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Business Combination, Acquisition Related Costs, Price Per Share

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Business Combination, Cash Consideration Per Share of Common Stock

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Business Combination, Merger Agreement, Termination Fee

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 23
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73531572&loc=d3e1043-128460

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Proposed Merger with Cintas Corporation (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Oct. 01, 2016	Sep. 26, 2015	Aug. 15, 2016
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger-related expenses	$ 6,056	$ 0
G&K Services and Cintas Merger
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Termination fee			$ 60,000
Merger-related expenses	6,056
After-tax effect of merger related costs	$ 4,737
After-tax effect of merger related costs (in dollars per share)	$ 0.24
G&K Services \| Class A Common Stock \| G&K Services and Cintas Merger
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger consideration (in dollars per share)			$ 97.50