Twenty cafés were read in the set someone searching around Andover is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. The same holds for the twenty gyms: none had a reply under any recent review. These are not thin listings. The median café file holds 152 Google reviews and the most-reviewed one holds 2,789; the median gym holds 103, and the three largest gym files hold 713, 690 and 298.
Other trades carry named businesses at the top of the scale. Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 499 reviews, and Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Xenia answered 10 of its last 10 with 405. Andover Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 behind a file of 824 reviews, and Elm Creek Animal Hospital did the same with 607. Essentials of Life Chiropractic answered 10 of its last 10 with 410.
Review depth swings hard from one trade to the next. The median bar in this set holds 1,070.5 reviews, the deepest median of the 22 trades we read; restaurants sit at 755 and veterinarians at 378.5. At the other end the median food truck holds 33 and the median IV therapy listing 30. Depth and answering are separate things. Herban Wolf Deli answered 10 of its last 10 in a food truck set whose median file is 33 reviews, and Margie's Kitchen & Cocktails answered 8 of its last 10 with 1,757 reviews behind it.
Andover's population is 32,825 and its median household income $131,528. A typical business among the 53 we measured in what a searcher in Andover is shown answered 80% of its recent reviews. Stars are not what this page orders by. The median rating is 5 for med spas, IV therapy and chiropractors, 4.9 for day spas, orthodontists and tattoo studios, and 4.4 for bars — and a trade median is one figure for a whole set of twenty, so it does not tell you which listing is which.
What to do about it
Every reply count on this page is drawn from a business's most recent reviews, not from its whole file. That is why a listing sitting behind 2,789 reviews can show nothing answered here, and it is also why catching up is a smaller job than it looks — the newest handful is what the count reaches. Start at the newest review and work backwards until you get to ones where you no longer remember the visit.
Answer the plainly good ones as well as the difficult ones, and make each reply different from the last. Two sentences naming what the customer actually wrote do more than a line that would sit just as well under any review of any business. And keeping a count high is a different job from getting it there: the first pass is the long one, the few that arrive each week after that are not.
Food & drink in Andover, MN
Twenty cafés were read in the set someone searching in Andover is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. Of the six food and drink trades we read here, cafés are the only one where that is true. The median café listing holds 152 Google reviews and the three most-reviewed hold 2,789, 1,507 and 1,250 — those are whole-listing counts, while the reply figures come from each business's most recent reviews.
Bars show the highest median review count of any trade we measured around Andover: 1,070.5 across the 20 read, next to 755 for restaurants, 152 for cafés and 33 for food trucks. Margie's Kitchen & Cocktails answered 8 of its last 10 and holds 1,757 reviews, and it sits among the businesses answering the most in both the restaurant set and the bar set. Among food trucks, Herban Wolf Deli answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 355 reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 755 | 4.55 | Margie's Kitchen & Cocktails | 8 of 10 |
| Cafés | 152 | 4.8 | — | |
| Coffee shops | 141 | 4.7 | Krown Bakery & Eatery | 7 of 10 |
| Bars | 1070.5 | 4.4 | Margie's Kitchen & Cocktails | 8 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 94 | 4.8 | Krown Bakery & Eatery | 7 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 33 | 4.6 | Herban Wolf Deli | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Andover, MN
Adore Nails answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing carrying 631 of them. Great Nails & Spa Blaine also answered 10 of its last 10, on 461. Across the 20 nail salons we read in the set someone searching around Andover is shown, the median listing carries 264 reviews, and the three largest carry 804, 631 and 583. Two different windows are in play there: the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts are the whole listing.
Among the 20 barbershops we read, Resemble Premium Barbershop Andover answered 9 of its last 10, on 385 reviews, and Cutting Edge Barbershop LLC answered 9 of its last 10, on 270. The median barbershop listing carries 138.5 reviews, and the three largest carry 385, 365 and 270. Among the 20 hair salons, Fantastic Sams Cut & Color answered 10 of its last 10, on 197, and Belli Capelli the Salon answered 10 of its last 10, on 193. The median there is 108.5, with the three largest at 209, 197 and 193.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 138.5 | 4.8 | Resemble Premium Barbershop Andover | 9 of 10 |
| Hair salons | 108.5 | 4.8 | Fantastic Sams Cut & Color | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 264 | 4.8 | Adore Nails | 10 of 10 |
Spa & aesthetics in Andover, MN
The most-reviewed day spa in this group holds 790 Google reviews. The median IV therapy listing holds 30. Both trades sit in the same section of this page, and the files underneath them are nothing alike. Day spas come in at a median of 77 reviews and massage at 86; med spas and dermatology both sit at 37.5, and IV therapy at 30. The largest listings on the medical side are not small — 651, 450 and 274 are the three biggest in IV therapy, and 589, 437 and 300 the three biggest in dermatology — but those are three listings each.
