What Happened to Filling Station Pub After Bar Rescue? (San Diego, CA)

Filling Station Pub was a bar near a military installation in the Miramar area of San Diego, California, owned by Sissy Xue, who opened the business in 2013. According to reporting connected to the episode, the bar was initially successful, generating about $60,000 a month, before declining to roughly $15,000 a month in losses by the time Bar Rescue's "Big Sister's Watching" aired on November 8, 2015. The episode focused on Xue's use of in-house surveillance cameras to monitor her staff, reflecting a breakdown of trust between the owner and her employees that the show framed as a key obstacle to turning the business around.

Jon Taffer's team retrained the staff and reworked service standards, relaunching the bar under a new name, Off Base Bar, a nod to its location near the base. Producers reported that food sales roughly doubled and overall sales rose about 30 percent in the six weeks after the relaunch, and the business initially kept the new name. The relaunch did not sustain itself long term. A Foursquare listing for the address, 9522 Miramar Rd in San Diego, tags the location "(Now Closed)," and the trade publication Bar & Restaurant News, in coverage published around the time of the episode, noted ongoing operational strain at the business even after the makeover.

Later tracking by Reality TV Updates and other Bar Rescue-focused sites describes further difficulties at Off Base Bar following the relaunch that eventually led to its closure, though the precise closure date could not be independently confirmed from available sources. No reporting found in researching this record ties the closure to any specific legal or regulatory action; the available material describes a gradual decline rather than a single triggering event. Given the bar's original setting near a military installation, its clientele would have skewed toward service members and their families, a customer base the Off Base Bar rebrand was designed to serve more directly. As of the most recent information available, the address is no longer operating as a bar under either its original or relaunched name.