Note 5 - Loans Payable and Long-term Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Aug. 30, 2014

Disclosure Text Block [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments [Table Text Block]

	August 30, 2014		August 31, 2013
Series D, floating rate notes due September 2013 bearing interest at LIBOR plus 50 basis points, which was 0.77% as of August 31, 2013.	$	—	$	100,000
Other		7,859		11,408
Long-term debt		7,859		111,408
Less – loans payable and current maturities of long-term debt		7,704		111,253
	$	155	$	155

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

2015	$	7,704
2016		—
2017		—
2018		—
2019		—
Thereafter		155
Total	$	7,859