{"id":21311,"date":"2026-08-12T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:04:03","slug":"uber-eats-owed-a-restaurant-40000-it-took-8-months-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/uber-eats-owed-a-restaurant-40000-it-took-8-months-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Eats Owed a Restaurant $40,000. It Took 8 Months to Pay."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Forty thousand dollars is a lot to wait on when you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/how-to-start-a-restaurant\/73384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running a small restaurant<\/a>. But that\u2019s exactly what happened to Joy Kim, who spent eight months chasing down money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/you-can-now-book-hotels-on-uber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber Eats<\/a> owed her.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who owns Kyoto Teriyaki on Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill, had been waiting since November 2025 for the company to pay out nearly 1,500 orders, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13seattle.com\/news\/seattle-teriyaki-shop-owner-receive-40k-from-uber-eats-after-months-payment-delays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox 13 Seattle<\/a>. She called support, sent emails, updated her bank information. Nothing worked. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until Fox 13 Seattle began inquiring about the missing funds that Uber Eats moved. Uber Eats said the delay came down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/5-things-to-consider-when-evaluating-id-verification\/472715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity verification<\/a> required to protect the merchant account, and that representatives made multiple attempts to reach Kim without success. The company said it completed video verification with her in late July and began processing the payment shortly after. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the ordeal, Kim plans to keep using the platform. Local customers order through Uber Eats every day, she said, and cutting it off would mean losing a revenue stream she can\u2019t afford to lose.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Forty thousand dollars is a lot to wait on when you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/how-to-start-a-restaurant\/73384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running a small restaurant<\/a>. But that\u2019s exactly what happened to Joy Kim, who spent eight months chasing down money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/you-can-now-book-hotels-on-uber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber Eats<\/a> owed her.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who owns Kyoto Teriyaki on Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill, had been waiting since November 2025 for the company to pay out nearly 1,500 orders, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13seattle.com\/news\/seattle-teriyaki-shop-owner-receive-40k-from-uber-eats-after-months-payment-delays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox 13 Seattle<\/a>. She called support, sent emails, updated her bank information. Nothing worked. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until Fox 13 Seattle began inquiring about the missing funds that Uber Eats moved. Uber Eats said the delay came down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/5-things-to-consider-when-evaluating-id-verification\/472715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity verification<\/a> required to protect the merchant account, and that representatives made multiple attempts to reach Kim without success. The company said it completed video verification with her in late July and began processing the payment shortly after. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the ordeal, Kim plans to keep using the platform. Local customers order through Uber Eats every day, she said, and cutting it off would mean losing a revenue stream she can\u2019t afford to lose.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/uber-eats-owed-this-restaurant-owner-40000-it-took-8-months-and-a-news-story-to-get-her-paid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty thousand dollars is a lot to wait on when you\u2019re running a small restaurant. But that\u2019s exactly what happened to Joy Kim, who spent eight months chasing down money Uber Eats owed her. Kim, who owns Kyoto Teriyaki on Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill, had been waiting since November 2025 for the company to pay out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21312,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}