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 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $361,400, $319,700 and $309,800, respectively.

Operating Leases

As of December 29, 2018, the Company rents its corporate headquarters in a facility with a lease that expires in December 2029 as well as satellite office space in California with a lease that expires in August 2022. 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, inclusive of maintenance, insurance, taxes and other expenses, was $1,235,000 in 2018, $1,102,000 in 2017 and $1,066,500 in 2016. As of December 29, 2018, minimum rental commitments under noncancelable operating leases, exclusive of maintenance, insurance, taxes and other expenses, are as follows:


2019	$	503,700
2020		762,500
2021		783,600
2022		784,400
2023		763,300
Thereafter		5,042,900
Total	$	8,640,400

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 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, total deferred rent included in our consolidated balance sheets was $0.3 million and $0.4 million, respectively, of which $0.2 million and $0.2 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.