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(12) Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Jan. 01, 2012
Long-term Debt, Unclassified [Abstract] |
Schedule of long-term debt |
| Year End
| 2011 |  | 2010
Senior Notes, due in 2016 (a) | $ | 554,901 |  |  | $ | 553,258 |
Term Loan, due in 2017 (b) | 466,062 |  |  | 495,226 |
6.20% senior notes, due in 2014 (c) | 224,643 |  |  | 217,855 |
7% debentures, due in 2025 (d) | 82,342 |  |  | 81,204 |
Capitalized lease obligations, due through 2040 | 15,222 |  |  | 86,670 |
Sale-leaseback obligations, due through 2029 | 1,466 |  |  | 121,884 |
Other | 1,060 |  |  | 3,634 |
| 1,345,696 |  |  | 1,559,731 |
Less amounts payable within one year | (5,137 | ) |  | (17,047 | )
Total Wendy’s Restaurants long-term debt | 1,340,559 |  |  | 1,542,684 |
6.54% aircraft term loan, due in 2013 (e) | 11,303 |  |  | 12,671 |
Less amounts payable within one year | (1,460 | ) |  | (1,368 | )
Total The Wendy’s Company long-term debt | $ | 1,350,402 |  |  | $ | 1,553,987 |
Schedule of maturities of long-term debt | Aggregate annual maturities of long-term debt, excluding the effect of purchase accounting adjustments, discounts and interest rate swaps, as of January 1, 2012 were as follows:
Fiscal Year |  | Wendy’s Restaurants |  | Corporate |  | The Wendy’s Company
2012 |  | $ | 5,137 |  |  | $ | 1,460 |  |  | $ | 6,597 |
2013 |  | 5,967 |  |  | 9,843 |  |  | 15,810 |
2014 |  | 231,011 |  |  | — |  |  | 231,011 |
2015 |  | 5,637 |  |  | — |  |  | 5,637 |
2016 |  | 570,430 |  |  | — |  |  | 570,430 |
Thereafter |  | 557,442 |  |  | — |  |  | 557,442 |
|  | $ | 1,375,624 |  |  | $ | 11,303 |  |  | $ | 1,386,927 |

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