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Related Parties
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2011
Related Parties [Abstract]  
Related Parties

Note 15 – Related Parties

The Company leases two warehouse facilities from related parties. These facilities are owned by entities owned 100% by Christopher Pappas, John Pappas and Dean Facatselis and are deemed to be affiliates of these individuals. Expense related to the above facilities was $1,537 for each of the years ended December 30, 2011, December 24, 2010, and December 25, 2009.

One of our non-employee directors, Stephen Hanson, is the President and a 50% owner of a New York City-based multi-concept restaurant operator holding company. Certain subsidiaries of this holding company are customers of the Company and its subsidiaries that purchased an aggregate of approximately $2.8 million of products from us during fiscal 2011. Terms provided to these customers were determined in the ordinary course of business, at arm’s length and materially consistent with those of other customers with similar volumes and purchasing patterns.

Each of Christopher Pappas, John Pappas and Dean Facatselis owns 8.33% of a New York City-based restaurant customer of the Company and its subsidiaries that purchased an aggregate of approximately $238,000 of products from us during fiscal 2011. Messrs. C. Pappas, J. Pappas and Facatselis have no other interest in the restaurant other than these equal interests and are not involved in the day-to-day operation or management of this restaurant. Terms provided to this customer were determined in the ordinary course of business, at arm’s length and materially consistent with those of other customers with similar volumes and purchasing patterns.

John Pappas’s brother-in-law, Constantine Papataros, is one of our employees. We paid him $182,347 in total compensation in fiscal 2011.