https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/02/paella-piracy-lawsuit-claims-owners-of-new-palo-alto-spanish-restaurant-stole-recipes-key-information-from-bay-area-rival-teleferic/

A Palo Alto culinary couple stands accused by a popular Bay Area restaurant group of paella piracy and a tapas two-step.

Restaurant group Teleféric Barcelona claims in a trade-secrets lawsuit that a husband and wife it hired to help run its operations stole recipes and customer and client data so they could start a rival Spanish eatery called Macarena in Palo Alto.