May 3, 2017
VIA EDGAR AND OVERNIGHT MAIL
Ms. Melissa Raminpour
Branch Chief
Office of Transportation and Leisure
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
RE: | Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. (the “Company”) |
Form10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended March 26, 2016
Filed May 25, 2016
Form10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended December 24, 2016
Filed February 2, 2017
Response Letter Dated April 25, 2017
FileNo. 000-19357
Dear Ms. Raminpour:
On behalf of Monro Muffler Brake, Inc., a New York Corporation, please find below the Company’s response to your comment letter dated April 25, 2017. In this letter, references to “we,” “ours,” “us” and the “Company” refer to Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Form10-K or Form10-Q.
For your convenience, the Staff’s comments are reproduced in italics below, followed by our responses.
Form10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended December 24, 2016
Management’s Discussion and Analysis, page 14
We have reviewed your response to prior comment 3. Please expand your discussion in MD&A to disclose that, beginning with fiscal year 2017 your business operations also included both commercial and wholesale operations. Please explain the nature of your primary retail business as compared to those of the commercial and wholesale operations. Please discuss the dollar or percentage impact of these operations on both your consolidated revenue and gross profit margins as it relates to sales mix, in light of your response that sales mix is a distinguishing contributor impacting gross margin. Please also disclose that you have determined that you
operate in one operating segment that is inclusive of the retail, commercial and wholesale operations for the reasons stated in your response as to what the Chief Operating Decision Maker reviews and how assessment of the business and allocation of resources are based on consolidated data.
Response: We have evaluated our discussion in MD&A in Form10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended December 24, 2016 in consideration of the Staff’s comment and the requirements of Item 303(a) of RegulationS-K. We agree with the Staff’s comment and in future Form10-Q and Form10-K filings, beginning with our Form10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended March 25, 2017, we will include in our discussion in MD&A that our business operations include both commercial and wholesale operations and we will explain the nature of our primary retail business as compared to those of the commercial and wholesale operations. We will also include in our discussion in MD&A the dollar or percentage impact of these operations on both our consolidated revenue and gross profit margins as it relates to sales mix.
In consideration of the Staff’s comment and requirements of ASC280-10-50-21.a., we will expand ourBackground section ofNOTE 1 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIESof our annual Form10-K, beginning with Form10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended March 25, 2017, to include that Monro’s operations are organized and managed in one operating segment that is inclusive of the retail, commercial and wholesale operations for the reasons stated in our response to prior comment 3 within our letter dated April 11, 2017.
Please feel free to call the undersigned at585-784-3356 should you have any questions or require additional information.
Sincerely,
/s/ Brian J. D’Ambrosia |
Brian J. D’Ambrosia |
Senior Vice President – Finance, |
Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer |
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CC: | Ms. Beverly A. Singleton – Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ms. Claire Erlanger – Securities and Exchange Commission
Mr. Robert G. Gross – Executive Chairman
Mr. John W. Van Heel – Chief Executive Officer and President
Ms. Maureen E. Mulholland, Esq. – General Counsel
Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. Audit Committee Members
Mr. Alexander McClean, Esq. – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP
Mr. Keith Stolzenburg – PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Mr. Darin Pellegrino – Monro Muffler Brake, Inc.
Mr. Christian M. Snyder – Monro Muffler Brake, Inc.
Ms. Michelle A. Cohen – Monro Muffler Brake, Inc.
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