None of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of their recent reviews. The three most-reviewed of them hold 745, 510 and 476 reviews, and the median across the twenty is 63. The median rating is 4.9, which is one figure for a whole trade and says nothing about which listing is which.
The dentists we read have a median of 366 reviews, the deepest median of the trades we read around Chaska. Among the ones answering the most, Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 630 reviews. Relaxation Dentistry answered 2 of its last 10, on a listing of 602. In orthodontists, the three answering the most are all at 9 or 10: West Lakes Dentistry - Chaska answered 10 of its last 10, Camp Smile 9 of 10, and Ovation Orthodontics 9 of 10 on 382 reviews.
One listing does a lot of work in food and drink. Cy's Bar and Grill, with 915 reviews, is among the businesses answering the most in all six of the food and drink trades we read — restaurants, cafés, coffee shops, bars, bakeries and food trucks — at 9 of its last 10. Take that for what it is: these lists are the businesses someone searching around Chaska is shown, not a register of what sits inside the city limits, and one listing can surface across several overlapping searches. Southern Social Chaska answered 10 of its last 10, on 816 reviews.
Across the 17 trades we read, 340 businesses in all, review files differ enormously. Massage sits at a median of 31.5 reviews and hair salons at 38, against the 366 of dentists. Some of the higher reply counts sit on the smaller listings: VIP Massage answered 7 of its last 10 on 96 reviews, Sugar Creek Chiropractic 7 of its last 10 on 50, Salon Avalon 10 of its last 10 on 115, and The Pearl Salon 9 of its last 10 on 134. Across the 41 businesses we measured in the set someone searching around Chaska is shown, a typical one answered 65% of its recent reviews.
What to do about it
Our reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews rather than the whole listing, so the job in front of an owner is smaller than a review total makes it look. The dentists we read have a median of 366 reviews; nothing here asks anyone to write back under all of that. Work down from the newest review you have not answered and stop where you have already been.
After that, the work is keeping up rather than catching up, and those are different jobs — the counts on this page only ever describe the recent end of a listing, so they move as new reviews arrive. Pick a fixed point in the week for it instead of replying whenever a review happens to be noticed. Answer the ones that read well alongside the ones that sting, and put each reply in your own words: a sentence that would fit under any review says nothing about the visit it is attached to.
Food & drink in Chaska, MN
Cy's Bar and Grill, a listing holding 915 reviews, appears among the businesses answering the most in every one of the six food and drink trades we read around Chaska, at 9 of its last 10 in each. That is worth pausing on, because the same listing can sit under more than one trade label. Across the six lists of businesses answering the most, six distinct businesses appear in total.
Southern Social Chaska answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 816 reviews; it sits at the top of the restaurant list and the cafe list. In restaurants, the median across the 20 we read is 280.5 reviews, and the three most-reviewed listings hold 1326, 1194 and 1040. The Golden Kitchen Mexican Bar & Grill, with 1040 reviews, answered 5 of its last 10. In cafes the median is 269 reviews, and Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, with 1638 reviews, answered 3 of its last 10.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 280.5 | 4.5 | Southern Social Chaska | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 269 | 4.55 | Southern Social Chaska | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 123.5 | 4.55 | Cy's Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Bars | 224 | 4.65 | Cy's Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 147 | 4.7 | Cy's Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 118 | 4.3 | Cy's Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Chaska, MN
The median hair salon among the 20 we read in the set someone searching around Chaska is shown holds 38 Google reviews. The median nail salon, out of the 20 we read there, holds 136. The three most-reviewed hair listings hold 341, 304 and 137; the three most-reviewed nail listings hold 410, 398 and 371. Same catchment, same number read in each trade, two very differently sized review files.
Answering is a separate matter from depth, and answering is the only thing this page orders anything by. These are the hair salons answering the most of their recent reviews, among the 20 we read. Salon Avalon answered 10 of its last 10, and its listing carries 115 reviews. The Pearl Salon answered 9 of its last 10, with 134. Fantastic Sams Cut & Color answered 3 of its last 10, with 137.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hair salons | 38 | 4.800000000000001 | Salon Avalon | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 136 | 4.5 | Blessed barbershop | 8 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in Chaska, MN
Day Massage answered 4 of its last 10 reviews, and that is the most of any of the 20 day spas we read around Chaska. Turbo Nails Spa answered 2 of its last 10. Those two are the businesses answering the most in that trade, so their counts say nothing about what the rest of the twenty we read are doing with their recent reviews.
