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Other Assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Jan. 03, 2015
Other Assets, Noncurrent [Abstract] |
Schedule of other assets | Other assets as of January 3, 2015, and December 28, 2013, consist of the following:
| January 3, 2015 |  | December 28, 2013
Deposits | $ | 375 |  |  | $ | 411 |
Recycling contract, net | 100 |  |  | 179 |
Deferred financing costs, net | 174 |  |  | 278 |
Patent costs | 21 |  |  | 21 |
Goodwill | 38 |  |  | 38 |
| $ | 708 |  |  | $ | 927 |
Schedule of expected recycling contract amortization expense | Estimated future amortization expense over the remaining life of our recycling contract is as follows:
Fiscal year 2015 | $ | 80 |
Fiscal year 2016 | 20 |

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