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Credit Agreement
On November 3, 2021, as further amended as described below and as part of the Anthony’s acquisition, the Company joined a credit agreement with a syndicate of commercial banks (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement, which was scheduled to terminate on June 15, 2024, provides the Company with lender financing structured as a $57.8 million term loan and a $4.0 million revolving loan. The terms of the Credit Agreement require the Company to repay the principal of the term loan in quarterly installments of approximately $0.8 million with the balance due at the maturity date. The principal amount of revolving loans is due and payable in full on the maturity date. The loan and revolving line of credit are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets and incurred interest on outstanding amounts of 4.75% until December 31, 2022.
Effective March 9, 2022, certain of the covenants of (i) the Company and Plastic Tripod, Inc., as the borrowers (the "Borrowers"), and (ii) the subsidiary guarantors (the "Guarantors") party to the Credit Agreement were amended (such amendment herein referred to as the “Twelfth Amendment”). Pursuant to the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, the Borrowers and Guarantors agreed to pay incremental deferred interest of 2% per annum, in the event that the obligations under the Credit Agreement were not repaid on or prior to June 15, 2023; provided, however, that if no event of default has occurred and is continuing then (1) no incremental deferred interest will be due if all of the obligations under the Credit Agreement have been paid on or prior to December 31, 2022, and (2) only 50% of the incremental deferred interest will be owed if all of the obligations under the Credit Agreement have been paid from and after January 1, 2023 and on or prior to March 31, 2023.
The Credit Agreement was further amended on December 7, 2022 (such amendment herein referred to as the “Thirteenth Amendment”) by amending certain covenants of the Credit Agreement and extending the maturity date from June 15, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The amendment also provided for periodic increases to the annual rate of interest changing the rate per annum to (1) 5.75% from January 1, 2023 through June 15, 2023; (2) 6.75%per annum from June 16, 2023 through December 31, 2023; (3) 7.25% per annum from January 1, 2024 through June 15, 2024; and (4) 7.75% per annum from and after June 16, 2024 through maturity. In addition, the 2% incremental deferred interest implemented on March 9, 2022 was reduced to 1% beginning January 3, 2023 and will be eliminated at December 31, 2023.
The terms of the Thirteenth Amendment also provided for a change in the timing of paying approximately $0.3 million of deferred interest payments previously scheduled to be paid on June 16, 2023 to be paid monthly from January to June 2023, while deferring the balance of deferred interest amount of approximately $1.3 million from June 15, 2023 to December 31, 2023. The Borrowers and Guarantors also agreed to obtain $5,000,000 in net cash proceeds from (x) a shelf registration and equity issuance by not later than January 2, 2023, or (y) issuance of unsecured subordinated debt by not later than January 30, 2023, referred to as the “Initial New Capital Infusion Covenant”.
Under the terms of the Thirteenth Amendment, certain modifications were made to the accounting definitions in the Credit Agreement to bring such definitions in line with Company practices and needs.
In addition, under the terms of the Thirteenth Amendment, the Borrowers and Guarantors agreed to reset their consolidated senior lease-adjusted leverage ratio and fixed charge coverage ratio as follows:
(a) maintain a quarterly consolidated senior lease-adjusted leverage ratio greater than (i) 7.00to 1.00 as of the end of the fiscal quarter ending on or about December 31, 2022, (ii) 7.00 to 1.00 as of the end of the fiscal quarter ending on or about March 31, 2023, and (iii) 6.50 to 1.00 as of the end of the fiscal quarter ending on or about June 30, 2023 and the end of each fiscal quarter thereafter;
(b) maintain a quarterly minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.10 to 1.00 as of the end of the fiscal quarter ending on or about December 31, 2022 and the end of each fiscal quarter thereafter; and
(c) the liquidity requirement of the Credit Agreement remains unchanged; provided, that in the event the Company has not received by January 2, 2023 at least $5,000,000 in net cash proceeds as a result of shelf registration and equity issuance then the required liquidity amount as of January 2, 2023 is reduced to $9,500,000.
The consolidated senior lease-adjusted leverage ratio, fixed charge coverage ratio and liquidity are computed in accordance with the Credit Agreement.
If upon delivery of the quarterly financial statements, the consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio as of the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company ending after January 2, 2023 was less than 1.15 to 1.00, then Borrowers and Guarantors agreed to engage a consulting firm to help with certain operational activities and other matters as reasonably determined by the lenders; provided, that, if after delivery of the quarterly financial statements, (x) the consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio as of the end of each of the two prior consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company was greater than 1.15 to 1.00, and (y) the consolidated senior lease-adjusted leverage ratio as of the end of each of the two prior consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company was less than the correlative amount of the consolidated senior lease-adjusted leverage ratio required for the financial covenants for such fiscal quarters by 0.25 basis points or more, then retention of the consulting firm shall not be required during the following fiscal quarter.
