Joint Venture Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2022

Investments in and Advance to Affiliates, Subsidiaries, Associates, and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Joint Venture Transactions

13. Joint Venture Transactions

At December 29, 2022 and December 30, 2021, the Company held investments with aggregate carrying values of $2,067 and $2,335, respectively. Investments at December 29, 2022 included one joint venture accounted for under the equity method. Investments at December 30, 2021 included two joint ventures accounted for under the equity method.

In December 2021, the Company formed a joint venture with Searchlight Capital Partners (“Searchlight”) to acquire the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh (“Monaco”), a 248-room upper upscale hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Company invested $2,427 for a 10% equity interest in the Monaco joint venture and entered into a management agreement for the hotel. The Monaco joint venture entity, as the borrower, financed the acquisition of Monaco with a non-recourse mortgage loan. In connection with this mortgage loan, the Company provided an environmental indemnity and a “bad boy” guaranty that provides that the lender can recover losses from the Company for certain bad acts of the Monaco joint venture, such as but not limited to fraud, intentional misrepresentation, voluntary incurrence of prohibited debt, prohibited transfers of the collateral, and voluntary bankruptcy of the Monaco joint venture. Under the terms of the Monaco joint venture operating agreement, Searchlight has fully indemnified the Company under the “bad boy” guarantees for any losses other than those attributable to the Company’s own bad acts and has indemnified the Company to its proportionate liability under the environmental liability.

During fiscal 2020, the Company recorded an other-than-temporary impairment loss of approximately $811 in which it was determined that the fair value of its equity method investment in a joint venture was less than its carrying value. The $811 impairment loss is included within equity losses from unconsolidated joint ventures in the consolidated statement of earnings (loss) as of December 31, 2020. Early in fiscal 2021, pursuant to a recapitalization of this joint venture, the Company surrendered its ownership interest in this entity.

The Company also sold its interest in an equity investment without a readily determinable fair value in fiscal 2021 for $4,150 and recorded a gain of $2,079, which is included in gain on disposition of property, equipment and other assets in the consolidated statement of earnings (loss).