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 and does not record a lease asset or lease liability for such leases.

When implementing Topic 842, the Partnership elected the following practical expedients: (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 under Topic 842 land easements that existed or expired before the Partnership’s 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 15, “Guarantees” for more information.

The Partnership does not have any material lease obligations that were signed, but not yet commenced as of September 25, 2021.

Quantitative information on the Partnership’s lease population for fiscal 2021 is as follows:

	Year Ended			Year Ended
	September 25, 2021			September 26, 2020
Lease expense	$	37,782		$	31,889

Other information:
Cash payments for operating leases		37,919			32,306
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities		40,043			35,817
Weighted-average remaining lease term	6.2 years			6.5 years
Weighted-average discount rate		5.1	%		5.3	%

The following table summarizes future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases as of September 25, 2021:

Fiscal Year	Operating Leases
2022	$	36,726
2023		30,568
2024		24,523
2025		20,297
2026		15,585
2027 and thereafter		24,066
Total future minimum lease payments	$	151,765
Less: interest		(22,242	)
Total lease obligations	$	129,523