La Residence will not be serving alcohol for the rest of 2015.

The Chapel Hill restaurant will lose its alcohol permits for the next two weeks as part of an offer in compromise with the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.

The restaurant was investigated for serving an underage group of patrons in July that included 20-year-old UNC student Chandler Kania the night that Kania allegedly drove his 2005 Jeep the wrong way for at least six miles before crashing head-on into another vehicle, killing three of the four passengers.

ABC spokesperson Agnes Stevens confirmed that La Res did pay a $5,000 fine as part of the offer in compromise; that’s the maximum fine that the ABC Commission can impose on a business.

ABC board chair James Gardner said at a press conference in November that he would like the General Assembly to look at increasing the fine businesses would incur.

“I think they clearly understand that any bar operation can make that back, basically, over a weekend,” he said. “Yes, it will be something I hope they would look at.”

The board rejected an initial offer in compromise for La Res that included the $5,000 fine but no suspension of alcohol permits.

La Res will be able to serve alcohol once again beginning at seven o’clock in the morning on January 1.

Another Chapel Hill bar, He’s Not Here, was also investigated in connection with the Kania wrong-way crash. Ownership rejected an offer in compromise that included handing over all of the establishment’s alcohol permits. That case will be heard before an administrative law judge in late January. If the judge rules against He’s Not Here, the owners would not be able to reapply for permits or operated another establishment with alcohol permits for three years, according to Stevens.

Kania is scheduled to appear in court on January 12 to face three counts of second-degree murder, among other charges, related to the crash.

He is currently under house arrest at his parent’s home in Asheboro after posting a $1 million bond.

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