Food & drink in Lake Zurich, IL

We read 120 businesses across 6 trades — the businesses someone searching in Lake Zurich, IL is shown — and recorded what their Google reviews look like.

Measured 2026-09-24 from public Google listings. Ranked on reply behaviour, never on star rating.

Among the 20 coffee shops someone searching in Lake Zurich, IL is shown, not one had answered any of its recent reviews. The trade is not short of reviews to answer. The median coffee shop we read carries 131 Google reviews over its listing's life, and the most-reviewed carries 1,446. The zero is about the recent ones: on those, no owner had written back.

The restaurants we read look different. Beelow's Steakhouse answered 9 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing of 2,577. LAGO Italian Steakhouse answered 7 of 10 on a listing of 1,023, and The Hungry Mule 6 of 10 on a listing of 756. Beelow's Steakhouse and The Hungry Mule appear among both the restaurants and the food trucks named here. The food-truck search also returned BBQ'd Productions Bar & Grill, which answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing of 1,206. The median food truck we read carries 396 reviews; the median restaurant carries 313.5.

Among the bars, Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar answered 9 of its last 10 on a listing of 1,241, and Consume 8 of 10 on a listing of 658; Bobbers Lake Zurich answered 2 of 10. Among the bakeries, Stompin' Grounds Cafe answered 7 of its last 10 and Ambrosia Euro American Pâtisserie 4 of 10. The median bakery we read carries 149 reviews and a 4.75 rating, and the most-reviewed carries 539. Among the cafés, the one business we can name as answering is Koffee Kup Diner, which replied to 1 of its last 10, on a listing of 533.

For comparison, the benchmark measured here is 79%: the share of recent reviews a typical measured business answered, measured across 55 businesses in this catchment drawn from any trade, not food and drink alone.

What to do about it

If you run a coffee shop, the number to change is zero. Start with your next 10 reviews and reply to every one, the five-star ones included, in your own words and about what the reviewer actually said. For restaurants, bars, bakeries and food trucks, the owners named above show what a reply rate looks like in practice: 10 of 10 at BBQ'd Productions Bar & Grill, 9 of 10 at Beelow's Steakhouse and at Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar, 7 of 10 at Stompin' Grounds Cafe.

Check your own listing the way we did: open your last 10 reviews and count how many carry a reply from you. Set a figure and hold to it. You do not write the review, but you do write the reply. Keep it short and specific, and never offer anything in exchange for a review.

Restaurants

20 read · median 313.5 reviews · median rating 4.6

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Beelow's Steakhouse9 of 1025774.6
2LAGO Italian Steakhouse7 of 1010234.4
3The Hungry Mule6 of 107564.5

Cafés

20 read · median 194.5 reviews · median rating 4.699999999999999

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Koffee Kup Diner1 of 105334.6

Coffee shops

20 read · median 131 reviews · median rating 4.6

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

20 read · median 268 reviews · median rating 4.5

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar9 of 1012414.6
2Consume8 of 106584.5
3Bobbers Lake Zurich2 of 107214.4

Bakeries

20 read · median 149 reviews · median rating 4.75

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Stompin' Grounds Cafe7 of 102754.5
2Ambrosia Euro American Pâtisserie4 of 103304.6

Food trucks

20 read · median 396 reviews · median rating 4.6

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1BBQ'd Productions Bar & Grill10 of 1012064.4
2Beelow's Steakhouse9 of 1025774.6
3The Hungry Mule6 of 107564.5
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What food & drink businesses around Lake Zurich, IL do with their reviews
TradeMedian reviewsBest answeredYou
Restaurants313.59 of 10the audit fills this in
Cafés194.51 of 10the audit fills this in
Coffee shops131nobody answeredthe audit fills this in
Bars2689 of 10the audit fills this in
Bakeries1497 of 10the audit fills this in
Food trucks39610 of 10the audit fills this in
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