Credit Agreement - Additional Information (Detail) - Credit Agreement [Member] - Revolving Credit Facility [Member] - BMO Harris Bank N.A. ("BMO Harris") [Member] - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 27, 2018
Line Of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Revolving credit facility		$ 50,000,000.0
Revolving credit facility maturity date	Jan. 20, 2022
Number of days for pre-payment notice	3 days
Number of days for termination notice	5 days
Minimum cash under covenant term	$ 50,000,000.0
Percentage of cash and marketable securities deposited with bank collateral for securitization	100.00%
Credit facility borrowings	$ 0

Credit agreement minimum cash balance amount.

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Percentage of cash and marketable securities deposited with bank collateral for securitization.

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Prepayment notice period.

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Termination notice period.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Date the credit facility terminates, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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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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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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