San Diego Magazine
It’s four o’clock on a Monday and George Khouli and Laila Knight are right in their happy place: behind the bar.
“What do you want? Open that tequila. We’re having tequila,” Khouli instructs his better half. “Cheers!”
Slamming a shot glass on the bar, he declares, “In our house, it’s always happy hour, because it’s a happy home.” It’s also a Lloyd Ruocco home, Knight clarifies. Like Khouli, she’s a bit of an architecture buff. Both immigrants—she from Puerto Rico and he from Syria—the homeowners met over a quarter century ago in San Diego and now own Payless Car Rental together.
