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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

Note 16 – Related Party Transactions

As of December 31, 2016, the Company leased its office headquarters building and one tavern location from a company 33% beneficially owned by Blake L. Sartini and 3% beneficially owned by Stephen A. Arcana, and leased three tavern locations from companies owned or controlled by Mr. Sartini or by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Sartini’s immediate family members for which Mr. Sartini serves as trustee. In addition, three tavern locations that the Company had previously leased from related parties were divested by those related parties during 2016. The lease for the Company’s office headquarters building expires on July 31, 2025, and the leases for the tavern locations have remaining terms of up to 11 years. Rent expense during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 was $1.1 million and $0.5 million, respectively, for the office headquarters building and $1.3 million and $0.6 million, respectively, in the aggregate for such tavern locations. Additionally, a portion of the office headquarters building is sublet to a company owned or controlled by Mr. Sartini. Rental income during each of the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 for the sublet portion of the office headquarters building was less than $0.1 million. Less than $0.1 million was owed to the Company, and no amounts were due and payable by the Company, as of December 31, 2016 under the leases of such tavern locations and the lease of the office headquarters building. Less than $0.1 million was owed to the Company under the sublease of the office headquarters building as of December 31, 2016. Mr. Sartini serves as the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and is co-trustee of the Sartini Trust, which is a significant shareholder of the Company. Mr. Arcana serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company.  All of these related party lease agreements were in place prior to the consummation of the Merger.

From time to time, the Company’s executive officers and employees use for Company business a private aircraft owned by Sartini Enterprises, Inc., a company controlled by Mr. Sartini. In April 2016, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors approved the Company’s entering into an aircraft timesharing agreement between the Company and Sartini Enterprises, Inc. pursuant to which the Company will reimburse Sartini Enterprises, Inc. for direct costs and expenses incurred for travel on the private aircraft by Company employees while on Company business. The aircraft timesharing agreement specifies the maximum expense reimbursement that Sartini Enterprises, Inc. can charge the Company under the applicable regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration for the use of the aircraft and flight crew. Such costs include fuel, landing fees, hangar and tie-down costs away from the aircraft’s operating base, flight planning and weather contract services, crew costs and other related expenses. The Company’s compliance department regularly reviews these reimbursements. During the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company paid approximately $0.1 million, and as of December 31, 2016 the Company owed less than $0.1 million, under the aircraft timesharing agreement.

Mr. Sartini’s son, Blake L. Sartini, II (“Mr. Sartini II”), joined the Company as Senior Vice President of Distributed Gaming in connection with the Merger. Mr. Sartini II has an employment agreement that was approved by both the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors and provides for an annual base salary of $275,000 (and which was increased to $375,000 in 2017). Additionally, Mr. Sartini II is eligible for a target annual bonus equal to 35% of his base salary (and which was increased to 50% in 2017), and received a discretionary bonus of $30,000 during the first quarter of 2016 attributable to his performance in 2015. Mr. Sartini II also participates in the Company's equity award and benefit programs. In August 2016, Mr. Sartini II received a grant of 70,000 options to purchase the Company’s common stock with an exercise price of $12.51 per share, which stock options will vest over a four-year period (but pursuant to the 2015 Plan such stock options may not be exercised prior to August 1, 2018 except in limited circumstances).

Three of the distributed gaming locations at which the Company’s gaming devices are located are owned in part by the spouse of Matthew W. Flandermeyer, the Company’s former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. On November 11, 2016, Matthew Flandermeyer resigned, effective as of November 28, 2016, from his position with the Company. Net revenues and gaming expenses recorded by the Company from the use of the Company’s gaming devices at these three locations were $1.4 million and $1.2 million, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2016, in each case excluding net revenues and gaming expenses incurred during the period after the termination of Mr. Flandermeyer’s employment with the Company (as during such period the agreement was not with a related party). Net revenues and gaming expenses recorded by the Company from the use of the Company’s gaming devices at these three locations were $0.5 million and $0.5 million, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2015. The gaming expenses recorded by the Company represent amounts retained by the counterparty (with respect to the two locations that are subject to participation agreements) or paid to the counterparty (with respect to the location that is subject to a revenue share agreement) from the operation of the gaming devices. All of the agreements were in place prior to the consummation of the Merger.

One of the distributed gaming locations at which the Company’s gaming devices are located is owned in part by Sean T. Higgins, who serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Company. This agreement was in place prior to Mr. Higgins joining the Company on March 28, 2016. Net revenues and gaming expenses recorded by the Company from the use of the Company’s gaming devices at this location were $0.9 million and $0.8 million, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2016, in each case excluding net revenues and gaming expenses incurred during the period prior to the commencement of Mr. Higgins employment with the Company (as during such period the agreement was not with a related party). Less than $0.1 million was owed to the Company and no amounts were due and payable by the Company related to this agreement as of December 31, 2016.

Additionally, one distributed gaming location at which the Company’s gaming devices are located was owned in part by Terrence L. Wright, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Company, who divested his interest in such distributed gaming location in March 2016. Net revenues and gaming expenses recorded by the Company from the use of the Company’s gaming devices at this location during the period in which the agreement was with a related party were $0.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2016. This agreement was in place prior to the consummation of the Merger.