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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2020
Related Party Transactions  
Related Party Transactions

(17) Related Party Transactions

As of December 29, 2020, we had seven franchise restaurants and two majority-owned company restaurants owned in part by certain of our officers. These franchise entities paid us fees of $1.6 million for the year ended December 29, 2020. As of December 31, 2019 and December 25, 2018, we had six franchise restaurants and one majority-owned company restaurant owned in part by certain of our officers. These franchise entities paid us fees of $1.4 million and $1.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2019 and December 25, 2018, respectively. As discussed in note 13, we

are contingently liable on a lease related to one of these franchise restaurants.

On December 3, 2018, we acquired one franchise restaurant owned in part by our founder. This entity paid us fees of $0.1 million for the year ended December 25, 2018.

In addition, in 2018, our founder made a personal contribution of $1.0 million to cover a portion of the planned expenses incurred as part of the annual managing partner conference which marked our 25th anniversary.  This amount was recorded as general and administrative expense on the consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income and as additional paid-in-capital on the consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity.