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Spencer Strode

Spencer Strode

Co-owner of Aubrey, a hospitality-driven fine dining restaurant in St. Louis' Midtown neighborhood.

Sep 8, 2026

6:39
Oh, no.
6:40
But to Trey's credit, whenever he says just trying to be helpful and try and stay busy, whenever you know the industry, you know that you don't know everything and can't go and do stuff whenever you start a new job or go work somewhere.
6:56
But you know that you can be helpful.
6:57
You know that you can clear plates and refill waters and, oh, I know how to polish silverware.
7:02
Just give me stuff that I know I can do and I can just, on my own time, watch what's going on and kind of pick it up that way um and i wasn't trying to sabotage trey but like yeah he was yeah he was i can tell it was uh it was just pretty quick that i think it clicked for the both of us that hey you know what we're gonna be all right there's a not even that there's enough room for both of us but like we're gonna do just fine um We do things very similarly, and I wasn't trying to take him from Napoli, but we literally became best friends, and I didn't want to go on with my dream basically without him to reassure that my thinking for our process wasn't ran by him or consulted with beforehand.
7:53
Like, hey, this is an idea that I have for six months in the future whenever we open.
7:58
What do we think about this? Oh, yeah.

7 MINS LATER

14:58
That sounds like a

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