Value of equity-based payment equity instruments, other than options, granted.

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Represents the number of installments in which the options are exercisable other than exercisable on the first anniversary of the date of grant.

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Percentage of options granted under the plan that became exercisable on the first anniversary of the grant date.

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Percentage of options granted under the company's plan that became exercisable on the second and third anniversaries of the grant date.

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The term of equity-based award agreement, which may be presented in a variety of ways (for example, year, month and year, day, month and year, quarter of a year).

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Aggregate number of common shares reserved for future issuance.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.29)
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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of options outstanding, including both vested and non-vested options.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
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Employee Benefit Plans (Long-Term Incentive Plans) (Details) $ in Thousands		12 Months Ended
	Mar. 25, 2008 installment	Jan. 02, 2016 USD ($) shares	Mar. 26, 2008 shares
Nonemployee director \| Restricted stock units
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Vesting period		1 year
Value of awards granted \| $		$ 130
2008 LTIP
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Number of common shares reserved for issuance (in shares)		4,685,030
Term of award under the plan		10 years
Vesting period		3 years
Initial LTIP
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Term of award under the plan	10 years
Number of outstanding awards (in shares)			41,342
Nonemployee Plan
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Percentage of options granted that became exercisable on first anniversary of the date of grant	50.00%
Number of installments in which options are exercisable \| installment	2
Options granted that became exercisable on second and third anniversary of the date of grant (as a percent)	25.00%
Number of outstanding awards (in shares)			15,750
Nonemployee Plan \| Minimum
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Vesting period	3 years
Nonemployee Plan \| Maximum
Long-Term Incentive Plans
Vesting period	5 years