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The MILFAM Note bears interest at nine percent (9%) per annum, compounded semi-annually, and payable in arrears on a semi-annual basis. At the Company's option, the first two semi-annual interest payments&amp;#160;were paid at eleven percent (11%) in kind in the form of additional promissory notes.&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;The principal obligations under the MILFAM Note are due three (3) years from the effective date of the MILFAM Note. The MILFAM Note Agreement provided for the payment of a finance fee of 3.5% of the principal amount of the MILFAM Note at closing as well as providing a warrant exercisable to purchase up to 1.1 million shares of the Company's common stock at an exercise price per share of $0.01. The warrant would not be exercisable to the extent that doing so resulted in MILFAM and any related parties, in the aggregate, owning more than 19.9% of the Company's common stock. Further, until all of the obligations under the MILFAM Note are paid in full, MILFAM will have the right to participate in any future financing transactions consummated by the Company in an amount up to the greater of (1) the then-outstanding balance of obligations under the MILFAM Note and (2) $4.0 million. The MILFAM Note is guaranteed by the Company's subsidiaries and secured by a lien on all assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. Mr. Lloyd I. Miller, III, is the manager of MILFAM LLC, which is the general partner of MILFAM.&amp;#160; Mr. Miller is a significant shareholder of the Company.&amp;#160; The Company opted to pay the first interest payment at eleven percent (11%) in kind in the form of additional promissory notes, and paid the second interest payment in cash.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;On September 16, 2014, 1.1 million warrants provided under the MILFAM Note Agreement were exercised in order to purchase 1.1 million unregistered shares of the Company's common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, resulting in an aggregate purchase price of $11,000.&amp;#160; The stock warrants were carried at a fair value as of the issuance date of approximately $1.3 million based on the Black-Scholes model using the following assumptions:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; 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Interest will accrue at the rate of nine percent (9%), compounded semi-annually, and will be paid in arrears semi-annually, provided that the Company, at its option,&amp;#160;elected&amp;#160;to pay the first two semi-annual interest payments at a rate of eleven percent (11%) in kind in the form of additional promissory notes. As consideration for the AB Notes, the Company provided a fee of 3.5% of the principal amount of the AB Notes and warrants exercisable to purchase up to an aggregate, initially, of 550,000 shares of the common stock of the Company at an exercise price per share of $.01, provided that the AB Entities would not be permitted to exercise the warrants to the extent such exercise would result in any of the AB Entities and any related parties, in the aggregate, owning more than 19.9% of the Company's common stock. The warrants were exercisable by the AB Entities at any time prior to the third anniversary from the effective date of the AB Notes, in whole or in part, by surrendering the warrants and a form of exercise to the Company.&amp;#160; The Company opted to pay the first interest payment at eleven percent (11%) in kind in the form of additional promissory notes, and intends to pay the second interest payment in cash.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;On October 14, 2014, 550,000 warrants provided under the AB Note Purchase Agreement were exercised by the cashless exercise method, thus 2,895 shares were forfeited to pay for the warrants in lieu of cash. 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text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Volatility&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;63.86&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;%&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;.82&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; 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On February 19, 2015, the Company met the first market condition of $2.00 and vested 25% of the granted 50% of restricted stock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;The value of the shares for the grants made during the three months ended March 31, 2014, based on the closing price of our common stock on the date of the grants, was approximately $1.0 million.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;In the three-month period ended March 30, 2015, we issued 5,729 shares of our restricted common stock to a new member of the Board of Directors under the 2005 Plan and pursuant to the Non-Employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan, pro-rated for the balance of the 2013-2014 term. These shares had immaterial aggregate value in 2015 and vested upon issuance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;During the three-month period ended March 30, 2015, 100,050 shares of previously issued restricted common stock were forfeited. The value of the forfeited shares, based on the closing price of our common stock on the date of the grants, was approximately $0.1 million.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:DisclosureOfCompensationRelatedCostsShareBasedPaymentsTextBlock>
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padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 56%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(net loss in thousands)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 56%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; 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color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Net loss and comprehensive loss&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(4,315&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(3,126&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; 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Actual results could differ from those estimates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;As used in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms "we," "our," "Company" or "Cosi" refer to Cosi, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;The balance sheet at December 29, 2014 has been derived from audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;The results for the three-month periods ended March 30, 2015, and March 31, 2014, are not indicative of the results for the full fiscal year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;This Report should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2014, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;There have been no material changes to our significant accounting policies and estimates from the information provided in Note 1 of our consolidated financial statements included in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2014.