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Related Party Transactions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Related Party Transactions |
Related Party Transactions | 16. Related Party Transactions Certain of our officers own equity interests in entities that franchise restaurants. Following is a summary of full-year transactions and year-end balances with franchisees owned by related parties (in thousands):
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |
Revenues from affiliates: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North America commissary sales and other sales |  | $ | 2,619 |  | $ | 2,620 |  | $ | 2,730 |
North America franchise royalties and fees |  |  | 776 |  |  | 413 |  |  | 394 |
Total |  | $ | 3,395 |  | $ | 3,033 |  | $ | 3,124 |
|  | December 31, |  | December 25, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Accounts receivable affiliates |  | $ | 86 |  | $ | 105 |
Accounts payable affiliates |  | $ | — |  | $ | 12 |
The revenues from affiliates were at rates and terms available to independent franchisees. We paid $446,000 in 2017, $732,000 in 2016 and $653,000 in 2015 for charter aircraft services provided by an entity owned by our Founder and Chairman. We had the following transactions with PJMF:
| · |  | PJMF reimbursed Papa John’s $1.6 million, $1.1 million and $841,000 in 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively, for certain costs associated with national pizza giveaways awarded to our online loyalty program customers.
| · |  | PJMF reimbursed Papa John’s $1.3 million in 2017 and $1.4 million in 2016 and 2015 for certain administrative services (i.e., marketing, accounting, and information services), graphic design services, services and expenses of our founder as brand spokesman, and for software maintenance fees.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122745 + Details
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