of sales \| Customer	0
Collective Bargaining Agreements [Member] \| Labor Force Concentration Risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	14.00%
Collective Bargaining Agreements [Member] \| Labor Force Concentration Risk [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Multi-employer plans collective bargaining arrangements, expiration term	3 years
Collective Bargaining Agreements [Member] \| Labor Force Concentration Risk [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Multi-employer plans collective bargaining arrangements, expiration term	5 years