Twenty coffee shops were read in the set someone searching around Eden Prairie is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is not a thin trade with nothing to answer: the median coffee shop in that set carries 173 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 1,201, 776 and 708. The reviews came in and nothing went back out.
Depth swings hard across the food and drink trades we read here. The median bar carries 1,823.5 Google reviews; the median cafe carries 152.5, and the median food truck 85.5. Kona Grill - Eden Prairie, which appears in this set under both restaurants and bars, has 6,171 reviews and answered 8 of its last 10. Tavern 4&5 answered 7 of its last 10 against 3,089. Redstone American Grill answered 4 of its last 10 against 2,552.
Among the food trucks, PIZZA KARMA - Eden Prairie answered 9 of its last 10 with 806 reviews behind it, and Boom Island Brewing Company answered 8 of its last 10 with 480. Among the bakeries, the business answering the most of its recent reviews is Honey & Rye, at 3 of its last 10, with 619 reviews; the three most-reviewed bakeries in that set hold 1,599, 1,201 and 993.
We measured 46 of the businesses someone searching in Eden Prairie is shown; a typical one answered 81% of its recent reviews. That figure covers every trade together, not food and drink on its own. On stars, the median rating runs 4.5 for bars, 4.6 for restaurants, cafes and coffee shops, 4.7 for bakeries and 4.8 for food trucks. A median is one number for a whole trade; it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by rating anyway.
What to do about it
The counts here are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, not its whole file, which is why a listing with 6,171 reviews can still show 8 of its last 10 answered. Nobody has to go back through thousands. Start at the newest and work backwards, and treat catching up once as a different job from keeping up: a batch written in a single sitting is the easy half, and the harder half is deciding who writes the next one and when.
Answer the good ones as well as the awkward ones, and write each reply in your own words rather than from a template; two replies built from the same template are the same reply. Twenty coffee shops were read in this catchment and not one had answered any of its recent reviews, which is where a listing ends up when nobody ever starts.
Restaurants
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kona Grill - Eden Prairie | 8 of 10 | 6171 | 4.6 |
| 2 | Tavern 4&5 | 7 of 10 | 3089 | 4.5 |
| 3 | Redstone American Grill | 4 of 10 | 2552 | 4.5 |
Cafés
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tavern 4&5 | 7 of 10 | 3090 | 4.5 |
Coffee shops
We read 20 coffee shops businesses here and not one had answered a single one of its ten most recent reviews. The first owner here who replies is the only one doing it.
Bars
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kona Grill - Eden Prairie | 8 of 10 | 6180 | 4.6 |
| 2 | Tavern 4&5 | 7 of 10 | 3090 | 4.5 |
| 3 | Full Tilt Tavern | 3 of 10 | 3073 | 4.6 |
Bakeries
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 | 619 | 4.6 |
Food trucks
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PIZZA KARMA - Eden Prairie | 9 of 10 | 806 | 4.5 |
| 2 | Boom Island Brewing Company | 8 of 10 | 480 | 4.6 |
| 3 | Bad Rooster Food Truck | 3 of 10 | 439 | 4.6 |