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Taxes (Details 3) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 03, 2015	Dec. 28, 2013	Dec. 29, 2012
Income tax contingency
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U.S. income tax
Income tax contingency
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Foreign income tax
Income tax contingency
Tax benefit from exercise of non-qualified stock options and stock appreciation rights and vesting of restricted stock and restricted stock units	$ 400,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxExpenseFromStockOptionsExercised / us-gaap_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis = us-gaap_ForeignCountryMember	$ 800,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxExpenseFromStockOptionsExercised / us-gaap_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis = us-gaap_ForeignCountryMember	$ 500,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxExpenseFromStockOptionsExercised / us-gaap_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis = us-gaap_ForeignCountryMember

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