The massage listings we read sit differently. VIP Massage answered 7 of its last 10, on a listing holding 96 reviews. Sugar Creek Chiropractic also answered 7 of its last 10, with 50 reviews. Day Massage turns up in this trade as well, at 4 of its last 10 and 199 reviews. That is three businesses out of the 20 we read, and nothing beyond them.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 58.5 | 4.8 | Day Massage | 4 of 10 |
| Massage | 31.5 | 4.9 | VIP Massage | 7 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Chaska, MN
Not one of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of its recent reviews. Set that beside the review counts in the same set: the three most-reviewed gym listings hold 745, 510 and 476 Google reviews, and the median across the 20 we read is 63. The median rating for that set is 4.9, which is a single figure for the whole trade and does not tell you which listing is which.
Among the 20 chiropractors we read, Bridge Chiropractic & Wellness answered 9 of its last 10 reviews and carries 273 Google reviews. Lake Life Chiropractic answered 6 of its last 10 and carries 324. Those are two businesses with their own numbers rather than a description of the trade, because we list only the ones answering the most, which leaves the rest of the 20 we read undescribed either way. The median review count in that set is 38 and the median rating is 5.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 63 | 4.9 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 38 | 5 | Bridge Chiropractic & Wellness | 9 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Chaska, MN
Review files are far deeper on one side of this group than the other. Among the 20 dentists someone searching around Chaska is shown, the median Google review count is 366; among the 20 orthodontists, it is 106. The three most-reviewed dentist listings hold 630, 602 and 504 reviews, and the three most-reviewed orthodontist listings hold 631, 435 and 425. Both trades show a median rating of 4.9. A trade median is one figure for a whole set: it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing here is ordered by stars.
Among the dentists we read, the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews are Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, at 9 of its last 10 on a listing holding 630 reviews, then Relaxation Dentistry and Shakopee Dental, each at 2 of their last 10, on listings holding 602 and 498. Those are the three we can name out of the 20 we read. The reply behaviour of the ones we did not name is not something this page knows.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 366 | 4.9 | Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics | 9 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 106 | 4.9 | West Lakes Dentistry - Chaska | 10 of 10 |
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Pets in Chaska, MN
One listing sits at the top of both pet lists we read around Chaska. Fleet Farm holds 3596 Google reviews and answered 10 of its most recent 10. It appears as the business answering the most in pet grooming, and again in pet boarding, so a customer running two searches they would think of as separate is shown the same listing twice.
Below that, the two files look different. Among the 20 pet groomers we read, the median listing holds 90 reviews and the three most-reviewed hold 3596, 794 and 467. Among the 20 in pet boarding, the median is 53 and the three most-reviewed hold 3596, 794 and 353. A median is the middle of the set, so most of what a searcher around Chaska is shown in these trades sits nearer 90 and 53 than the figures at the top of either list.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 90 | 4.6 | Fleet Farm | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 53 | 5 | Fleet Farm | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Chaska, MN
Bill's Toggery answered 9 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing holding 275 of them. Kohl's answered 6 of its last 10, on a listing holding 959. Shakopee Trading Post & Gallery answered 1 of its last 10, on a listing holding 154. Those three are the shops answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read in the set someone searching in Chaska is shown; how the rest of the twenty answered is not something we were shown.
Depth is not spread evenly across that set. The three most-reviewed shops we read hold 959, 275 and 187 reviews, while the median across the 20 is 36.5. Two different windows are at work in those figures, and it is worth keeping them apart: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts describe the whole listing.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shops | 36.5 | 4.85 | Bill's Toggery | 9 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 Chaska, 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. Chaska, MN has a population of 28,146 and a median household income of $110,000 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.