Among the med spas we read, the three businesses answering the most each answered all ten of their most recent reviews: Minnesota IV Hydration and Wellness LLC, whose listing holds 274 reviews, TC Medspa & Laser at 263, and Artistry Aesthetics at 193. IV therapy reads the same way at the top — Allina Health Urgent Care – Coon Rapids answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing of 450, Minnesota IV Hydration and Wellness answered 10 of 10, and InnerBeauty Med Spa & Laser answered 10 of its last 10 on 166. In day spas, La Grande BeautySpa And Boutique answered 10 of its last 10 with 790 reviews on the listing. Fiona's Day Spa answered 10 of 10 with 185. Better Life Massage answered 4 of its last 10 with 141.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 77 | 4.9 | La Grande BeautySpa And Boutique | 10 of 10 |
| Massage | 86 | 4.8 | Fiona's Day Spa | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 37.5 | 5 | Minnesota IV Hydration and Wellness LLC | 10 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 30 | 5 | Allina Health Urgent Care – Coon Rapids | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 37.5 | 4.95 | TC Medspa & Laser | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Andover, MN
Not one of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of its recent reviews. That is true right across the ones we read, including the deepest listings among them: the three most-reviewed gyms of the twenty carry 713, 690 and 298 Google reviews, against a median of 103 for the set we read. Those review counts are whole listings; the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews.
Chiropractors are a different picture, at least among the three answering the most. Essentials of Life Chiropractic answered 10 of its last 10 and its listing holds 410 reviews. Blaine Family Chiropractic answered 10 of its last 10 with 305 reviews, and Health and Healing Family Chiropractic answered 9 of its last 10 with 296. We read 20 chiropractors, and those three are the ones replying most; what the rest of the twenty we read do is not something these figures tell you.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 103 | 4.55 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 151.5 | 5 | Essentials of Life Chiropractic | 10 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Andover, MN
Central Avenue Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing holding 488. Blaine Dentistry answered 8 of its last 10, with 464. Those are two of the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 dentists we read. Also on that list: Ham Lake Dental, which holds 612 reviews and answered 1 of its last 10. Review count and recent-reply count are separate measurements here, and they are read over different windows: the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing.
Among the 20 orthodontists we read, the three answering the most of their recent reviews all landed on the same figure. Milestone Orthodontics answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 392 reviews. Twin Cities Dental answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 323. Woodlake Orthodontics - Anoka answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 234.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 227.5 | 4.8 | Central Avenue Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 141 | 4.9 | Milestone Orthodontics | 9 of 10 |
Pets in Andover, MN
All three of the pet boarding businesses answering the most around Andover answered every one of their last ten. Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 499 Google reviews. Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Xenia answered 10 of its last 10 with 405. Blaine Kennels Boarding, Training & Daycare answered 10 of its last 10 with 384. Those are the three replying most out of the 20 boarding businesses we read; the rest of the twenty we did not name are not described by those figures.
The veterinary listings someone searching around Andover is shown hold the deepest review files of the three pet trades we read here: a median of 378.5 reviews per business across the 20 read, with the three biggest listings at 824, 703 and 607. Andover Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10, on a file of 824 reviews. Elm Creek Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10, on 607. Oak Grove Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10, on 557. Large files and full recent reply counts turn up together in the same trade.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 75 | 4.8 | Scenthound Coon Rapids | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 125.5 | 4.65 | Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 378.5 | 4.7 | Andover Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Andover, MN
Three tattoo listings in the set someone searching around Andover is shown hold 703, 638 and 299 Google reviews. The median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 89. Those are whole-listing counts — the full Google file, not recent activity — so a few very deep listings sit in the same set as a median of 89.
The reply counts work differently: they are drawn from each business's most recent reviews. Red Lotus Tattoo answered 7 of its last 10, on a listing holding 299 reviews. Time Bomb Ink answered 3 of its last 10, on 237. Serenity Tattoo and Piercing answered 3 of its last 10, on 183. Those three are the businesses answering the most of the 20 we read. The rest of the twenty we did not name, and this page cannot tell you what they do.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 89 | 4.9 | Red Lotus Tattoo | 7 of 10 |
Method
Every figure comes from public Google listings — the businesses and owner replies any customer can see — read on 2026-09-24. Counts describe the businesses someone searching in Andover, MN is shown, which is the competitive set a customer actually chooses from, not a register of businesses inside the city limits. A business is named only where we read at least eight of its recent reviews, and only the ones answering the most are named; the rest of a market appears as a distribution with its denominator. Chains are counted but never named. Nothing is ranked on star rating. Andover, MN has a population of 32,825 and a median household income of $131,528 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.