Accrued expenses and current portion of other long-term liabilities consisted of the following:



	March 28,		September 27,
	2026		2025
Property, payroll and other taxes payable	$	14,727,017	$	24,420,782
Salaries, wages and bonuses payable		39,181,401		46,997,042
Self-insurance liabilities		16,680,945		17,771,028
Interest payable		4,606,787		4,752,916
Income taxes		18,687,508		—
Other		7,107,698		6,572,619
	$	100,991,356	$	100,514,387

Self-insurance liabilities are established for general liability claims, workers’ compensation and employee group medical and dental benefits based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The Company is currently insured for covered costs in excess of $1.0 million per occurrence for workers’ compensation and for general liability and $650,000 per covered person for medical care benefits for a policy year. The Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $36.0 million at March 28, 2026. Of this amount, $16.7 million was accounted for as a current liability and $19.3 million as a long-term liability, which included $3.2 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that was recorded as a receivable. At September 27, 2025, the Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $38.3 million of which $17.8 million was accounted for as a current liability and $20.5 million as a long-term liability, which included $3.3 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that was recorded as a receivable.

Employee insurance expense, including workers’ compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $11.3 million and $12.0 million for the three-month periods ended March 28, 2026 and March 29, 2025, respectively. For both the six-month periods ended March 28, 2026 and March 29, 2025, employee insurance expense, net of employee contributions totaled $23.2 million.

The Company’s fuel operations use underground tanks for the storage of gasoline and diesel fuel. The Company reviewed FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 410 (“FASB ASC 410”) and determined that it had a legal obligation to remove tanks at various times in the future and accordingly determined that the Company had met the requirements for an asset retirement obligation. The Company followed the FASB ASC 410 model for determining the asset retirement cost and asset retirement obligation. The amounts recorded were immaterial for each fuel center as well as in the aggregate, at March 28, 2026 and September 27, 2025.