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Leases

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Leases
6 Months Ended
Jun. 27, 2021
Leases [Abstract]  
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The Company determines if a contract contains a lease at inception. The Company's material long-term operating lease agreements are for the land and buildings for our restaurants as well as our corporate offices. The lease term begins on the date that the Company takes possession under the lease, including the pre-opening period during construction, when in many cases the Company is not making rent payments. The initial lease terms range from 10 years to 15 years, most of which include renewal options totaling 10 to 15 years. The lease term is generally the minimum of the noncancelable period or the lease term including renewal options which are reasonably certain of being exercised up to a term of approximately 20 years.
Operating lease assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date for material leases with a term of greater than 12 months. Operating lease liabilities represent the present value of future minimum lease payments. Since our leases do not provide an implicit rate, our operating lease liabilities are calculated using the Company's secured incremental borrowing rate at lease commencement. We estimate this rate based on prevailing financial market conditions, comparable companies, credit analysis and management judgment. Minimum lease payments include only fixed lease components of the agreement, as well as variable rate payments that depend on an index, initially measured using the index at the lease commencement date.
Operating lease assets represent our right to use an underlying asset and are based upon the operating lease liabilities adjusted for prepaid or accrued lease payments, initial direct costs and lease incentives. Lease incentives are recognized when construction milestones are met and reduce our operating lease asset. They are amortized through the operating lease assets as reductions of rent expense over the lease term.
Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Variable lease payments that do not depend on a rate or index, escalation in the index subsequent to the initial measurement, payments associated with non-lease components such as common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance, and short-term lease payments (leases with a term with 12 months or less) are expensed as incurred. Certain of the Company’s operating leases contain clauses that provide for contingent rent based on a percentage of sales greater than certain specified target amounts. These variable payments are expensed when the achievement of the specified target that triggers the contingent rent is considered probable. As of June 27, 2021, all of the Company's leases were operating.
Components of operating lease costs are included in occupancy, closed restaurant costs, restaurant pre-opening, general and administrative expense and property and equipment, net:
Thirteen Weeks Ended Twenty-Six Weeks Ended
Lease cost June 27, 2021 June 28, 2020 June 27, 2021 June 28, 2020
Operating lease cost (a)
$ 6,489  $ 6,634  $ 12,874  $ 13,228 
Variable lease cost 303  95  539  218 
$ 6,792  $ 6,729  $ 13,413  $ 13,446 
(a) Includes short-term operating lease costs which are immaterial.
Supplemental cash flow disclosures for the twenty-six weeks ended June 27, 2021 and June 28, 2020, respectively:
Twenty-Six Weeks Ended
June 27, 2021 June 28, 2020
Cash paid for operating lease liabilities $ 14,503  $ 8,517 
Operating lease assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities (a) 3,858  (1,351)
(a) The twenty-six weeks ended June 27, 2021 includes a $6.9 million increase mainly due to extending remaining lives of certain leases partially offset by a $3.1 million decrease to operating lease assets and liabilities related to the termination of two closed restaurant leases. The twenty-six weeks ended June 28, 2020 includes a $7.0 million reduction to the operating lease assets and liabilities as a result of shortening the remaining life of certain leases, partially offset by a $5.7 million increase related to new lease commencements.
The Company recorded no additional deferred lease incentives during the twenty-six weeks ended June 27, 2021 and $0.2 million during the twenty-six weeks ended June 28, 2020.
Supplemental balance sheet and other lease disclosures:
Operating leases Classification June 27, 2021 December 27, 2020
Right-of-use assets Operating lease assets $ 158,162  $ 159,156 
Deferred rent payments Operating lease liability 1,302  2,169 
Current lease liabilities Operating lease liability 12,415  12,397 
13,717  14,566 
Deferred rent payments Operating lease liability, less current portion 303  746 
Non-current lease liabilities Operating lease liability, less current portion 203,360  206,855 
203,663  207,601 
Total lease liabilities $ 217,380  $ 222,167 
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years) 13.4 13.8
Weighted average discount rate 7.8  % 7.9  %
Future minimum rent payments for our operating leases for the next five years as of June 27, 2021 are as follows:
Fiscal year ending:
Remainder of 2021 $ 15,216 
2022 29,193 
2023 28,730 
2024 27,476 
2025 27,026 
Thereafter 221,862 
Total minimum lease payments 349,503 
Less: imputed interest 132,123 
Present value of lease liabilities $ 217,380 
As of June 27, 2021, operating lease payments exclude approximately $2.1 million of legally binding minimum lease payments for leases signed but which we have not yet taken possession.