Employee Benefit Plans

6 Months Ended

Feb. 26, 2022

Postemployment Benefits [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

7. Employee Benefit Plans

Defined Contribution Retirement Savings Plan

The Company has a defined contribution retirement savings plan with a 401(k) feature for all eligible U.S. and Canadian employees not under collective bargaining agreements. The Company matches a portion of the employee’s contribution and may make an additional contribution at its discretion. Contributions charged to expense under the plan for the thirteen weeks ended February 26, 2022 and February 27, 2021 were $3.9 million and $4.3 million, respectively. Contributions charged to expense under the plan for the twenty-six weeks ended February 26, 2022 and February 27, 2021 were $9.5 million and $10.1 million, respectively.

Pension Plans and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans

The Company maintains an unfunded Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan for certain eligible employees of the Company and one frozen non-contributory defined benefit pension plan. The amounts charged to expense related to these plans for the thirteen weeks ended February 26, 2022 and February 27, 2021 were $0.6 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The amounts charged to expense related to these plans for the twenty-six weeks ended February 26, 2022 and February 27, 2021 were $1.3 million and $1.5 million, respectively.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan

The Company adopted the UniFirst Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan (the “NQDC Plan”) effective on February 1, 2022. The NQDC Plan is an unfunded, nonqualified deferred compensation plan that allows eligible participants to voluntarily defer receipt of their salary and annual cash bonuses up to approved limits. In its discretion, the Company may credit one or more additional contributions to participant accounts. NQDC Plan participants who are not accruing benefits under the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan are eligible to have discretionary annual employer contributions credited to their NQDC Plan accounts. All

participants are also eligible to have employer supplemental contributions and employer discretionary contributions credited to their NQDC Plan accounts. The amounts of such contributions may differ from year to year and from participant to participant. There were no employee or employer contributions charged to expense related to this plan for the thirteen or twenty-six weeks ended February 26, 2022.