Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Ongoing Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic

Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

Our fiscal 2020 was the period hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic caused by significant reduction in customer traffic in our clubs and restaurants due to changes in consumer behavior as social distancing practices, dining room closures and other restrictions were mandated or encouraged by federal, state and local governments. In fiscal 2021, our businesses started to recover from the initial effects of the pandemic when government restrictions eased. Stimulus money also flowed to the economy at that time which prompted discretionary spending. In fiscal 2022, several coronavirus variants threatened to bring back tight restrictions. Along with the pandemic, geopolitical and macroeconomic events started to affect the U.S. economy in general, with global inflation and supply chain disruption impacting our businesses the most.

Geopolitical and macroeconomic events are still developing. In the event global inflation leads to a major economic downturn, our business operations and cash flow could be significantly affected.

Valuation of Goodwill, Indefinite-Lived Intangibles and Long-Lived Assets

We considered the COVID-19 pandemic as a triggering event in the assessment of recoverability of the goodwill, indefinite-lived intangibles, and long-lived assets in our clubs and restaurants that are affected. We evaluated forecasted cash flows considering future assumed impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sales. Going forward, because of the illness' anticipated permanence, we will no longer consider it as a triggering event for impairment purposes. Based on the evaluation we conducted during the interim and annual periods since the pandemic emerged, we determined that during the year ended September 30, 2020 our assets were impaired in a total amount of approximately $10.6 million comprised of $7.9 million in goodwill, $2.3 million in SOB licenses, $302,000 in property and equipment, and $104,000 in operating lease right-of-use assets. We recognized an additional $13.6 million of impairment during the year ended September 30, 2021 comprised of $6.3 million in goodwill, $5.3 million in SOB licenses, and $2.0 million in property and equipment, which included one property later reclassified as held for sale. During the year ended September 30, 2022, we recorded total impairment charges of $1.9 million comprised of $566,000 in goodwill, $293,000 in SOB license, and $1.0 million in property and equipment.