Among the 20 cafés we read in the set someone searching around Chanhassen is shown, the highest reply count we found was 2 of the last 10, at Med Box Grill. Bakeries were not far off: Lakewinds Food Co-op answered 3 of its last 10, and Hold The Wheat answered 1 of its last 10 against a Google file of 466 reviews. Lakewinds Food Co-op sits at the top of the coffee shop list too, again at 3 of its last 10. These are the businesses answering the most in each of those trades, not typical ones.
The bar and restaurant sets read differently on the same measure. Houlihan's answered 9 of its last 10 and carries 1397 reviews; it appears in both the restaurant set and the bar set, as a few of these businesses do. Tavern 4&5 answered 7 of its last 10, with 3090 reviews behind it. The three most-reviewed bar listings hold 5830, 3090 and 1966 reviews, while the median across the 20 bars we read is 310 — half that set sits at or below 310.
Food trucks carry the thinnest files of the six trades here: a median of 45 reviews across the 20 we read, against 439 for restaurants, 310 for bars, 267 for cafés, 173.5 for coffee shops and 117 for bakeries. The three most-reviewed listings in that same food truck set hold 1267, 937 and 878. Boom Island Brewing Company answered 8 of its last 10 with 480 reviews; Bad Rooster Food Truck answered 3 of its last 10 with 439.
Across the 53 businesses we measured in what someone searching around Chanhassen is shown, a typical one answered 74% of its recent reviews. That figure covers every trade we read here together — dentists, salons, vets and the rest — not food and drink on its own. Median ratings in this group run 4.45 for bars, 4.5 for restaurants, 4.6 for cafés and coffee shops, and 4.8 for both bakeries and food trucks. A median is one number for a whole set; it does not tell you which listing is which.
What to do about it
Two different windows are in play on this page. The reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews; the review totals are the whole listing. That distinction matters if you are looking at a file of 466 or 1397 and concluding it is too late to start. Nobody is asking you to answer 466 reviews. What the counts measure is the newest ten.
So start at the newest and work back, and stop when you run out of recent ones. Answer the straightforward reviews as well as the awkward ones — a two-line reply that names what the person actually ordered is a reply; the same sentence pasted under ten of them is a different thing, and it looks like what it is. Then the part that is easy to miss: a single catch-up shows as ten answered reviews now and nothing three months out. The count only holds where you put it if you keep feeding it.
Restaurants
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houlihan's | 9 of 10 | 1397 | 4.3 |
| 2 | Med Box Grill | 2 of 10 | 877 | 4.8 |
Cafés
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Med Box Grill | 2 of 10 | 878 | 4.8 |
Coffee shops
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakewinds Food Co-op | 3 of 10 | 358 | 4.7 |
Bars
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houlihan's | 9 of 10 | 1397 | 4.3 |
| 2 | Tavern 4&5 | 7 of 10 | 3090 | 4.5 |
Bakeries
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakewinds Food Co-op | 3 of 10 | 358 | 4.7 |
| 2 | Hold The Wheat | 1 of 10 | 466 | 4.8 |
Food trucks
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boom Island Brewing Company | 8 of 10 | 480 | 4.6 |
| 2 | Bad Rooster Food Truck | 3 of 10 | 439 | 4.6 |
| 3 | Med Box Grill | 2 of 10 | 878 | 4.8 |