NOTE 12 — EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

We maintain a contributory plan established pursuant to the provisions of section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. The plan provides retirement benefits for all nonunion employees meeting minimum age and service requirements. We currently match 100% of the first three percent contributed by each employee and 50% of the next two percent contributed, up to certain maximums specified in the plan. Our expense for the 401(k) plan was as follows for the last three fiscal years:


	Year ended June 27, 2013		Year ended June 28, 2012		Year ended June 30, 2011
401(k) plan expense	$	1,171	$	922	$	554

During the first quarter of fiscal 2009, we recorded a long-term liability of $868 for the withdrawal from the multiemployer plan (“Route pension”) for the step-van drivers that were employed for our store-door delivery system that was discontinued during the third quarter of fiscal 2008. Pursuant to terms of settlement with a labor union, we are making monthly payments of $8 (including interest) through April 2022.

The total route pension liability was as follows for the last two fiscal years:


	June 27, 2013		June 28, 2012
Route pension liability	$	646	$	699

Virtually all of our salaried employees participate in our Sanfilippo Value Added Plan (as amended, the “SVA Plan”) which is a non-equity cash incentive plan (an economic value added-based program) administered by our Compensation Committee. We accrue expense related to the SVA Plan in the annual period that the economic performance underlying such performance occurs. This method of expense recognition properly matches the expense associated with improved economic performance with the period the improved performance occurs on a systematic and rational basis.

We also employ several union-represented employees and contribute to one multiemployer defined benefit pension plan and one multiemployer defined contribution plan under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

The risks of participating in the multiemployer pension plan are different from single-employer pension plan for the following reasons:

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Amounts contributed to the multiemployer plan by one employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers.

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If a participating employer stops contributing to the plan, the unfunded obligations of the plan may be borne by the remaining participating employers.

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If we choose to stop participating in the plan, we may be required to pay the plan an amount based on the unfunded status of the plan, referred to as the withdrawal liability.

The estimated withdrawal liability at June 27, 2013 is not significant. Contributions to these plans for the last three fiscal years were not significant. The Pension Protection Act certified zone status was green as of June 30, 2012 which was the date of the most recent annual funding notice.