Segment Information (Details Textual)	6 Months Ended
Sep. 29, 2019 Segment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments (segments)	3
Intersegment sales	0
Number of operating segments aggregated (segments)	0
Number of customer representing 10 percent or more of revenue (customers)	0
Quarterly Financial Information, Segment Reporting, Segment Assets, Material Change	0

Number of operating segments aggregated.

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A description of the basis of accounting for transactions between reportable segments.

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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Description of change in total assets when there has been a material change from the amount disclosed in the last annual report.

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Disclosure of the extent of enterprise reliance on its major customers. For example, includes revenues from transactions with a single external customer amounting to 10 percent or more of the entity's revenues, the total amount of revenues from each such customer, and the identity of the segment or segments reporting the revenues. A group of entities that the entity knows to be under common control generally will be considered a single customer for inclusion in this item. The federal government, a state government, a local government (for example, a county or municipality), or a foreign government each will generally be considered as a single customer for inclusion in this item.

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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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