Two trades came back completely quiet. We read 20 coffee shops and 20 gyms in the set someone searching around Blaine is shown, and in both of them not one business had answered any of its recent reviews. These are not thin listings. The coffee shops carry a median of 286 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed of them hold 756, 743 and 667. The gyms sit at a median of 129.5, with the three biggest at 713, 663 and 480. The reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews; the review counts are the whole listing.
Across the 60 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Blaine is shown, a typical one answered 82% of its recent reviews, so the quiet trades are not the pattern here. Among the veterinarians, Andover Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 and its listing holds 824 reviews; Rice Creek Animal Hospital also answered 10 of its last 10, with 611. In hair salons, European Wax Center answered 10 of its last 10 with 580 reviews, and Fantastic Sams Cut & Color answered 10 of its last 10 with 393.
Depth of file and reply behaviour come apart most visibly in bars, the trade with the heaviest numbers we read anywhere here: a median of 1,126 reviews and three listings at 4,084, 3,803 and 3,175. Clive's Roadhouse Blaine answered 7 of its last 10, against a listing of 2,500. The Tavern Grill Blaine answered 2 of its last 10, on 3,175. Meanwhile the food trucks we read have a median of 49 reviews, and Jimmy John's answered 10 of its last 10 on 273, Five Guys 10 of its last 10 on 203.
Median ratings across these trades run from 4.3 in restaurants and bars up to 5 in IV therapy and weight-loss clinics. A trade median is one figure for a whole set; it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by stars.
What to do about it
If your trade is one of the quiet ones, the job in front of you is smaller than a listing with 286 or 713 reviews under it makes it look. Our counts come from each business's most recent reviews, and the businesses at 10 of 10 got there by handling ten. Start at the newest review and work backwards, and include the good ones — a five-star review with nothing under it is the same silence as a complaint with nothing under it.
The harder part is what comes after. Catching up once and keeping up are different jobs, and the second one is what a figure like 10 of 10 actually records. Decide now who writes them and when — a fixed slot each week is enough at these volumes. Write them in your own words rather than a stock line repeated down the page; a reader scanning a listing can tell the difference, and so can the person whose review you are answering.
Food & drink in Blaine, MN
Twenty coffee shops were read in the set someone searching around Blaine is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. These are not thin listings: the median coffee shop in that set carries 286 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 756, 743 and 667. The two windows are different, and worth keeping straight — the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts are the whole listing.
Bars carry the deepest files in this group, at a median of 1126 reviews, with the three biggest listings at 4084, 3803 and 3175. Clive's Roadhouse Blaine answered 7 of its last 10 and carries 2500 reviews. The Tavern Grill Blaine answered 2 of its last 10, against 3175 reviews. Ole Piper Inn answered 1 of its last 10, against 3803. Set beside that: across the 60 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Blaine is shown, a typical one answered 82% of its recent reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 540 | 4.3 | Chipotle Mexican Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Cafés | 361 | 4.5 | CRISP & GREEN | 9 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 286 | 4.55 | — | |
| Bars | 1126 | 4.3 | Clive's Roadhouse Blaine | 7 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 134 | 4.6 | Cold Stone Creamery | 9 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 49 | 4.6 | Jimmy John's | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Blaine, MN
Nail salons carry the deepest review files of the three trades here: a median of 276.5 Google reviews per business across the 20 we read, against 154 for barbershops and 142 for hair salons. The three most-reviewed nail salons in that set hold 731, 608 and 461 reviews. Platinum Nails, with 608 reviews, had answered 10 of its last 10. Great Nails & Spa Blaine, with 461, had answered 10 of its last 10. Be Mine Nails Salon Blaine MN, with 456 reviews, had answered 1 of its last 10.
Among the hair salons someone searching in Blaine is shown, the three answering the most had each answered all ten of their most recent reviews: European Wax Center at 580 total reviews, Fantastic Sams Cut & Color at 393, and Sport Clips Haircuts of Blaine at 248. The barbershop figures sit differently. Cutting Edge Barbershop LLC, with 270 reviews, had answered 9 of its last 10. MR BARBER, with 343, had answered 4 of its last 10. Todaze Hair, with 248, had answered 1 of its last 10. In every trade these are only the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews; the rest of the twenty we read in each are not named, and we are not saying what they do.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 154 | 4.8 | Cutting Edge Barbershop LLC | 9 of 10 |
| Hair salons | 142 | 4.8 | European Wax Center | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 276.5 | 4.55 | Platinum Nails | 10 of 10 |
Spa & aesthetics in Blaine, MN
IV therapy has a median of 35 Google reviews across the 20 businesses we read, and the three most-reviewed in that set carry 1034, 514 and 450. Dynamic Drips, the listing at 1034, answered 10 of its last 10 reviews. Minnesota IV Hydration and Wellness LLC answered 10 of its last 10, on 274 reviews. Those are two different windows: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing.
