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Term of lessee's finance lease renewal, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Term of lessee's finance lease, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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The number of units (items of property) under operating lease arrangements.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 360
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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LEASES (Significant Changes in Leases in the Period) (Details)	Jun. 24, 2020	Sep. 25, 2019 Leases	Sep. 05, 2019 Leases	Jun. 26, 2019 Location
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Number of operating leases \| Location				152
Chili's Restaurants [Member]
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Number of operating leases \| Location				151
Number of finance leases			12
Finance Leases, Term of Contract	11 years
Chili's Restaurants [Member] \| Franchisee [Member]
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Number of operating leases			90
Chili's Restaurants [Member] \| Equipment [Member]
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Number of finance leases		1
Finance Leases, Term of Contract	3 years
Finance Leases, Renewal Term	3 years