Fake Your Expense Reports: NY Restaurant's Recession App Helps You Fudge Receipts (PHOTOS)

Forget Lehman, Bear Stearns, and AIG. According to New York steakhouse Maloney & Porcelli, "one of the biggest casualties of the financial crisis is the expense account meal."

But not any more. Maloney & Porcelli have created an "expense-report generator" that lets you take the total you spent on your meal (or essentially any figure that you choose) and creates fake cab, office supply, and cheap-o meal receipts so your boss won't know about the filet mignon and merlot you had on the company's tab. Check it out for yourself at expenseasteak.com.

The receipts come looking like they've been photocopied onto 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and are even perfectly wrinkled to look like they've been mussed while stuffed into a pocket. (See photo below)

According to New York magazine, Maloney & Porcelli is also supposedly "giving customers doggie bags marked with Chipotle, Sbarro, and Olive Garden logos." Nice touch.

Thank goodness those starving bankers and business folk can go back to enjoying their $21 shrimp cocktails, $44 rib steaks ($10 sides are extra), and $46 filet mignons.

It's no coincidence this app comes from Maloney & Porcelli, which happens to be located kitty corner from Bank Row in Manhattan's Midtown East, at the nexus of JP Morgan, UBS, and the former Bear Sterns buildings. Praised as the "best business lunch in NYC" by Gourmet Magazine, they must be feeling the pinch.

Comments

[lvdragonlady]

Greed knows no bounds.
It is this kind of mentality that has brought America to it's knees.
Good Grief.

[iBlog4Food]

dragon lady

It would bring America to ITS knees if it were real.

Good Grief.

[Eris23]

This is certain to help the already damaged rep of wall street execs getting bonuses on our tax dollars. ;)

[manhattanphile]

Great story on this scheme over at New York Insider TV. They also have a photo of the bags M&P plans to use. Pretty darn clever. (If only as a marketing ploy.) See http://www.newyorkinsider.tv/blog/2009/9/30/channel-your-inner-bernie-madoff.html

[pov]

Their biggest customers must be the movers and shakers on Wall Street and their cohorts and underlings.

[sxp151]

No, it doesn't seem like the sort of place that would let black people in.

How else would they attract customers like you?

[liver tuan]

I can't believe so many of you would condone theft, and fraud. Those of you who find humor in stealing from your employer are literally what is wrong with todays world. You howl when politicians steal from their constituents, you howl when you are denied services from a business when they can no longer afford to offer it, but you think stealing is OK? Your dishonesty is pervasive and deteriorates the very fabric of this nation.

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[future primitive]

It's. Just. A. Viral. Advertisement.

[hchr]

To: liver tuan, Take a deep breath. It is a fabulously clever joke !!!!

[adsandiego]

You have to forgive the poor chap, he's spamming his blogspot by pretending to have a point.
Another poster caught him cut&paste his comment EXACTLY and used it as his own.
Check profile re: tweeter.

[Mondayboy]

Funniest viral of the day. I have eaten there a couple of times....t­hey have a good sense of humor.

[thori]

Joke. It's a joke people. One of the receipts is for $2,000 worth of "dust-eeze air in a can.

[SusieQ45]

Not a joke - that's what they've been inhaling.

[tb1010]

I can't wait for the indictment on federal accessory to tax fraud charges. Also They are clearly committing felony fraud by falsifying documents. How on earth did this get past their legal department? Even if they disclaim responsibility they are still forging and aiding...

[Bude]

We can call it a real-time virtual lunch, and cab ride.
A reverse intellectual property with promise!
Now that's American technology at its best!.

[Bude]

Yeah! Put capitalism to work FOR you, rather than AGAINST you.

[JScott]

I can see the ad for the I Phone now....

Local pizzaria, got an app for that, movie house got an app for that, receipt fudger got an app for that.

[JScott]

And we only know about this now? C'mon this is most likely been goin on for a long time.

[foxbat]

Great. Fudging on policy and oversight, along with greed, led to this recession/­depression and now in the midst of it of it all, we're still looking for newer ways to dig ourselves deeper.

... at long last, have we no sense of decency?

[future primitive]

As a viral ad, this is genius. The expense faker might work once if you are under the gun. PDF documents right to your printer. The whole thing drew me all the way to the restaurant website and I don't even visit NYC. I like the Weekend Wine Dinner. Any appetizer, entree & dessert for $75 with unlimited pours of the featured wines. Mandavi. Prosecco. Not bad. I got a little sticker shock on the rest. NYC prices are brutal.