Kreuz Market Suspects Ex-Employee Stole Trade Secrets

Lockhart barbecue institution Kreuz Market has big expansion plans in the works, and they are concerned an ex-employee left with key information. The Statesman reports that Kreuz seeks to depose Brian Thornton, who quit earlier this summer in a rush. Court documents state:

It is believed that Thornton, at or just before the time he resigned from Kreuz, took possession of company documents, including company trade secrets, in paper form and/or by placing electronic versions on a flash drive or other devices . . . It is further believed that Thornton deleted electronic copies of these documents from the Kreuz computer system so that such documents would no longer be accessible by Kreuz