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Note 5 – Long-Term Debt

Long-term debt consists of the following (in thousands):

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Interest expense for the Company’s debt arrangements, excluding the amortization of debt issuance costs and fees, was $0.4 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $1.1 million and $2.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Capitalized interest was $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively.

As of September 30, 2022, the Company had $1.4 million in standby letters of credit outstanding for certain restaurants and $5.6 million available in its revolving credit facility, subject to certain conditions.

Credit and Guaranty Agreement

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On October 4, 2019, in conjunction with the acquisition of Kona Grill, the Company entered into a credit agreement with Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Credit Agreement”). On August 6, 2021, the Company entered into the Third Amendment to the Credit Agreement to extend the maturity date for both the term loan and revolving credit facility to August 2026. The Credit Agreement provides for a secured revolving credit facility of $12.0 million and a $25.0 million term loan (reduced from $48.0 million). The term loan is payable in quarterly installments of $0.1 million, with the final payment due in August 2026.

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The amended Credit Agreement has several borrowing and interest rate options, including the following: (a) a LIBOR rate (or a comparable successor rate) subject to a 1.00% floor or (b) a base rate equal to the greatest of (i) the prime rate, (ii) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, (iii) the LIBOR rate for a one-month period plus 1.00% or (iv) 4.00%. Loans under the amended Credit Agreement bear interest at a rate per annum using the applicable indices plus an interest rate margin of 5.00% (for LIBOR rate loans) and 4.00%

(for base rate loans). Upon the cessation of LIBOR, the amended Credit Agreement provides for the use of a benchmark replacement as defined in the amended Credit Agreement.

In conjunction with the amended Credit Agreement, the Company made a pre-payment on the loan of $22.2 million and incurred $0.9 million in debt issuance costs. The Company accounted for the amendment as a debt modification with a partial extinguishment and recognized a loss on early debt extinguishment of $0.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and $0.1 million in transaction costs.

The Company’s weighted average interest rate on the borrowings under the amended Credit Agreement as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 was 6.6% and 6.0%, respectively.

The Credit Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and conditions to borrowing including customary affirmative and negative covenants, which include covenants that limit or restrict the Company’s ability to incur indebtedness and other obligations, grant liens to secure obligations, make investments, merge or consolidate, alter the organizational structure of the Company and its subsidiaries, and dispose of assets outside the ordinary course of business, in each case subject to customary exceptions for credit facilities of this size and type.

The Company and certain operating subsidiaries of the Company guarantee the obligations under the amended Credit Agreement, which also are secured by liens on substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.

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As of September 30, 2022, the Company had $0.9 million of debt issuance costs related to the amended Credit Agreement, which were capitalized and are recorded as a direct deduction to long-term debt and $0.5 million in debt issuance costs recorded in Other Assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of September 30, 2022, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants required by the Credit Agreement.