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Commitments and Contingencies:
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 28, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies:  
Commitments and Contingencies:

11.          Commitments and Contingencies:

 

Employee Benefit Plan

 

The Company provides a 401(k) Savings Incentive Plan which covers substantially all employees.  The plan provides for matching contributions and optional profit-sharing contributions at the discretion of the Board of Directors.  Employee contributions are fully vested; matching and profit sharing contributions are subject to a five-year service vesting schedule.  Company contributions to the plan for 2013, 2012 and 2011 were $281,900, $271,800 and $280,000, respectively.

 

Operating Leases

 

As of December 28, 2013, the Company rents its corporate headquarters in a facility with a lease that expires in August 2019 as well as satellite office space in California with a lease that expires in January 2014.  In October 2013, the Company signed a lease to relocate its satellite office space in California in a facility with a lease that commences in 2014 and expires in 2019.  These leases require the Company to pay maintenance, insurance, taxes and other expenses in addition to minimum annual rent.  Total rent expense under operating leases was $883,800 in 2013, $866,300 in 2012 and $840,600 in 2011.  As of December 28, 2013, minimum rental commitments under noncancelable operating leases, exclusive of maintenance, insurance, taxes and other expenses, are as follows:

 

2014

 

$

603,200

 

2015

 

677,500

 

2016

 

691,200

 

2017

 

705,000

 

2018

 

718,800

 

Thereafter

 

446,100

 

Total

 

$

3,841,800

 

 

For leases that contain predetermined fixed escalations of the minimum rent, we recognize the related rent expense on a straight-line basis from the date we take possession of the property to the end of the initial lease term.  We record any difference between the straight-line rent amounts and amounts payable under the leases as part of deferred rent, in accrued liabilities or other liabilities, as appropriate.

 

Cash or lease incentives received upon entering into certain leases (“tenant allowances”) are recognized on a straight-line basis as a reduction to rent from the date we take possession of the property through the end of the initial lease term.  We record the unamortized portion of tenant allowances as a part of deferred rent, in accrued liabilities or other liabilities, as appropriate.

 

At December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012, total deferred rent included in our consolidated balance sheets was $1.1 million and $1.1 million, respectively, of which $1.0 million and $0.9 million, respectively was included in other liabilities.

 

Litigation

 

The Company is exposed to a number of asserted and unasserted legal claims encountered in the normal course of business.  Management believes that the ultimate resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position or results of operations of the Company.