Equity-Based Compensation - Performance-Based Stock Options (Details) - USD ($)		9 Months Ended
May 26, 2015	Sep. 30, 2018
Performance and Market-based Restricted Stock Units
Share-based Compensation
Attained by performance - weighted average fair value		$ 17.66
2014 Plan
Share-based Compensation
Awards granted (in shares)		1,500,000
2014 Plan \| Performance-Based Stock Options
Share-based Compensation
Awards granted (in shares)		350,000
Grant date fair value (in dollars per share)	$ 18.37
Option term (in years)	5 years
Revenue threshold for award	$ 600,000

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Minimum qualifying amount of revenues that must be attained during any four-quarter trailing period (as determined by Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors).

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instrument Other than Options, Attained by Performance, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

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The weighted average grant-date fair value of options granted during the reporting period as calculated by applying the disclosed option pricing methodology.

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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