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Payments Under Long Term Incentive Plan Based on Total Shareholder Return During Year

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Term

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Percentage of Target Number of Performance Awards Granted

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Stock-Based Awards - Other Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 25, 2016	Dec. 25, 2011
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	$ 13.0	$ 14.8	$ 12.4
Payments under long term incentive plan based on total shareholder return during year	$ 3.0	$ 3.0	$ 4.0
Length of performance measurement period for long-term incentive compensation (in years)	3 years
Unrecognized compensation expense related to the unvested portion of our stock-based awards	$ 13.0
Weighted average years to be recognized over	1 year 5 months 12 days
Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (shares)	0	0	0
2010 Incentive Plan [Member] \| Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award term	10 years
Vesting period	3 years
2004 Directors' Plan [Member] \| Non-Employee Director Stock Options [Member] \| Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award term				10 years
Vesting period				1 year
Granted (shares)	0	0	0
Minimum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of target number of performance awards granted	0.00%
Maximum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of target number of performance awards granted	200.00%