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Guilty Verdict for Leona’s Waitress; Stone Brewery Comes to Town

• A waitress has been convicted of the 2006 murder of her manager at the Hyde Park Leona’s. [Fox Chicago]

• The Green City Market has partnered with Slow Food Chicago to host an event in which kids write to their legislators to urge them to improve school lunch quality. [Chicagoist]

• The owner of Uptown’s Holiday Club has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for tax evasion. [CBS]

• California-based Stone Brewery is bringing its beers to Chicago starting in April. [Chicagoist]

• Tip pools are perfectly legal as long as a restaurant pays more than the minimum wage, ruled a federal appeals court yesterday. [KTVZ via Eater]

• The Canadian women’s ice hockey team might get in trouble for swilling champagne and beer on the ice after winning a gold medal. [NYT]

• Munich’s starkbier season (or strong beer fest) is a less touristy alternative to Oktoberfest. [WSJ]

• North Carolina’s Kampai Japanese Steak & Seafood House banned a regular for being a bad tipper. [Eater]

Guilty Verdict for Leona’s Waitress; Stone Brewery Comes to Town