Commitments and Contingencies - Additional Information (Detail)	6 Months Ended
Jul. 15, 2017 USD ($) Retailer
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of independent retailer for unearned advanced amount \| Retailer	1
Percent of unearned advanced amount to total assets	2.00%
Outstanding receivable from customer	$ 8,100,000
Outstanding receivable from customer, past due	$ 4,800,000
Red zone fund status	Less than 65 percent
Minimum [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Estimated loss contingency	$ 0
Maximum [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Estimated loss contingency	$ 25,000,000
Status or red zone plans	65.00%

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Outstanding receivable from customer.

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Outstanding receivable from customer past due.

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Percent of unearned advanced amount to net assets.

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Status or red zone plans.

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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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Amount of receivable related to a loss contingency accrual. For example, an insurance recovery receivable.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 460
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82913245&loc=d3e12053-110248

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Indicate whether the multiemployer plan is less than 65 percent funded, between 65 and less than 80 percent funded, or at least 80 percent funded. The acceptable values are: (1) "less than 65 percent", (2) "between 65 and less than 80 percent", (3) "at least 80 percent", and (4) "NA". A multiemployer plan is a pension or postretirement benefit plan to which two or more unrelated employers contribute where assets contributed by one participating employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 80
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65877416&loc=SL14450657-114947

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