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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

NOTE 13 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS



We are currently a party to six leases for certain facilities where the lessor is a former officer of Monro or a family member of such former officer, or such former officer or family member has an interest in entities that are lessors.  The payments under such operating and capital leases amounted to $.8 million, $.8 million and $.7 million for the fiscal years ended March 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. These payments are comparable to rents paid to unrelated parties. No amounts were payable at March 31, 2018 or March 25, 2017. No related party leases exist, other than these six leases, and no new leases are contemplated.



For many years, we had a consulting agreement with an investment banking firm associated with a principal shareholder/director of Monro to provide financial advice.  The agreement provided for an annual fee of $.3 million, plus reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses and we incurred, under this agreement, fees of $.2 million during the year ended March 26, 2016.  Approximately half of all payments made to the investment banking firm under the consulting agreement were paid to another principal shareholder/director of Monro. In addition, this investment banking firm, from time to time, has provided other investment banking services to us for additional fees. During fiscal 2016, with approval by the independent members of the Board of Directors (excluding the Director associated with this firm), we paid additional fees of $1.0 million to this firm in connection with financial and strategic advisory services that were provided related to three unsuccessful acquisitions. In connection with making this payment, the aforementioned consulting agreement was canceled.