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.
ST. LOUIS BUTTON CO.
MANUFACTURERS
(union bug)
ST. LOUIS, MO.
National Restaurant Week was a promotional campaign that started in the late 1930s. Its goal was to showcase the variety of foods restaurants offered and their sanitary preparation. A survey on www.newspapers.com showed it lasted until at least 1949. This button, saying May 6-12, matches National Restaurant Week for either 1940 or 1946.
(1940, May 8). Eating out is fun. Fitchburg Sentinel(Fitchburg Massachusetts), p. 2. Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/image/45629060/?terms=national%2Brestaurant%2...
(1946, May). May promotions calendar. Gas Appliance Merchandise(18)4, 40. Retrieved from Google Books