Related Party | 4. RELATED PARTY The Jacmar Companies and their affiliates (collectively referred to herein as “Jacmar”) is one of our shareholders and James Dal Pozzo, the Chief Executive Officer of Jacmar, is a member of our Board of Directors. Jacmar, through its affiliation with Distribution Market Advantage (“DMA”), a consortium of large, regional food distributors located throughout the United States, is currently our largest supplier of food, beverage, paper products and supplies. In 2006, we began using DMA to deliver the majority of our food products to our restaurants. In July 2017, after conducting a market evaluation, we entered into a new five-year agreement with DMA. The new agreement expires in June 2022. Jacmar services our restaurants in California and Nevada, while other DMA distributors service our restaurants in all other states. Under the terms of our agreement with DMA, Jacmar is required to sell products to us at the same prices as the other DMA distributors. Jacmar does not provide us with any produce, liquor, wine or beer products, all of which are provided by other third party vendors and are included in “Cost of sales” on the Consolidated Statements of Income. The cost of food, beverage, paper products and supplies provided by Jacmar included within cost of sales and occupancy and operating expenses consisted of the following (in thousands): For the Thirteen Weeks Ended For the Twenty-Six Weeks Ended July 4, 2017 June 28, 2016 July 4, 2017 June 28, 2016 Cost of sales: Third party suppliers $ 47,705 68.6 % $ 41,517 66.4 % $ 93,023 69.0 % $ 82,038 66.6 % Jacmar 21,812 31.4 21,052 33.6 41,889 31.0 41,171 33.4 Total cost of sales $ 69,517 100.0 % $ 62,569 100.0 % $ 134,912 100.0 % $ 123,209 100.0 % Occupancy and operating: Third party suppliers $ 52,562 95.8 % $ 47,896 95.5 % $ 104,273 95.8 % $ 94,843 95.6 % Jacmar 2,310 4.2 2,248 4.5 4,543 4.2 4,374 4.4 Total occupancy and operating $ 54,872 100.0 % $ 50,144 100.0 % $ 108,816 100.0 % $ 99,217 100.0 % The amounts included in trade payables related to Jacmar consisted of the following (in thousands): July 4, 2017 January 3, 2017 Third party suppliers $ 20,290 $ 25,363 Jacmar 6,247 5,782 Total accounts payable $ 26,537 $ 31,145 |