LEASES

12 Months Ended

Oct. 02, 2021

We have entered into various non-cancellable operating and finance lease agreements for certain of our offices, manufacturing, technology, sales support and service centers, equipment, and vehicles. We determine if an arrangement is a lease, or contains a lease, at inception and record the leases in our financial statements upon lease commencement, which is the date when the underlying asset is made available for use by the lessor. Our lease terms may include one or more options to extend the lease terms, for periods from one year to 20 years, when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. As of October 2, 2021, three options to extend the lease were recognized as right-of-use ("ROU") assets, and lease liabilities. We have lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, and non-lease components are accounted for separately and not included in our leased assets and corresponding liabilities. We have elected not to present short-term leases on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as these leases have a lease term of 12 months or less at lease inception.

Operating leases are included in operating ROU assets, current and non-current operating lease liabilities, and finance leases are included in property, plant and equipment, accrued expenses and other current liabilities, and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of October 2, 2021, our finance leases are not material.

The following table shows the components of lease expense:


(in thousands)	Fiscal
	2021		2020
Operating lease expense (1)	$	7,629	6,942

(1) Operating lease expense includes short-term lease expense, which is immaterial for the fiscal year ended October 2, 2021.

The following table shows the cash flows arising from lease transactions. Cash payments related to short-term leases are not included in the measurement of operating and finance lease liabilities, and, as such, are excluded from the amounts below:


(in thousands)	Fiscal
	2021		2020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash outflows from operating leases	$	7,211	$	6,296

The following table shows the weighted-average lease terms and discount rates for operating leases:


	Fiscal
	2021		2020
Operating leases:
Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years):	9.6		4.5
Weighted-average discount rate:	5.8	%	4.8	%

Future lease payments, excluding short-term leases, as of October 2, 2021, are detailed as follows:


(in thousands)	Operating leases
Fiscal 2022	$	7,249
Fiscal 2023	6,621
Fiscal 2024	6,224
Fiscal 2025	5,903
Fiscal 2026	5,085
Fiscal 2027 and thereafter	26,372
Total minimum lease payments	57,454
Less: Interest	14,467
Present value of lease obligations	42,987
Less: Current portion	4,903
Long-term portion of lease obligations	$	38,084