Twenty barbershops were read around Edina and not one had replied to any of its recent reviews. That is not a thin trade: the median barbershop in that set carries 175 Google reviews, the median rating is 4.8, and the three most-reviewed sit at 681, 523 and 285. Those listings have recent reviews on them with nothing written underneath.
Across the 56 businesses measured for the town benchmark, a typical business answered 72% of its recent reviews, so barbering is the exception here rather than the pattern. The businesses replying the most run right to the top of the scale: Dentistry on 77th answered 10 of its last 10 while carrying 516 reviews, Nokomis Chiropractic and Wellness 10 of 10 with 339, Skin Artisans at Edina Plastic Surgery 10 of 10 with 524, and The DRIPBaR Edina 10 of 10 with 248.
Coffee is the other quiet corner. Among the 20 cafés and the 20 coffee shops read, the strongest repliers we found stopped at 3 of the last 10 — Honey & Rye at 3 of 10 against 619 reviews, Patisserie Margo at 3 of 10 against 280 — and the strongest bakery replier we found was Honey & Rye again, at 3 of 10. Restaurants read differently. Town Hall Station answered 10 of its last 10 with 1,024 reviews, and Tavern on France answered 7 of 10 while carrying 3,358.
Bars hold the heaviest review counts a searcher in Edina is shown, a median of 1,003 with the top three at 4,120, 3,723 and 3,361. Ratings sit high nearly everywhere: tattoo studios have a median of 5, where Rowan Southdale Center answered 10 of its last 10 against 617 reviews; food trucks and med spas sit at 4.9; nail salons carry the lowest median we measured at 4.5, and there Nail Bar & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 against 973 reviews. 460 businesses were read in all, in a town of 53,125 people with a median household income of $129,225.
What to do about it
If you cut hair around Edina, every barbershop we read is sitting on reviews nobody has answered, so there is no backlog to compete with — open your listing, take the ten most recent reviews and write a sentence under each one in the voice you use at the chair. The same gap shows in cafés, coffee shops and bakeries, where the best repliers we found had answered 3 of their last 10.
If you work in one of the trades where businesses are answering 10 of 10 — dentistry, chiropractic, med spa, nails, tattoo — the recent ten are what a customer actually scrolls, so keep those current instead of working backwards through years of old ones. Answer the five-star reviews too, not only the ones that sting; they are the faster ones to write. And ask for the review while the customer is still standing in front of you, not the next day once they have gone.
Food & drink in Edina, MN
A food truck answered every one of its last 10 reviews. Cousins Maine Lobster Minneapolis, with 354 reviews, replied to 10 of 10 — and so did Town Hall Station, a restaurant with 1,024. Neither is the most-reviewed business in its trade. The busiest restaurant someone searching in Edina is shown carries 3,358 reviews, and the busiest bar carries 4,120. Answering, in this set, has almost nothing to do with size.
The clearest split is between the sit-down trades and the counter trades. Among the 20 cafés, 20 coffee shops and 20 bakeries we read, the best repliers we found answered 3 of their last 10 — Honey & Rye, with 619 reviews, which turns up under all three of those trades, and Patisserie Margo with 280. Càphin Minneapolis - Linden Hills answered 1 of its last 10, and Hold The Wheat, with 466 reviews, also answered 1. Nobody in those three trades had answered more than 3 of their most recent 10. These are not quiet businesses: the median café someone searching in Edina sees has 117 reviews, the median coffee shop 121, the median bakery 280, and the most-reviewed of them carries 1,913.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 486.5 | 4.7 | Town Hall Station | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 117 | 4.65 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 121 | 4.7 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 |
| Bars | 1003 | 4.6 | Tavern on France | 7 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 280 | 4.7 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 37 | 4.9 | Cousins Maine Lobster Minneapolis (Food Truck) | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Edina, MN
Twenty barbershops were read around Edina, and not one of them had replied to any of its most recent reviews. The review counts are not small either. The three most-reviewed barbershops a customer searching in Edina is shown carry 681, 523 and 285 Google reviews, and the median barbershop in that set sits at 175. The median rating is 4.8. So the reviews are arriving in volume, they are good, and nothing is coming back the other way.
Nail salons in the same catchment work completely differently. Nail Bar & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 reviews and has 973 in total. Nails Image & Spa also answered 10 of its last 10, on 408 reviews. Kim's Nails & Spa answered 4 of its last 10, on 368. Nail salons also carry the most reviews of the three trades here, a median of 248 per business, on a median rating of 4.5.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 175 | 4.8 | — | |
| Hair salons | 85.5 | 4.8 | Salon Oriana | 9 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 248 | 4.5 | Nail Bar & Spa | 10 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in Edina, MN
Dermatology carries the deepest review files of anything in this group. Across the 20 practices someone searching in Edina is shown, the median is 250.5 Google reviews, and the three largest files hold 1516, 612 and 580. The practice answering the most of its recent reviews there, Dr.Gregory R. Hannon, had answered 5 of the last 10 on a file of 473 reviews.
