Acquisition (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 28, 2015

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Schedule of Business Acquisitions, by Acquisition [Table Text Block]

Since the beginning of the first quarter of 2014, the Company has acquired an aggregate of 127 restaurants from other franchisees, which we refer to as the "2014 and 2015 acquired restaurants", in the following transactions:

Closing Date	Number of Restaurants	Purchase Price			Market Location
April 30, 2014	4	$	681		Fort Wayne, Indiana
June 30, 2014	4	3,819		(1)	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
July 22, 2014	21	8,609			Rochester, New York and Southern Tier of Western New York
October 8, 2014	30	20,330		(1)	Wilmington and Greenville, North Carolina
November 4, 2014	64	18,761		(2)	Nashville, Tennessee; Indiana and Illinois
March 31, 2015	4	794			Northern Vermont
	127	$	52,994

(1) The acquisitions on June 30, 2014 and October 8, 2014 included the purchase of one and twelve fee-owned properties, respectively. Ten of these fee-owned properties were sold in sale-leaseback transactions during the fourth quarter of 2014 for net proceeds of $12,961 and one property was sold in a sale-leaseback transaction at the beginning of the first quarter of 2015 for net proceeds of $1,123.

(2) In connection with the acquisition on November 4, 2014, the Company entered into an agreement with BKC to remodel 46 of the restaurants acquired over a five-year period beginning in 2014.

Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Information [Table Text Block]

The following table summarizes the Company's unaudited pro forma operating results:

	Three Months Ended		Six Months Ended
	June 29, 2014		June 28, 2015			June 29, 2014
Restaurant sales	$	203,974	$	413,408		$	387,632
Net income (loss)	$	175	$	(14,051	)	$	(6,211	)
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share	$	0.01	$	(0.40	)	$	(0.23	)