Value of equity-based payment equity instruments, other than options, granted.

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other Than Options, Reduction Of Aggregate Intrinsic Value, Percent

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The term of equity-based award agreement, which may be presented in a variety of ways (for example, year, month and year, day, month and year, quarter of a year).

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Aggregate number of common shares reserved for future issuance.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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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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Number of additional shares authorized for issuance under share-based payment arrangement.

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Percentage of vesting of award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Employee Benefit Plans - Long-Term Incentive Plans (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		12 Months Ended
	May 23, 2018	Jan. 01, 2022	Mar. 31, 2016
Nonemployee director \| Restricted stock units
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Value of awards granted		$ 130
Vesting percentage of awards granted		100.00%
Reduction of annual grant	25.00%
2016 long term incentive plan
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Number of common shares reserved for issuance (in shares)	10,288,468		3,000,000
Number of additional shares of common stock (in shares)	5,000,000
Term of award under the plan		10 years
Vesting period		3 years
2008 long term incentive plan
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Number of additional shares of common stock (in shares)	2,288,468