Percentage of Annual Bonus Settled With Vested Restricted Stock Unit Awards

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Share-Based Awards, Recipient Retirement Age

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Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award annual vesting percentage.

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Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award options expiration term.

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Vested restricted stock awards holding period.

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the 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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Stock-Based Compensation - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jul. 03, 2015	Jul. 04, 2014	Jul. 03, 2015	Jul. 04, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Options Expiration Term			10 years
Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of annual bonus settled with fully vested restricted stock unit awards			40.00%
Unvested Restricted Stock \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Recipient age to expense award on grant date			59 years 6 months
Employee Stock Option
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation expense	$ 51,000	$ 64,000	$ 448,000	$ 544,000
Vesting percentage of stock options granted per year	25.00%
Stock based compensation, vesting period			4 years
Vested Restricted Stock Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation expense	$ 1,650,000	1,582,000	$ 3,343,000	3,168,000
Stock based compensation, holding period			4 years
Unvested Restricted Stock Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation expense	$ 980,000	$ 936,000	$ 4,111,000	$ 4,163,000
Stock based compensation, vesting period			4 years
Unvested Stock Options \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Recipient age to expense award on grant date			59 years 6 months