HR 1566 Summary

• Recognizes the Workingman's Friend restaurant in Indianapolis on its 100-year anniversary, having opened on January 25, 1918

• Restaurant was founded by Macedonian immigrant Louis Stamatkin at age 19 to serve local railroad workers, with support from fellow Macedonian immigrants

• Originally named Belmont Lunch until a 1937 newspaper advertisement referencing "Louie, the Working Man's Friend" prompted the name change

• After Louis Stamatkin's death at age 46, his sons Carl and Earl expanded the restaurant significantly until a disagreement led to Earl's retirement in 1968

• Indiana House of Representatives congratulates the Workingman's Friend for 100 years of service and directs the Principal Clerk to transmit a copy of the resolution to current owner Becky Stamatkin, Louis's granddaughter