The Partnership leases certain property, plant and equipment, including portions of its vehicle fleet, for various periods under noncancelable leases all of which were determined to be operating leases. The Partnership determines if an agreement contains a lease at inception based on the Partnership’s right to the economic benefits of the leased assets and its right to direct the use of the leased asset. Right-of-use assets represent the Partnership’s right to use an underlying asset, and right-of-use liabilities represent the Partnership’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of the lease payments over the lease term. As most of the Partnership’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Partnership uses its estimated incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date, adjusted for the lease term, to determine the present value of the lease payments. This rate is calculated based on a collateralized rate for the specific leasing activities of the Partnership.

Some leases include one or more options to renew at the Partnership’s discretion, with renewal terms that can extend the lease from one to fifteen additional years. The renewal options are included in the measurement of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities if the Partnership is reasonably certain to exercise the renewal options. Short-term leases are leases having an initial term of twelve months or less. The Partnership recognizes expenses for short-term leases on a straight-line basis, includes future minimum lease payments in the table below and does not record a lease asset or lease liability for such leases.

The Partnership elected the following practical expedients related to Topic 842: (1) a package of practical expedients that allows the Partnership to not reassess: (a) whether expired or existing contracts contained leases; (b) the lease classification for expired or existing leases; and (c) the initial direct costs for existing leases; (2) for all underlying asset classes, an expedient that allows the Partnership to not apply the recognition requirements to short-term leases and account for lease and associated non-lease components as a single lease component; (3) an expedient that allows the use of hindsight to determine lease term; and (4) an expedient that allows the Partnership to not evaluate land easements that existed or expired before the Partnership’s fiscal 2020 adoption of Topic 842, and that were not previously accounted for as leases.

The Partnership has residual value guarantees associated with certain of its operating leases, related primarily to transportation equipment. See Note 14, “Guarantees” for more information.

The Partnership does not have any material lease obligations that were signed, but not yet commenced as of March 27, 2021.

	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	March 27,		March 28,		March 27,			March 28,
	2021		2020		2021			2020
Lease expense	$	9,358	$	7,673	$	18,292		$	14,935

Other information:
Cash payments for operating leases		9,412		7,843		18,353			15,253
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities		9,377		16,114		21,764			21,445
Weighted-average remaining lease term					6.3 years			6.6 years
Weighted-average discount rate						5.3	%		5.1	%

The following table summarizes future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases as of March 27, 2021:

Fiscal Year	Operating Leases
2021 (remaining)	$	17,602
2022		32,382
2023		27,241
2024		21,322
2025		16,904
2026 and thereafter		30,989
Total future minimum lease payments	$	146,440
Less: interest		(22,480	)
Total lease obligations	$	123,960