Are you paying Yelp to exclude negative reviews? I wrote one last week and it still has not appeared.

There's no way to do that. Usually the cause is the review didn't meet Yelp's specific guidelines or it took longer than usual to post, r you didn't hit "submit"?. Reviews are up to the site, no one can "pay to remove" reviews.

Randy, yes, Yelp does take payment to remove negative reviews. They do it all the time. Is it likely a small business like this can afford to do it? No.