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Note 10 - Pension Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 27, 2013
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] |
Schedule of Multiemployer Plans [Table Text Block] |
|  | (In thousands) |
Pension Fund |  | Fiscal 2013 |  |  | Fiscal 2012 |  |  | Fiscal 2011 |
CSSS Fund |  | $ | 1,051 |  |  | $ | 944 |  |  | $ | 897 |
WCT Fund |  |  | 471 |  |  |  | 455 |  |  |  | 612 |
Other multi-employer pension funds |  |  | 262 |  |  |  | 244 |  |  |  | 224 |
Total |  | $ | 1,784 |  |  | $ | 1,643 |  |  | $ | 1,733 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the quantitative and qualitative information related to multiemployer plans in which the employer participates. A multiemployer plan is a pension or postretirement benefit plan to which two or more unrelated employers contribute where assets contributed by one participating employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -SubTopic 80 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=2235144 + Details
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