Significant Accounting Policies (Policies) | 12 Months Ended |
Feb. 03, 2024 |
Accounting Policies [Abstract] | |
Consolidation, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Principles of Consolidation The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts are eliminated in consolidation. |
Fiscal Period, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Fiscal Year The Company operates on a 52 53 January 31. 2023 53 February 3, 2024 2022 52 January 28, 2023 |
Cash and Cash Equivalents, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash Cas three 10 third The majority of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents exceed federal deposit insurance limits. The Company has not not |
Inventory, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Inventories Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, with cost determined on an average-cost basis. Inventory includes supplies of $ million and $ million as of February 3, 2024 and January 28, 2023 , respectively. A reserve for estimated shortage is accrued throughout the year based on detailed historical averages. The inventory reserve was $ million as of both February 3, 2024 January 28, 2023 |
Receivable [Policy Text Block] | Receivables Receivables 2023, No. 2016 13, 326 |
Property, Plant and Equipment, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Property and Equipment Property and equipment consist of leasehold improvements, furniture and fixtures, computer equipment and software, building and land and are stated at cost. Leasehold improvements are depreciated using the straight-line method over the shorter of the useful life of the assets or the life of the lease ranging from one ten three seven three five |
Lessee, Leases [Policy Text Block] | Leases The majority of the Company's leases relate to retail stores, corporate offices, and storage locations. For leases with terms greater than 12 five ten not may not The Company's leases typically contain rent escalations over the lease term and the Company recognizes expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term. T he Company recognizes the related rental expense on a straight-line basis and records the difference between the recognized rental expense and amounts payable under the lease as part of the lease right-of-use asset. may The Company has elected the practical expedient allowed by the standard to account for all fixed consideration in a lease as a single lease compone nt. Therefore, the lease payments used to measure the lease liability for these leases include fixed minimum rentals along with fixed operating costs such as common area maintenance and utilities. Most of the Company’s leases do not |
Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Long-lived Assets Whenever facts and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of a long-lived asset (asset group) and right-of-use operating lease assets may not not An impairment charge is recognized to the extent the carrying value exceeded the fair value of the asset (asset group). The Company estimates fair values of these long-lived assets based on its discounted future cash flow analysis for the remaining useful life of the asset or its market rent assessment. An individual asset within an asset group is not two 2023 2022 for long-lived assets. The estimates, all of which are considered Level 3 |
Other Assets [Policy Text Block] | Other Assets, net Other assets consist primarily of the non-current portion of prepaid income taxes and deferred costs related to franchise agreemen ts, financing agreements, and capitalized film production costs. no second |
Entertainment Production Costs [Policy Text Block] | Entertainment Production Costs Costs of producing entertainment assets, which include direct costs, production overhead and development costs, are capitalized when incurred and are stated at the lower of cost, less accumulated amortization, or fair value. For film related costs, the Company expects assets to be monetized individually and are amortized using the individual film-forecast-computation method which amortizes such costs in the same ratio that current period actual revenue bears to the estimated remaining unrecognized total revenues (ultimate revenue). Ultimate revenue includes estimates over a period not ten Costs of entertainment productions are subject to recoverability assessments, whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the fair value of the film may 3 February 3, 2024 and January 28, 2023 , the Company had net capitalized entertainment production costs of $ million and $ million, respectively. The February 3, 2024 balance for entertainment production costs is comprised of unamortized, released assets, and several in-development entertainment projects. The main purpose of the Company's production assets is to drive consumer engagement with its own intellectual property, similar to a marketing campaign. As such, the amortization of production assets and any related impairment charges are recorded as advertising expenses with the Selling, general, and administrative line within the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income and includes this expense in the financial information of the Commercial reportable segment presented in Note 15 November 2023, 2023 February 3, 2024 , the Company performed a recoverability assessment of the Glisten and the Merry Mission assets and determined there were indicators of impairment. A discounted cash flow analysis was used to estimate the fair value of the asset and determined the carry value of the production asset was greater than its fair value. As a result, the Company recorded $0.6 million in film asset impairment. The Company recorded a total of $2.4 million in film costs amortization in fiscal 2023 2022. |
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Policy Text Block] | Revenue See Note 3 |
Cost of Goods and Service [Policy Text Block] | Cost of Merchandise Sold Cost of merchandise sold - retail includes the cost of the merchandise, including royalties paid to licensors of third third |