The deepest listings in this group sit with the medical trades. Dermatology's three most-reviewed carry 1552, 1368 and 589 against a trade median of 91, and plastic surgery's carry 1368, 1275 and 1225 against a median of 69. Day spas and massage, 20 read in each, show medians of 80.5 and 127. Depth and replies are separate things: North Metro Dermatology, at 1552 reviews, answered 9 of its last 10, and European Wax Center answered 10 of its last 10 on 580. Among the 60 businesses we measured for someone searching in Blaine, the typical one had answered 82% of its recent reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 80.5 | 4.9 | European Wax Center | 10 of 10 |
| Massage | 127 | 4.8 | Blaine Health & Wellness | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 98 | 4.9 | TC Medspa & Laser | 10 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 35 | 5 | Dynamic Drips | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 48 | 5 | TC Medspa & Laser | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 91 | 4.8 | North Metro Dermatology | 9 of 10 |
| Plastic surgery | 69 | 4.7 | Minnesota Eye Consultants | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Blaine, MN
None of the twenty gyms we read had answered any of their recent reviews. Not one of them. The review files sitting underneath that are not thin either: the three most-reviewed gyms someone searching around Blaine is shown carry 713, 663 and 480 Google reviews, and the median across the twenty is 129.5. Those totals are whole listings. The reply counts are a narrower measurement, drawn only from each business's most recent reviews, so what this says precisely is that nobody in that set of twenty had written anything back under the newest ones.
Among the twenty chiropractors we read, the three answering the most of their recent reviews were Blaine Family Chiropractic, which answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing carrying 305 reviews; Blaine Chiropractic Center, 10 of its last 10, with 233 reviews; and Club West Chiropractic, 9 of its last 10, with 202. Those are the only three we can describe. The rest of the twenty we read are not named here and this page makes no claim about what they do.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 129.5 | 4.7 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 122 | 4.9 | Blaine Family Chiropractic | 10 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Blaine, MN
Central Avenue Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing carrying 488. Blaine Dentistry answered 8 of its last 10, on 464. Pro Dental - Blaine, MN answered 3 of its last 10, on 619. Those are the dentists answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read in the set someone searching around Blaine is shown; the rest of that twenty are not named here, and their reply behaviour is not something this page can describe.
Among the 20 orthodontists we read, Blaine Kidds Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics answered 9 of its last 10, on a listing of 695. Milestone Orthodontics also answered 9 of its last 10, on 392. Pura Vida Orthodontics answered 8 of its last 10, on 308. The median orthodontist listing in that set holds 167.5 reviews and the median dentist listing holds 260.5. The three biggest orthodontist files we read hold 695, 619 and 608; the three biggest dentist files hold 619, 527 and 488.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 260.5 | 4.8 | Central Avenue Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 167.5 | 4.9 | Blaine Kidds Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics | 9 of 10 |
Pets in Blaine, MN
Veterinarians in the set someone searching around Blaine is shown carry a median of 281.5 Google reviews across the 20 we read, and the three deepest files hold 824, 703 and 611. Andover Animal Hospital, with 824 reviews on its listing, answered 10 of its last 10. Rice Creek Animal Hospital, at 611 reviews, also answered 10 of 10, and so did Foley Boulevard Animal Hospital at 474.
Grooming and boarding sit on much shorter files. Pet grooming has a median of 88 reviews across the 20 we read, pet boarding 91, though the biggest grooming listing in that set holds 1,142. Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson, at 499 reviews, answered 10 of its last 10, and it is among the businesses answering the most in both trades. Scenthound Coon Rapids answered 10 of 10 with 334 reviews; PetSuites Blaine answered 10 of 10 with 271. On the boarding side, Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Xenia answered 10 of 10 at 405 reviews, and Blaine Kennels Boarding, Training & Daycare answered 10 of 10 at 384.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 88 | 4.6 | Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 91 | 4.7 | Stone Mountain Pet Lodge - Blaine Radisson | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 281.5 | 4.7 | Andover Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Blaine, MN
Three listings in this group carry 638, 525 and 375 Google reviews. The median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 117, which is where most of this group actually sits.
Mafia Ink Tattoo Studio, with 363 reviews, answered 8 of its last 10. Red Lotus Tattoo, with 299 reviews, answered 7 of its last 10. Creative Images, with 375 reviews, answered 2 of its last 10. Those are the three answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read, and we have not named the rest. Worth keeping the two windows apart: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 117 | 4.8 | Mafia Ink Tattoo Studio | 8 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 Blaine, 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. Blaine, MN has a population of 71,261 and a median household income of $103,382 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.