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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Jan. 01, 2012
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
(12) Related Party Transactions

G. Michael Brown is a director of the Company and a partner of the law firm of Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP. From time to time, the Company retains Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP to handle various litigation matters. The Company received services from Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP amounting to $0.8 million, $0.6 million and $0.5 million in fiscal 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Amounts due to Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP totaled $59,000 and $75,000 as of January 1, 2012 and January 2, 2011, respectively.

Prior to his death in fiscal 2008, the Company had an employment agreement with Robert W. Miller (“Mr. Miller”), co-founder of the Company and the father of Steven G. Miller, Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, and Michael D. Miller, a director of the Company. The employment agreement provided for Mr. Miller to receive an annual base salary of $350,000. The employment agreement further provided that, following his death, the Company will pay his surviving wife $350,000 per year and provide her specified benefits for the remainder of her life. During fiscal 2011, 2010 and 2009, the Company made a payment of $350,000 to Mr. Miller’s wife. The Company recognized expense of $0.3 million, $0.3 million and $0.4 million in fiscal 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively, to provide for a liability for the future obligations under this agreement. Based upon actuarial valuation estimates related to this agreement, the Company recorded a liability of $1.7 million and $1.7 million as of January 1, 2012 and January 2, 2011, respectively. The short-term portion of this liability is recorded in accrued expenses, and the long-term portion is recorded in other long-term liabilities.