Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Jun. 28, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Basis of Presentation

Note 1.  Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Good Times Restaurants Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiaries as well as six partnerships in which the Company is the controlling partner. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The Company operates, and licenses full-service restaurants under the brand Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar that are primarily located in Colorado and in the Southeast region of the United States.

The Company operates and franchises drive-thru fast food hamburger restaurants under the brand Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, all of which are located in Colorado and Wyoming.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices of the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all of the normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of June 28, 2022 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the three fiscal quarters ended June 28, 2022 and June 29, 2021. Operating results for the three fiscal quarters ended June 28, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending September 27, 2022. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 28, 2021 is derived from the audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles. As a result, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2021.

Fiscal Year – The Company’s fiscal year is a 52/53-week year ending on the last Tuesday of September. In a 52-week fiscal year, each of the Company’s quarterly periods consist of 13 weeks. The additional week in a 53-week fiscal year is added to the first quarter, making such quarter consist of 14 weeks. The quarters ended June 28, 2022 and June 29, 2021 each consisted of 13 weeks. The year-to-date periods ended June 28, 2022 and June 29, 2021 each consisted of 39 weeks.

Advertising Costs – We utilize Advertising Funds to administer certain advertising programs for both the Bad Daddy’s and Good Times brands that benefit both us and our franchisees.   We and our franchisees are required to contribute a percentage of gross sales to the fund.  The contributions to these funds are designated and segregated for advertising. We consolidate the Advertising Funds into our financial statements whereby contributions from franchisees, when received, are recorded and included as a component of franchise revenues.  We recognize costs associated with the advertising funds based upon the same expense recognition principles we apply to other expenses. Contributions to the Advertising Funds from our franchisees were $204,000 and $205,000 for the three quarters ended June 28, 2022 and June 29, 2021, respectively and are included in franchise revenues.

Receivables – Our receivables typically consist of royalties and other fees due to us from independent franchisees of our brands as well as product rebates and other incentives due to us under agreements with our food and beverage vendors, amounts receivable from our delivery partners, and amounts receivable from Tivoli Brewing Company in connection with our partnership where we operate the kitchen at their brewery taproom.

COVID-19

Currently all of our Bad Daddy’s and Good Times restaurants are operating without COVID-19 related government restrictions or mask mandates. However, the second-and third-order effects from the pandemic have had a lingering impact on our restaurant operations for the three quarters ended June 28, 2022 including disruptions and other impacts to the supply chain and labor markets, and varying changes in consumer behavior. During portions of the month of November 2020 through early January 2021, all of the Company’s Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar restaurants in Colorado were open only for limited outdoor dining, delivery and carry-out service, with indoor dining rooms closed by government orders. Beginning in early January 2021, we began to re-open Colorado dining rooms at Bad Daddy’s, with limited occupancy, as local regulations allowed. Our dining rooms in all other states in which Bad Daddy’s has operations were open during this time. Although certain dining rooms were open, all were operating at some reduction of capacity, whether driven by explicit capacity reductions under government orders, or due to social distancing protocols that are either mandated by the same government orders, or which we abide by as under our own internal protocols designed to maintain a safe foodservice environment, both for our employees and for our customers.

Our operating results substantially depend upon our ability to drive traffic to our restaurants, and for our Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar restaurants, to serve guests in our dining rooms. We cannot currently predict the continued impact of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, including any mutations of the virus and additional variants; neither are we able to predict how the pandemic will evolve nor how the long-lived impacts on supply chain, labor market, and customer behavior will evolve. Should dining room closures or mask mandates reoccur, our business could be adversely affected. Even without government orders, customers may choose to reduce or eliminate in-restaurant dining if there are increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, or deaths.

Additionally, in connection with spread of COVID-19, there have been disruptions in various food supply chains in the United States. Our operating results substantially depend upon our ability to obtain sufficient quantities of products such as beef, bacon, packaging and other products used in the production of menu items for our guests. Ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic could result in product shortages and in-turn could require us to serve a limited menu, restrict number of items purchased per guest, or close some or all of our restaurants for an indeterminate period of time. The long-lived, residual impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and its evolution could result in reduced revenue and cash flow and could affect our assessments of impairment of intangible assets, long-lived assets, or goodwill.

War in Ukraine

Although we conduct all of our restaurant operations within the USA, worldwide product supply chains have been impacted by the war in Ukraine. Specifically sunflower oil and wheat, which are fungible commodities, are used as ingredients in our raw materials and purchased by our suppliers, have significant supplies that typically originate in Ukraine. The lack of availability of supplies of such products may impact the availability and supplier pricing for products purchased by us for use in our business, which could result in higher food and packaging costs or reduced revenues.