The terms of the amended Credit Agreement require the Company to repay the principal of the term loan in quarterly installments with the balance due at the maturity date, as follows:
The Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility is a non-interest bearing loan and accordingly was recorded at fair value as part of the Anthony’s acquisition which resulted in a debt discount of approximately $1.3 million which is being amortized over the period of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility. For the years ended January 2, 2023 and December 31, 2021, the Company recorded $0.5 million and $0.1 million, respectively as amortization of the debt discount which is included within interest expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. The Company had $9.2 million outstanding under the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility as of January 2, 2023 included in related party note payable in the consolidated balance sheets.
On February 1, 2023, the Credit Agreement was further amended through the Fourteenth Amendment to amend the Initial New Capital Infusion Covenant to provide that, not later than February 24, 2023, the Company will obtain $5,000,000 of new indebtedness through the Initial New Capital Infusion, and exchange $10,000,000 of existing debt from delayed draw term loan, which was part of the Credit Agreement and provided by a related party and significant stockholder, for $10,000,000 in new junior subordinated secured debt, resulting in the Company holding $15,000,000 in junior subordinated secured debt on terms reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement),including , without limitation, that (1) such indebtedness shall not mature until at least two (2) years after the maturity date of the credit facility of September 30, 2025; (2) no payments of cash interest shall be made on such indebtedness until after the repayment in full of the obligations under the Credit Agreement; and (3) no scheduled or voluntary payments of principal shall be made until after the repayment in full of the obligations under the Credit Agreement.
On February 24, 2023, the Credit Agreement was further amended through Fifteenth Amendment, whereby, the Borrowers and the Guarantors were released from liability with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loan in the amount of $10,000,000 under the Credit Agreement (the “Existing Loan”) in consideration of the continuation and amendment and restatement of the Existing Loan under the Note (as such term is defined below). The Company was in compliance with its financial covenants under the amended Credit Agreement as of January 2, 2023.
On February 24, 2023, the Borrowers entered into the Note with Junior Lender, pursuant to which the Junior Lender continued, amended and restated the Existing Loan of $10,000,000, which is junior subordinated secured indebtedness, and also provided $5,100,000 of new junior subordinated secured indebtedness, to the Borrowers (collectively, the “Junior Indebtedness”), which Junior Indebtedness was incurred outside of the Credit Agreement. See also Part III, Item 13 Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
The Junior Indebtedness, which accrues interest at 4% per annum (i) is secured by a second lien on substantially all of the assets of the Borrowers and the Guarantors pursuant to the terms of the Note and that certain Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated February 24, 2023, by and among the Guarantors and the Junior Lender, (ii) is subject to the terms of that certain Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement dated February 24, 2023, by and between the Administrative Agent and the Junior Lender and acknowledged by the Borrowers and the Guarantors, and (iii) matures on the date that is the second anniversary of the maturity date under the Credit Agreement (the “Junior Maturity Date”) (September 30, 2027, based on the maturity date under the Credit Agreement of September 30, 2025).
Under the terms of the Note, no payments of cash interest or payments of principal shall be due until the Junior Maturity Date, and no voluntary prepayments may be made on the Junior Indebtedness prior to the Junior Maturity Date until after the repayment in full of the obligations under the Credit Agreement.
The loan and revolving line of credit are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets and incur interest on outstanding amounts at the following rates per annum through maturity:
For the years ended January 2, 2023 and December 31, 2021, the Company deferred $0.9 million and $1.0 million respectively of financing costs in connection with Credit Agreement. Amortization expense associated with deferred financing costs, in the amounts of $0.5 million for the year ended January 2, 2023 and $0.1 million, for the year ended December 31, 2021 is included in interest expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
Other Notes Payable
Other notes payable relates to a note payable to an individual, issued in connection with the Company’s acquisition of a franchised restaurant, which requires monthly payments of $9,000 over a seven-year amortization, including 7% interest, with a maturity date of May 1, 2027. The other notes payable relates to an Economic Injury Disaster Loan from the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) and is primarily for one corporate-owned restaurant.
PPP Loans
On May 11, 2020, the Company received loan proceeds in the amount of $2.2 million under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). During the year ended December 31, 2021, all PPP loans amounting to $2.2 million were forgiven by the SBA. The SBA may undertake a review of a loan of any size during the six‐year period following forgiveness of the loan; however, loans in excess of $2 million are subject to a mandatory audit. The audit will include the loan forgiveness application, as well as whether the Company met the eligibility requirements of the PPP and received the proper loan amount. The timing and outcome of any SBA review is not known.
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