5. Debt

On September 22, 2006 the Company signed an unsecured loan agreement (“Prior Loan Agreement”), which included a $20,000,000 term loan and a revolving line of credit, with its former lender, Bank of America, N.A. The term portion of the loan required quarterly payments of $714,286 for a period of seven (7) years, maturing on September 22, 2013. Prior to April 21, 2009, the revolving credit portion allowed the Company to borrow up to $12,000,000 with a maturity date of September 22, 2009. The revolving credit portion had a variable quarterly commitment fee ranging from 0.10% to 0.25% based on operating results. Effective April 21, 2009, the Company agreed to a reduction in the amount available on the revolving credit portion to $3,000,000. Effective June 19, 2009, the quarterly commitment fee was fixed at 0.5%. There were no outstanding balances under the revolving credit portion at January 2, 2010. The Prior Loan Agreement was settled in January 2010 when the Company refinanced all of its debt with People's United Bank.

The interest rates on the term and the revolving credit portions of the Prior Loan Agreement varied. Prior to June 19, 2009, the interest rates varied based on the LIBOR rate plus a margin spread of 1.0% to 1.65% for the term portion and 1.0% to 1.6% for the revolving credit portion. The margin rate spread was based on operating results calculated on a rolling-four-quarter basis. Effective June 19, 2009, the margin spread was fixed at a rate of 2.25%. The Company was also able to borrow funds at the lender's prime rate.

On November 13, 2009, the Company amended its Prior Loan Agreement with Bank of America, N.A. The amendment extended the term of the revolving credit portion of the Prior Loan Agreement to May 31, 2010 and permanently reduced the amount available to borrow to $3,000,000. In addition, the margin rate spread was fixed at two and one quarter percent (2.25%); the unused line fee was increased to one half of one percent (0.50%); and the fixed coverage ratio covenant was modified such that it would be calculated on a fiscal year to date basis (instead of a rolling four quarter basis) commencing with the second quarter of Fiscal 2009, provided that if the Company failed to comply with such fixed coverage ratio covenant for any quarter, then such ratio would be re-calculated to add back the amount of permitted dividends declared and actually paid during the period to meet the required 1.1 to 1.0 ratio, so long as the payment of such dividends did not result in the amount of consolidated cash to be below $10,000,000 on the date of determination. The testing period returned to a rolling 4 quarter period effective with the end of the first quarter of 2010. The amendment also required the Company to secure all of the present and future indebtedness of the Company and its subsidiaries with a continuing first priority security interest in all present and future assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries.

On November 2, 2006, the Company entered into an interest rate swap contract with its former lender with an original notional amount of $20,000,000, which was equal to 100% of the outstanding balance of the term loan on that date. The notional amount began decreasing on a quarterly basis on January 2, 2007 following the principal repayment schedule of the term loan. The Company has a fixed interest rate of 5.25% on the swap contract and paid the difference between the fixed rate and LIBOR when LIBOR was below 5.25% and received interest when the LIBOR rate exceeded 5.25%. This remained in effect until December 22, 2009 when the Company terminated the interest rate swap contract at a cost of $967,350, which was accounted for as a charge to interest expense. After terminating the contract, the Company commenced a refinancing plan of all of the Company's outstanding debt.

On January 29, 2010, the Company signed a new secured Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with People's United Bank (“People's”) which included a $5,000,000 term portion and a $10,000,000 revolving credit portion. The term portion of the loan requires quarterly principal payments of $178,571 for a period of seven (7) years, maturing on January 31, 2017. The revolving credit portion has a quarterly commitment fee of one quarter of one percent (0.25%), and a maturity date of January 31, 2012. The proceeds of the term portion along with the Company's available cash were used to retire the remaining portion of the debt with Bank of America, N.A., which on January 29, 2010 totaled $10,714,286.

Subsequent to December 31, 2011, the Company amended the Loan Agreement by taking an additional $5,000,000 term loan (the “2012 Term Loan”). The 2012 Term Loan will require quarterly principal payments of $178,571 for a period of seven (7) years, maturing on January 31, 2019.

Interest on the original term portion of the Loan Agreement is fixed at 4.98%. Interest on the 2012 Term Loan is fixed at 3.90% During Fiscal 2011, the interest rate on the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement varied based on the LIBOR rate or People's Prime rate plus a margin spread of 2.25%, with a floor rate of 4.0%. As part of the amendment signed subsequent to December 31, 2011, this was changed to the LIBOR rate or People's Prime rate plus 2.25%, with a floor of 3.25%; additionally the maturity date was extended to January 31, 2014. During December 2011, the Company used $3,000,000 of the line of credit, the proceeds of which, along with existing cash, were used to fund a discretionary pension payment made in December, 2011. The Company did not utilize the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement during 2010.

Debt consists of:

	2011		2010
Term loan	$	3,750,000	$	4,464,286
Revolving credit loan		3,000,000		-
		6,750,000		4,464,286
Less current portion		3,714,286		714,286
	$	3,035,714	$	3,750,000

The Company paid interest of $240,635 in 2011, $317,269 in 2010 and $1,649,607 in 2009.

Collectively, under the covenants of the Prior Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement, the Company is required to maintain specified financial ratios and amounts. In addition, the Company has restrictions on, among other things, new capital leases, purchases or redemptions of its capital stock, mergers and divestitures, and new borrowing.

As of December 31, 2011, scheduled annual principal maturities of long-term debt for each of the next five years follow:

	Amount Outstanding at December 31, 2011		Amount Borrowed 0n January 25, 2012		Total Scheduled Payments
2012	$	714,286	$	535,714	$	1,250,000
2013		714,286		714,285		1,428,571
2014		892,857		892,857		1,785,714
2015		535,714		535,715		1,071,429
2016		714,286		714,285		1,428,571
Thereafter		178,571		1,607,144		1,785,715
	$	3,750,000	$	5,000,000	$	8,750,000