The story highlighted an interesting feature of the corporate veil. The owner claims that the recipes were his personal property. The whole point of a corporate bankruptcy is that the debts belonged to the corporate entity and not the owners. This seems like some kind of conversion to me: sneaking the goods out of the store before the auction.
Wait. Cuban food? That's a known thing. You can look it up. Anyone who can cook and remembers Paseo's food should be able to start with a standard recipe (you know, like from a book -- one of those paper things where the pages are all bound together along one edge between covers that open) and tweak it to duplicate what the restaurant served.
Looking forward to Mitt Romney'ed Paseo sandwiches.
Maybe that's the kind of sleazy shit that got them in trouble in the first place.