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;The financial statements reflect certain reclassifications of prior year amounts to conform to the classification in the current period. 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text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;63.86&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;%&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Risk Free interest rate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;.82&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 78%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Dividend yield (on common stock)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfShareBasedPaymentAwardStockOptionsValuationAssumptionsTableTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of earnings per share-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfEarningsPerShareBasicAndDilutedTableTextBlock contextRef="c20141230to20150330">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;Earnings Per Share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 56%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;For the Three Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 56%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(net loss in thousands)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 56%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;March 30, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;March 31, 2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; width: 1%;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Net loss and comprehensive loss&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(4,315&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(3,126&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Shares:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Weighted average number of shares outstanding&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;37,199,402&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;18,054,580&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 56%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 56%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Basic and diluted loss per share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(0.12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(0.17&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfEarningsPerShareBasicAndDilutedTableTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of Compensation Cost for Share-based Payment Arrangements, Allocation of Share-based Compensation Costs by Plan [Table Text Block]-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfCompensationCostForShareBasedPaymentArrangementsAllocationOfShareBasedCompensationCostsByPlanTableTextBlock contextRef="c20141230to20150330">&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; margin-right: 36pt;"&gt;A summary of non-cash, stock-based compensation expense is as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;For the Three-Months Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;March 30, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2015&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: #000000 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;March 31, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;2014&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: top; width: 76%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: left; margin-left: 7.2pt; text-indent: -7.2pt;"&gt;Restricted stock compensation expense, net of forfeitures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #cceeff;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: right; width: 9%; 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The closing of the 2015 Private Placement Transaction occurred on April 10, 2015.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000;"&gt;Pursuant to that certain Senior Secured Note Purchase Agreement dated April 14, 2014, entered into between the Company and Milfam II L.P. ("Milfam"), Milfam had a right to participate in the 2015 Private Placement Transaction on the same terms as the Purchasers. Lloyd I. Miller, III, is the manager of Milfam LLC, the general partner of Milfam and Milfam LLC is also the investment advisor to the Lloyd I. Miller Trust C.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Mr. Miller is a significant shareholder of the Company through a variety of entities that he manages.&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;On April 24, 2015, Mr. Miller notified the Company that he would not be participating in the 2015 Private Placement Transaction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company relied on the exemption from registration provided for under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 based in part on the representations made by the Purchasers, including the representations with respect to each Purchaser's status as an accredited investor, as such term is defined in Rule 501(a)&amp;#160;under the Securities Act, and the investment intent of each Purchaser with respect to the shares of common stock acquired by such Purchaser pursuant to the 2015 Purchase Agreement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;Concurrently with entering into the 2015 Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Purchasers entered into a Registration Rights Agreement dated April 10, 2015 ("Registration Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to file a registration statement within 30 days, subject to certain delays or extensions of time, covering the shares of the Company's common stock,&amp;#160;acquired by each of the Purchasers, as well as unregistered shares previously acquired by Janus from the Company in the previously-disclosed private placement transaction closed on August 22, 2014.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company has also granted registration rights to other investors in the Company's securities that are substantially equivalent to those granted under the Registration Rights Agreement, including the shares issued in 2014 to each of Milfam and Lloyd I. Miller Trust C, as well as the shares issued on April 1, 2015, to in connection with completion of the previously-announced Hearthstone Merger.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Company had also granted substantially equivalent registration rights to AB Value Partners, L.P., and AB Opportunity Fund LLC (collectively, the "AB Entities"), for shares issued in 2014 upon exercise of $.01 warrants that were acquired by the AB Entities in connection with the previously-disclosed Senior Secured Promissory Notes issued by the Company to the AB Entities on May 20, 2014; however, those shares have been sold under an exemption from registration and will not be covered by the registration rights agreement to be filed by the Company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:SubsequentEventsTextBlock>
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