None of the 20 barbershops we read had answered any of their recent reviews. Not one of them. It is not for lack of material: the median review count across those 20 is 83, and the three most-reviewed hold 316, 304 and 292.
Sitting in the same group, the nail salons someone searching around Hopkins is shown include Nail Bar & Spa, which answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 973 reviews, and Mainstreet Nails in Hopkins, also 10 of its last 10, with 722. Among the hair salons, Hour Rose Salon answered 9 of its last 10 against a listing of 103 reviews, and Kuva Texa-Tonka answered 6 of its last 10 with 109. Three trades under one group heading, and the group heading is not what explains them.
The size of a review file does not explain it either. The bars we read carry a median of 799 reviews, the deepest median of the 21 trades here, and the three biggest hold 3723, 3544 and 2753; Park Tavern answered 10 of its last 10. Massage runs at a median of 35, and Cove Bodywork answered 10 of its last 10 with 94 reviews behind it. Dentists have the files you would expect, a median of 183 with 918, 903 and 859 at the top. Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka answered 9 of its last 10. Tonka Smiles, holding 859 reviews, answered 1 of its last 10.
Among the 55 businesses we measured for someone searching in Hopkins, the typical one had answered 73% of its recent reviews. We read 420 businesses in all, spread over six groups. In each trade we can name at most three, and they are the ones answering the most, so everything named above is the top of a list rather than the middle of it.
What to do about it
If your listing carries hundreds of reviews and none of them have a reply under them, do not start at the oldest. The reply counts on this page are drawn from each business's most recent reviews. The review totals beside them, 973 or 859, are the whole listing. Those are two different numbers, and the recent one is the smaller job.
Answer the ones that praise you as well as the ones that do not, and write each reply so it could only sit under the review it sits under, naming the thing that person actually mentioned, in the words you would use out loud. Then decide whether you are catching up or keeping up. A one-off clear-out covers the reviews that exist today; the recent ten is a window that keeps moving, so the only version that holds is picking up the new one when it arrives.
Food & drink in Hopkins, MN
Bars show the highest median review count of the six food and drink trades here: 799 Google reviews across the 20 we read, with the three most-reviewed listings at 3,723, 3,544 and 2,753. Park Tavern, whose listing holds 3,544 reviews, answered 10 of its last 10. Applebee's Grill + Bar, at 2,289 reviews, answered 9 of its last 10. Across the 55 businesses we measured in the set someone searching around Hopkins is shown, a typical one answered 73% of its recent reviews.
Among coffee shops, the median is 423 reviews across the 20 we read, and the most-reviewed listing holds 1,418. The businesses answering the most of their recent reviews there are YoYo Donuts, Coffee and Ice Cream Bar, which answered 4 of its last 10, and Angel Food Bakery & Coffee Bar, which answered 2 of its last 10. That list is ordered by how much a business answers, so those two sit at the top of the trade as we read it.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 659.5 | 4.6 | The Block Food & Drink - St. Louis Park | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 624 | 4.6 | Pub 819 | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 423 | 4.55 | YoYo Donuts, Coffee and Ice Cream Bar | 4 of 10 |
| Bars | 799 | 4.65 | Park Tavern | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 466 | 4.5 | Driskill's Downtown Market | 9 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 96 | 4.8 | Two Men and a Truck Moving and Storage | 8 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Hopkins, MN
Not one of the 20 barbershops we read had answered any of its recent reviews. That is the whole trade as we read it, with a median of 83 Google reviews per business and the three most-reviewed listings holding 316, 304 and 292. The median rating across those 20 is 4.7, and a trade median is one figure for the whole set — it does not tell you which listing is which.
