Segment Reporting (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 05, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Summarized Financial Information Of Reportable Segments

	Quarter						Year-to-date
	July 5, 2015			July 6, 2014			July 5, 2015			July 6, 2014
Revenues by segment:
Jack in the Box restaurant operations	$	263,339		$	259,737		$	884,734		$	869,650
Qdoba restaurant operations	96,167			88,755			301,515			269,794
Consolidated revenues	$	359,506		$	348,492		$	1,186,249		$	1,139,444
Earnings from operations by segment:
Jack in the Box restaurant operations	$	62,355		$	54,413		$	207,523		$	184,333
Qdoba restaurant operations	13,805			9,641			37,265			26,354
Shared services and unallocated costs	(25,582		)	(21,078		)	(84,936		)	(79,846		)
(Losses) gains on the sale of company-operated restaurants	(183		)	24			(4,353		)	2,242
Consolidated earnings from operations	50,395			43,000			155,499			133,083
Interest expense, net	4,504			3,535			13,937			12,388
Consolidated earnings from continuing operations and before income taxes	$	45,891		$	39,465		$	141,562		$	120,695
Total depreciation expense by segment:
Jack in the Box restaurant operations	$	14,737		$	15,110		$	49,051		$	51,379
Qdoba restaurant operations	3,864			3,893			13,179			13,029
Shared services and unallocated costs	1,573			1,688			5,445			5,612
Consolidated depreciation expense	$	20,174		$	20,691		$	67,675		$	70,020

Schedule of Goodwill

The following table provides detail of the change in the balance of goodwill for each of our reportable segments (in thousands):

	Qdoba		Jack in the Box			Total
Balance at September 28, 2014	$	100,597	$	48,477		$	149,074
Disposals	—		(32		)	(32		)
Balance at July 5, 2015	$	100,597	$	48,445		$	149,042