Retirement Benefits	12 Months Ended
Apr. 27, 2024
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]
Retirement Benefits	Note 9. Retirement Benefits Defined contribution plans The Company has an employee 401(k) Savings Plan covering substantially all U.S. employees to which it makes contributions equal to 3% of eligible compensation. In addition, certain of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries also have defined contribution savings plans. Company contributions to these plans were $1.5 million, $1.2 million and $1.2 million in fiscal 2024, fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2022, respectively. Non-qualified deferred compensation plan The Company maintains a non-qualified deferred compensation plan (“NQDC Plan”) for certain eligible employees and members of the Board of Directors. Under the NQDC Plan, employees may elect to defer up to 75% of their annual base salary and 100% of their annual cash incentive compensation, with an aggregate minimum deferral of $3,000. Directors may defer all or a portion of their annual directors’ fees or annual stock awards. The minimum period of deferral is three years. Participants are immediately 100% vested. The Company does not make any contributions to the NQDC Plan. The deferred compensation liability for the NDQC Plan was $9.7 million and $9.4 million as of April 27, 2024 and April 29, 2023, respectively. The Company has purchased life insurance policies on certain employees, which are held in a Rabbi trust, to potentially offset these unsecured obligations. These life insurance policies are recorded at their cash surrender value of $8.7 million and $7.7 million as of April 27, 2024 and April 29, 2023, respectively, and are included in other long-term assets in the consolidated balance sheets. The Company also owned and was the beneficiary of a number of life insurance policies on the lives of former key executives that were unrestricted as to use. These life insurance policies, which were recorded at their cash surrender value, were redeemed for $10.8 million in fiscal 2024. As of April 29, 2023, the cash surrender value of these life insurance policies was $10.4 million and included in other long-term assets in the consolidated balance sheets. The cash surrender value of the life insurance policies approximates its fair value and is classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

Retirement Benefits

12 Months Ended

Apr. 27, 2024

Note 9. Retirement Benefits

Defined contribution plans

The Company has an employee 401(k) Savings Plan covering substantially all U.S. employees to which it makes contributions equal to 3% of eligible compensation. In addition, certain of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries also have defined contribution savings plans. Company contributions to these plans were $1.5 million, $1.2 million and $1.2 million in fiscal 2024, fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2022, respectively.

Non-qualified deferred compensation plan

The Company maintains a non-qualified deferred compensation plan (“NQDC Plan”) for certain eligible employees and members of the Board of Directors. Under the NQDC Plan, employees may elect to defer up to 75% of their annual base salary and 100% of their annual cash incentive compensation, with an aggregate minimum deferral of $3,000. Directors may defer all or a portion of their annual directors’ fees or annual stock awards. The minimum period of deferral is three years. Participants are immediately 100% vested. The Company does not make any contributions to the NQDC Plan.

The deferred compensation liability for the NDQC Plan was $9.7 million and $9.4 million as of April 27, 2024 and April 29, 2023, respectively. The Company has purchased life insurance policies on certain employees, which are held in a Rabbi trust, to potentially offset these unsecured obligations. These life insurance policies are recorded at their cash surrender value of $8.7 million and $7.7 million as of April 27, 2024 and April 29, 2023, respectively, and are included in other long-term assets in the consolidated balance sheets.

The Company also owned and was the beneficiary of a number of life insurance policies on the lives of former key executives that were unrestricted as to use. These life insurance policies, which were recorded at their cash surrender value, were redeemed for $10.8 million in fiscal 2024. As of April 29, 2023, the cash surrender value of these life insurance policies was $10.4 million and included in other long-term assets in the consolidated balance sheets.

The cash surrender value of the life insurance policies approximates its fair value and is classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.