Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

The Company occupies offices and uses certain equipment under various operating lease arrangements. The Company has no finance leases. The leases have remaining terms of 1 to 15 years, some of which include options to extend lease terms or options to terminate current lease terms at certain times, subject to notice requirements set out in the lease agreement. Payments under certain of the lease agreements may be subject to adjustment based on a consumer price index or other inflationary indices. The lease liability for such lease agreements as of the adoption date, was based on fixed payments as of the adoption date. Any adjustments to these payments based on the related indices will be recorded to expense as incurred. Leases with an expected term of 12 months or less are not capitalized. Lease expense under such leases is recorded straight line over the life of the lease. The Company capitalizes non-lease components for equipment leases, but expenses non-lease components as incurred for real estate leases.

The rent expense under such arrangements and similar arrangements that do not qualify as leases under ASU 2016-02, net of sublease income amounted to $89.5 million, $93.9 million and $88.2 million, respectively, for each of the years ended 2023, 2022 and 2021, and was not material to the Company’s financial statements nor were expenses related to short term leases (expected term less than twelve months) or variable lease payments during those same periods.

All leases expire prior to 2039. Real estate taxes, insurance and maintenance expenses are generally obligations of the Company. Operating leases often contain renewal options. In those locations in which the Company continues to operate, management expects that, in the normal course of business, leases that expire will be renewed or replaced by leases on other properties.

Information related to the Company's leases for the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 25, 2022 is as follows:


	Year Ended			Year Ended		Year Ended
(In millions)	December 31, 2023			December 25, 2022		December 26, 2021
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	48.6		52.4		53.4
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases net of lease modifications	$	87.8		5.8		28.4

Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term:
Operating leases	7.1 years			4.4 years		5.6 years
Weighted Average Discount Rate:
Operating leases	3.8		%	3.4	%	3.0	%

The following is a reconciliation of future undiscounted cash flows to the operating liabilities, and the related right of use assets, included in our Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2023:


	Year Ended
(In millions)	December 31, 2023
2024	$	45.2
2025	40.3
2026	33.0
2027	22.8
2028	18.2
2029 and thereafter	52.5
Total future lease payments	212.0
Less imputed interest	60.4
Present value of future operating lease payments	151.6
Less current portion of operating lease liabilities (1)	30.5
Non-current operating lease liability (2)	121.1
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net (3)	$	126.7

(1) Included in Accrued liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets
(2) Included in Other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets
(3) Included in Property, plant and equipment on the Consolidated Balance Sheets