Trade secrets are protected by actually keeping them secret, though - or having employees sign non-disclosure agreements, etc. There’s no specific legal protection of the secret. A former employee who uses the secret information could be sued for violating the non-disclosure agreement, but they would have had him sign one, something which seems unlikely for a pizza parlor.
And in the case of recipes, not going to the trouble of getting a patent because they know they’ll be unable to, anyways…
To be clear - it appears to be two pizza chains, not individual pizzerias. Most individual pizzerias don’t have executives at all. 
The guy was the president of the first company though, maybe they didn’t think to have him sign an NDA?
NDAs are for the “little people.” If it’s a president that’s the source of the issue, I’m surprised he didn’t have to sign a non-compete agreement.
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