Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 26, 2012

Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit)

The provisions for income taxes were as follows:



	Fiscal Year Ended
	December 26, 2012			December 28, 2011			December 29, 2010
	(In thousands)
Current:
Federal	$	875		$	—		$	—
State, foreign and other	1,148			1,919			1,058
Deferred:
Federal	9,683			2,879			235
State, foreign and other	1,740			344			88
Provision for income taxes before release of valuation allowance	13,446			5,142			1,381
Release of valuation allowance	(661		)	(89,102		)	—
Total provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$	12,785		$	(83,960	)	$	1,381

Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation

The reconciliation of income taxes at the U.S. federal statutory tax rate to our effective tax rate was as follows:



	December 26, 2012		December 28, 2011		December 29, 2010
Statutory provision rate	35	%	35	%	35	%
State, foreign, and other taxes, net of federal income tax benefit	5		6		3
Wage addback (deductions) on income tax credits earned (expired), net	2		(4	)	(9	)
Portion of net operating losses, temporary differences and unused income tax credits resulting from the valuation allowance	—		—		(24	)
General business credits generated	(7	)	(14	)	—
Other	3		(4	)	1
	38	%	19	%	6	%
Release of valuation allowance	(2	)	(315	)	—
Effective tax rate	36	%	(296	)%	6	%

Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

The following table represents the approximate tax effect of each significant type of temporary difference that resulted in deferred income tax assets or liabilities.



	December 26, 2012			December 28, 2011
	(In thousands)
Deferred tax assets:
Self-insurance accruals	$	9,314		$	10,048
Capitalized leases	3,023			3,577
Accrued exit cost	2,158			2,260
Fixed assets	10,707			13,508
Pension, other retirement and compensation plans	14,778			17,145
Other accruals	1,050			—
Future deductions on expired wage based credits	—			1,535
Alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards	12,948			12,409
General business credit carryforwards - state and federal	35,105			35,769
Net operating loss carryforwards - state	13,398			24,587
Net operating loss carryforwards - federal	—			5,371
Total deferred tax assets before valuation allowance	102,481			126,209
Less: valuation allowance	(12,860		)	(22,700		)
Total deferred tax assets	89,621			103,509
Deferred tax liabilities:
Intangible assets	(23,818		)	(24,610		)
Deferred finance costs	(220		)	(2,583		)
Other assets	—			(161		)
Total deferred tax liabilities	(24,038		)	(27,354		)
Net deferred tax asset	$	65,583		$	76,155

Net deferred tax assets are classified as follows:
Current	$	19,807		$	15,519
Noncurrent	45,776			60,636
Total	$	65,583		$	76,155