National Restaurant Week

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Text on Button NATIONAL RESTAURANT WEEK MAY 6 to 12 GOOD FOOD IS GOOD HEALTH
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Blue text on illustration of white flag on a red and white striped background.  Blue text on white outer border and red border on edge of button.

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ST. LOUIS BUTTON CO.
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ST. LOUIS, MO.

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National Restaurant Week was a promotional campaign that began in the late 1930s and lasted through 1949. Its goal was to showcase the variety of foods restaurants offered and their sanitary preparation. May 6-12 corresponds to National Restaurant Week for either 1940 or 1946.

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(1940, May 8). Eating out is fun. Fitchburg Sentinel(Fitchburg Massachusetts), p. 2. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/image/45629060/?terms=national%2Brestaurant%…

(1946, May). May promotions calendar. Gas Appliance Merchandise(18)4, 40. Retrieved from Google Books

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