Every other trade in this group has a business sitting at 10 of 10, and most of them are on the medical side. Skin Artisans at Edina Plastic Surgery had answered 10 of its last 10 on 524 reviews, and it turns up as the strongest replier in both med spas and plastic surgery. Beside it, Sono Bello Edina had answered 10 of 10 on 474, LIVskin Medspa | Laser 10 of 10 on 287, and Metropolitan Skin Clinic 9 of 10 on 463. IV therapy runs the thinnest files in the group, a median of 58.5 reviews, and still The DRIPBaR Edina had answered 10 of its last 10 on 248 and Aervita Integrative Medicine + Hyperbarics 10 of 10 on 157.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 131.5 | 4.85 | Decompress Massage Therapy | 10 of 10 |
| Massage | 129.5 | 4.9 | Decompress Massage Therapy | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 120 | 4.9 | Skin Artisans at Edina Plastic Surgery | 10 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 58.5 | 4.9 | The DRIPBaR Edina | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 250.5 | 4.85 | Dr.Gregory R. Hannon | 5 of 10 |
| Plastic surgery | 79.5 | 4.7 | Skin Artisans at Edina Plastic Surgery | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Edina, MN
Among the chiropractors someone searching in Edina is shown, the three with the most Google reviews are also the three answering the most of them. Nokomis Chiropractic and Wellness has 339 reviews and the owner replied to all 10 of its last 10. Dr. Brenda-Chiropractor has 291 and also answered 10 of its last 10. Chiropractic Health & Wellness Edina has 211 and answered 9 of its last 10. Those are the three largest review counts in the trade, and the same three names come back when you sort by replies instead.
Gyms are a different shape. We read 20 of each, and the median gym carries 104.5 reviews against 51 for the median chiropractor, with the three most-reviewed gyms sitting at 1,093, 839 and 640 — bigger numbers than anything in chiropractic around Edina. But the gym answering the most of its recent reviews, Train Your Way Fitness, has 172 reviews. In this trade the volume and the replying are not in the same hands. Star ratings say nothing useful either way here: the median rating is 4.9 in both trades, so a customer scanning the map sees a wall of near-identical stars and has to read something else to tell one from another.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 104.5 | 4.9 | Train Your Way Fitness | 10 of 10 |
| Chiropractors | 51 | 4.9 | Nokomis Chiropractic and Wellness | 10 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Edina, MN
Dentistry around Edina runs on deep review files. Across the 20 dental practices we read, the median carried 224 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed held 1,445, 1,367 and 516. Orthodontics is a smaller pool of writing: a median of 89 reviews across the 20 we read, with the three largest at 433, 316 and 298. Both trades sit at a median rating of 4.9, so the stars are not what separates one listing from another here.
The answering is. Dentistry on 77th replied to 10 of its last 10 reviews and holds 516. Grandview Center for Dentistry replied to 9 of its last 10 and holds 397. Southdale Dental Associates, with 1,367 reviews, replied to 5 of its last 10 — the largest review file among the dental practices that reply the most.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 224 | 4.9 | Dentistry on 77th | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 89 | 4.9 | Mint Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
Pets in Edina, MN
The three most-reviewed groomers a customer searching in Edina is shown carry 476, 407 and 391 Google reviews — files of a similar size — and the reply columns behind them are not similar at all. Pampered Pooch Playground answered 10 of its last 10 reviews against 407 in total. Woof Central answered 8 of its last 10, on 476. Bubbly Paws answered 3 of its last 10, on 391. Same shelf, three different habits.
Boarding around Edina overlaps with grooming at the top: Pampered Pooch Playground and Woof Central lead there too, joined by Dogtopia of Bloomington at 8 of its last 10 on 385 reviews. Boarding is the thinnest of the three trades by the middle of the pack — a median of 70.5 reviews across the 20 we read — while the single most-reviewed boarding listing in the set carries 1,127. Set those two figures side by side, 70.5 and 1,127, and the shape of the trade is easier to see than any label would make it.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 134 | 4.8 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 70.5 | 4.9 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 252.5 | 4.8 | Woodlake Veterinary Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Edina, MN
The twenty tattoo studios someone searching in Edina is shown carry a median star rating of 5. No other trade measured around this town has a median that high: dentists, med spas and gyms sit at 4.9, barbershops and hair salons at 4.8, restaurants at 4.7, nail salons at 4.5. In tattoo work here, the star rating is not sorting anybody.
What does separate these studios is how much has been written about them. The median studio carries 77 Google reviews. The three most-reviewed hold 617, 477 and 380. Those same three studios are the ones that show up in our reading as the strongest repliers in the trade.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 77 | 5 | Rowan Southdale Center | 10 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 Edina, 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. Edina, MN has a population of 53,125 and a median household income of $129,225 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.