Percentage of annual bonus settled with fully vested restricted stock unit awards

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Share based compensation arrangements by share based payment award options expiration term.

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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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Stock-Based Compensation - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jun. 28, 2019	Jun. 29, 2018	Jun. 28, 2019	Jun. 29, 2018
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Options Expiration Term			10 years
Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of annual bonus settled with fully vested restricted stock unit awards			40.00%
Vested Restricted Stock Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation, holding period			4 years
Stock based compensation expense	$ 2,325,000	$ 2,168,000	$ 4,393,000	$ 4,400,000
Unvested Restricted Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation, vesting period			4 years
Unvested Restricted Stock Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation expense	1,535,000	1,460,000	$ 5,065,000	4,968,000
Unvested Restricted Stock Awards \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Recipient age to expense award on grant date			59 years 6 months
Employee Stock Option
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock based compensation, vesting period			4 years
Stock based compensation expense	$ 150,000	$ 116,000	$ 283,000	$ 665,000
Vesting percentage of stock options granted per year			25.00%
Unvested Stock Options [Member] \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Recipient age to expense award on grant date			59 years 6 months