The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of JanOne Inc., a Nevada corporation, and its subsidiaries (collectively the “Company” or “JanOne”). The Company had two operating segments for fiscal year 2018 – Recycling and Technology, and the Company had three operating segments for fiscal year 2019 – Biotechnology, Recycling and Technology.

During September 2019, JanOne, through its biotechnology segment, became engaged in developing new and innovative solutions for ending the opioid epidemic ranging from digital technologies to educational advocacy.

ARCA Recycling, Inc. (“ARCA Recycling”), provides turnkey recycling services for electric utility energy efficiency programs. ARCA Canada Inc. provides turnkey recycling services for electric utility energy efficiency programs. Customer Connexx, LLC, provides call center services for electric utility programs.

Through our GeoTraq Inc. (“GeoTraq”) subsidiary, we are engaged in the development, design and, ultimately, we expect the sale of cellular transceiver modules, also known as Mobile IoT modules, and associated wireless services.

All data for common stock, options and warrants have been adjusted to reflect the 1-for-5 reverse stock split (which took effect on April 19, 2019) (the “Reverse Stock Split”) for all periods presented. In addition, all common stock prices, and per share data for all periods presented have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split.

We report on a 52- or 53-week fiscal year. Our 2018 fiscal year (“2018”) ended on December 29, 2018, and our fiscal year (“2019”) ended on December 28, 2019, each fiscal year is 52 weeks in length.

Reincorporation in the State of Nevada

On March 12, 2018, we reincorporated from the State of Minnesota to the State of Nevada (the “Reincorporation”) pursuant to a plan of conversion dated March 12, 2018 (the “Plan of Conversion”). The Reincorporation was accomplished by the filing of (i) articles of conversion (the “Minnesota Articles of Conversion”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota and (ii) articles of conversion (the “Nevada Articles of Conversion”) and articles of incorporation (the “Nevada Articles of Incorporation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada. Pursuant to the Plan of Conversion, the Company also adopted new bylaws (the “Nevada Bylaws”).

The Reincorporation did not affect any of the Company’s material contracts with any third parties, and the Company’s rights and obligations under such material contractual arrangements continue to be rights and obligations of the Company after the Reincorporation. The Reincorporation did not result in any change in headquarters, business, jobs, management, location of any of the offices or facilities, number of employees, assets, liabilities or net worth (other than as a result of the costs incident to the Reincorporation) of the Company.

The Reincorporation changed the par value of the Company’s common shares from no par value to a par value of $0.001 per share of common stock.

Going concern

We acknowledge that we continue to face a challenging competitive environment as we continue to focus on our overall profitability, including managing expenses. We reported a net loss of $11,964 and $5,608 for the fiscal years ended December 28, 2019 and December 29, 2018, respectively. In addition, the Company has as of December 28, 2019 total current assets of $8,839 and total current liabilities $17,573 resulting in a net negative working capital of $8,734.

The Company has available cash balances and funds available under the accounts receivable factoring program with Prestige Capital to provide sufficient liquidity to fund the entity’s operations, the entity’s continued investments in center openings and remodeling activities, for at least the next twelve months. The agreement with Prestige Capital allows the Company to get advance funding of 80% of an unpaid customer’s invoice amount within 2 days and the balance less a fee upon ultimate collection in cash of the invoice. The Company will be able to utilize the available funds under the accounts receivable factoring agreement to provide liquidity, to pursue acquisitions, and other strategic transactions to expand and grow the business to enhance shareholder value. Management also regularly monitors capital market conditions to ensure no other conditions or events exist that may materially affect the Company’s financial conditions and liquidity and the Company may raise additional funds through borrowings or public or private sales of debt or equity securities, if necessary.

Based on the above, management has concluded that at December 28, 2019 the Company is not aware and did not identify any other conditions or events that would cause the Company to not be able to continue business as a going concern for the next twelve months.

Restatement

During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2018, the Company did not disclose the following potential obligation rising from lease guarantees.

As disclosed and as discussed in Note 4: Note Receivable, on December 30, 2017, the Company disposed of its retail appliance segment and sold ApplianceSmart to the Purchaser. In connection with that sale, as of December 29, 2018, the Company had an aggregate amount of future real property lease payments of approximately $5,000, which represented amounts guaranteed or which may be owed under certain lease agreements to third party landlords in which the Company either remains the counterparty, is a guarantor, or has agreed to remain contractually liable under the lease (“ApplianceSmart Leases”). As of December 29, 2018, there were five ApplianceSmart Leases with Company guarantees, one terminating December 31, 2020, April 30, 2021, August 14, 2021, December 31, 2022 and June 30, 2025, respectively.

It could not be determined at December 29, 2018 that the Company would incur any loss related to its contractual liability for a maximum potential amount of future undiscounted lease payments of approximately $5,000. The Company evaluated the fair value of its potential obligation under the guidance of ASC 450: Contingencies and ASC 460: Guarantees. As a result, the Company did not have any accrued amount of liability associated with these future guaranteed lease payments as the fair value of the potential liability was immaterial. The fair value was calculated based on the undiscounted lease payments, a discount rate equivalent to current interest rates associated with the real estate lease and a remote probability weighting.

The ApplianceSmart Leases either have the Company as the contract tenant only, or in the contract reflects a joint tenancy with ApplianceSmart. ApplianceSmart is the occupant of the ApplianceSmart Leases. The Company does not have the right to use the ApplianceSmart lease assets nor is the Company the primary obligor of the lease payments, hence capitalization under ASC 842 was not required. The ApplianceSmart Leases have historically been used by ApplianceSmart for its business operations and the rent and other amounts owed under such leases has been and is being paid by ApplianceSmart historically and in the future.

Any potential amounts paid out for the Company obligations and or guarantees under ApplianceSmart Leases would be recoverable to the extent there were assets available from ApplianceSmart – See Notes 4 and 22. ApplianceSmart Leases are related party transactions. The Company divested itself of the ApplianceSmart Leases and leaseholds with the sale of ApplianceSmart to Purchaser on December 30, 2017.