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses Selling, general, and administrative expenses include store payroll and related benefits, advertising, credit card fees, store supplies and store closing costs, as well as central office management payroll and related benefits, travel, information systems, accounting, insurance, legal, and public relations costs. It also includes depreciation and amortization of central office leasehold improvements, furniture, fixtures, and equipment. Further, it includes store preopening expenses which represent costs incurred prior to store openings, remodels and relocations including certain store set-up, labor and hiring costs, rental charges, payroll, government grants, marketing, travel and relocation costs and recoveries. |
Advertising Cost [Policy Text Block] | Advertising The costs of advertising and marketing programs are charged to operations in the first million and $ million for fiscal years 2023 2022 |
Income Tax, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Income Taxes Income taxes are accounted for using a balance sheet approach known as the liability method. The liability method accounts for deferred income taxes by applying the rate, based on enacted tax law, that will be in effect in the period in which the temporary differences between the book basis and the tax basis of assets and liabilities reverse or are settled. Deferred taxes are reported on a jurisdictional basis. Tax positions are reviewed at least quarterly and adjusted as new information becomes available. The recoverability of deferred tax assets is evaluated by assessing the adequacy of future expected taxable income from all sources, including reversal of taxable temporary differences, forecasted operating earnings and available tax planning strategies. These estimates of future taxable income inherently require significant judgment. To the extent it is considered more likely than not not The Company assesses its total liability for uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis. The Company recognizes estimated interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. See Note 8—"Income |
Earnings Per Share, Policy [Policy Text Block] | I ncome Per Share Basic income per share is dete rmined by dividing net income allocated to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted income per share reflects the potential dilution that could occur if options to issue common stock were exercised. In periods in which the inclusion of such instruments is anti-dilutive, the effect of such securities is not |
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Policy Text Block] | Stock-Based Compensation The Company has share-based compensation plans covering certain management groups and its Board of Directors. The Company accounts for share-based payments utilizing the fair value recognition provisions of ASC 718 12 |
Comprehensive Income, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Comprehensive Income Comprehensive income is comprised of net income and foreign currency translation adjustments. |
Deferred Charges, Policy [Policy Text Block] | D eferred Compensation Plan The Company maintains a Deferred Compensation Plan for the benefit of certain management employees. The investment funds offered to participants generally correspond to the funds offered in the Company’s 401 1 February 3, 2024 million are presented in other assets, net and other liabilities in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of January 28, 2023 , the current portions of the assets and related liabilities of $0.1 million are presented in prepaid expenses and other current assets and accrued expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets, and the non-current portions of the assets and the related liabilities of $ million are presented in other assets, net and other liabilities in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets. |
Fair Value of Financial Instruments, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Fair Value of Financial Instruments For purposes of financial reporting, management has determined that the fair value of financial instruments, including cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, receivables, short term investments, accounts payable and accrued expenses, approximates book value at February 3, 2024 January 28, 2023 |
Use of Estimates, Policy [Policy Text Block] | Use of Estimates The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires management of the Company to make a number of estimates and assumptions relating to the reported amount of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The assumptions used by management in future estimates could change significantly due to changes in circumstances, including, but not may |
Sales Tax Policy [Policy Text Block] | Sales Tax Policy The Company’s revenues in the consolidated statement of operations are net of sales taxes. |
Foreign Currency Transactions and Translations Policy [Policy Text Block] | Foreign Currency Assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign operations with functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated at the exchange rate in effect at the balance sheet date, while revenues and expenses are translated at average rates prevailing during the year. Translation adjustments are reported in accumulated other comprehensive income, a separate component of stockholders’ equity. Gains and losses resulting from foreign exchange transactions, including the impact of the re-measurement of the Company’s balance sheet, are recorded as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses. The Company recorded a loss of $0.1 million and $ million related to foreign currency in fiscal 2023 2022 |
New Accounting Pronouncements, Policy [Policy Text Block] | R ecent Accounting Pronouncements – Adopted in the current year At the beginning of fiscal 2023, No. 2016 13 , “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326 $0.8 R ecent Accounting Pronouncements – Pending adoption In November 2023, No. 2023 07 280 December 15, 2023, December 15, 2024. In December 2023, No. 2023 09 740 December 15, 2024 |