Nail salons read very differently on the names we can show. Nail Bar & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 reviews and holds 973 on its listing. Mainstreet Nails in Hopkins also answered 10 of its last 10, with 722. T-luxe Nails answered 9 of its last 10, with 602. Those are the businesses answering the most of the 20 nail salons we read; the median across that trade is 337.5 reviews and the three biggest listings hold 1291, 973 and 722. We cannot tell you how the rest of the twenty behave.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 83 | 4.7 | — | |
| Hair salons | 43 | 4.9 | Hour Rose Salon | 9 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 337.5 | 4.6 | Nail Bar & Spa | 10 of 10 |
Spa & aesthetics in Hopkins, MN
Among the 20 dermatology listings we read around Hopkins, the three most-reviewed hold 1516, 253 and 160 Google reviews, while the median across the twenty is 42. Med spas sit tighter: 287, 209 and 166 at the top, with a median of 46. Day spas carry the highest median of the five trades on this page at 101.5, and their three biggest listings hold 927, 535 and 325; massage carries the lowest median here at 35. On stars, the median for the 20 med spas we read is 5, day spas, massage and weight-loss clinics are at 4.9, and dermatology at 4.7.
Three businesses show up in more than one of these trades, because a searcher looking at one category is shown some of the same places in the next. Decompress Massage Therapy answered 10 of its last 10 reviews and holds 535, and it is listed among the businesses answering the most in both day spas and massage. LIVskin Medspa | Laser, at 287 reviews, also answered 10 of its last 10, and appears in both day spas and med spas. The Skin Scene Aesthetics answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 160 reviews, in both med spas and dermatology.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 101.5 | 4.9 | Decompress Massage Therapy | 10 of 10 |
| Massage | 35 | 4.9 | Decompress Massage Therapy | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 46 | 5 | LIVskin Medspa | Laser | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 82.5 | 4.9 | AFC Urgent Care Hopkins | 9 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 42 | 4.7 | The Skin Scene Aesthetics | 9 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Hopkins, MN
Two gym listings in this catchment carry 640 and 538 Google reviews. The median across the 20 gyms we read is 61.5. Those are whole-listing totals rather than a recent window, and all of them sit in the same set a customer searching around Hopkins is shown, which is a catchment and not a register of what sits inside the city limits.
Reply counts are a separate measure, drawn from each business's most recent reviews. Among the gyms, Train Your Way Fitness answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 172 reviews. Status Strength and Fitness answered 2 of its last 10, on a listing holding 171 reviews. We are shown only the gyms answering the most of their recent reviews, so neither figure describes the rest of the twenty we read.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 61.5 | 4.9 | Train Your Way Fitness | 10 of 10 |
| Chiropractors | 84 | 4.9 | Redbird Wellness | 10 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Hopkins, MN
Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka answered 9 of its last 10 reviews, and it sits at the top of both lists in this group — the dentists we read and the orthodontists we read overlap, and one business can lead both. Among the 20 dentists we read, the businesses answering the most also include Tonka Smiles, at 1 of its last 10 on a listing holding 859 reviews, and Ruby Dental, at 1 of its last 10 on 444.
The 20 orthodontists we read include Family Orthodontics at 7 of its last 10, on 298 reviews, and Tonka Smiles again at 1 of its last 10. Two different windows are in play and they are not the same thing: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals describe the whole listing. The three most-reviewed orthodontist listings hold 903, 859 and 716 reviews, against a median of 112 across the 20. For the dentists the median is 183, and the three biggest hold 918, 903 and 859.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 183 | 4.9 | Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka | 9 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 112 | 4.9 | Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka | 9 of 10 |
Pets in Hopkins, MN
Pampered Pooch Playground answered 10 of its most recent 10 reviews, and it is the business answering the most of its recent reviews in two of the three sets here: pet grooming and pet boarding both. Its listing carries 407 Google reviews. Also among the grooming businesses answering the most, Bubbly Paws answered 3 of its most recent 10, on a listing of 391 reviews. Adore Dog Salon holds 515 Google reviews and answered 1 of its most recent 10.
On the veterinary side of what someone searching around Hopkins is shown, Oak Knoll Animal Hospital answered 10 of its most recent 10, with 493 Google reviews on its listing, and Westgate Pet Clinic answered 9 of its most recent 10, with 471. All Paws Animal Hospital, at 423 reviews, answered 9 of its most recent 10, and it appears among the businesses answering the most in both the veterinary set and pet boarding.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 125 | 4.7 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 125 | 4.8 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 133 | 4.8 | Oak Knoll Animal Hospital | 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 Hopkins, 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. Hopkins, MN has a population of 18,696 and a median household income of $71,170 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.