Check your lease agreement on repair requirements. I am not 100% sure on who handles it for business leasing but HUDs usually quickly get involved with housing issues like this so I assume there is a dept that would be concerned here. Whatever local department it is would not be happy about a landlord preventing a business from safely operating, thus costing tax dollars if eventually you are shut down due to health code violations. Maybe if you have to escalate, keep that in your back pocket as you can sue for cost of lost income while being shut down due to the landlords negligence. Keep a paper trail of these communications because I can’t see sewer backing up into a restaurant on a regular basis being a sustainable business practice.
Check your lease agreement on repair requirements. I am not 100% sure on who handles it for business leasing but HUDs usually quickly get involved with housing issues like this so I assume there is a dept that would be concerned here. Whatever local department it is would not be happy about a landlord preventing a business from safely operating, thus costing tax dollars if eventually you are shut down due to health code violations. Maybe if you have to escalate, keep that in your back pocket as you can sue for cost of lost income while being shut down due to the landlords negligence. Keep a paper trail of these communications because I can’t see sewer backing up into a restaurant on a regular basis being a sustainable business practice.