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Capital Stock (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Apr. 23, 2016
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract] |
Schedule of Share Repurchases Under Current and Previously Authorized Share Repurchase Programs | Repurchases of Common Stock - The Company made the following share repurchases during fiscal 2015 and the interim periods of fiscal 2016:
Period |  | Number of Shares Repurchased |  | Total Consideration (Dollars in thousands) |  | Average Price Per Share
Fiscal 2015 |  | 1,669,924 |  |  | $ | 87,146 |  |  | $ | 52.19 |
Fiscal 2016: |  |  |  |  |  |
Three months ended October 24, 2015 |  | 954,224 |  |  | $ | 69,997 |  |  | $ | 73.35 |
Three months ended April 23, 2016 |  | 1,557,354 |  |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | 64.21 |

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