"Since 1995, Biscuits and Blues has served up home-style Southern cooking, stiff drinks, and live jazz and blues from its spot at Mason and Geary Streets, making it one of the last blues bars standing in the city. That all came to an end when a pipe ferrying sewage (of the worst possible kind) from a next door Jack in the Box burst last April, closing the spot to clean up the filth left behind. Since then, the family-owned small business has been engaged in a battle with the chain, which says that it isn’t responsible for the mess its waste left behind. According to American Blues Scene, operations at Biscuits and Blues have been interrupted for years by leaks in its ceiling — drips from a pipe from a neighboring Jack in the Box franchise owned by Saeed Khan. The leak didn’t harm Jack in the Box’s operations, and the restaurant has remained open — with a 24-hour schedule, in fact — since the befouling incident. Biscuits and Blues wasn’t so lucky, however: As the pipes have continued leaking, the club has remained closed. Even worse, owner Steven Suen tells the Chron, when workers tried to clean up the mess inside Biscuits and Blues’s ceiling, they discovered that the longstanding leaks had caused the area around the pipes to mold. That’s why, to push for some sort of resolution, Suen took Khan and Jack to court last July, asking for an injunction that would shut Jack in the Box down until the repairs were made." - Eve Batey
