Not one of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of its recent reviews. It is the only trade on this page where that is true of every business we read. The median review count across those 20 is 75.5, and the three most-reviewed listings hold 538, 304 and 283 reviews, so the material is there; nothing has been written back under the recent ones.
Among the 20 chiropractors we read, the businesses answering the most are Connection Chiropractic, which answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing with 216 reviews, The Glen Chiropractic & Acupuncture, 9 of its last 10 with 222, and HealthSource Chiropractic of Minnetonka, 8 of its last 10 with 236. Two trades, one group, and the picture in each is nothing like the other.
Review files are not the same size from trade to trade. The median is 1349 reviews for bars and 1060.5 for restaurants; for massage it is 36 and for food trucks 53. Answering turns up at both ends of that. Pub 819 answered 10 of its last 10 with 2434 reviews on its listing, and The Original Pancake House Minnetonka answered 10 of its last 10 with 3508. At the other end, Integrative Massage Minnetonka answered 10 of its last 10 with 75.
Among the 53 businesses we measured for someone searching in Minnetonka, the typical one had answered 80% of its recent reviews. That is one figure for the measured set, and it does not say which trades it is drawn from. Among nail salons, the three answering the most each answered 10 of their last 10. Among dentists, Lake Minnetonka Dental answered 10 of its last 10 with 771 reviews, and Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka answered 9 of its last 10 with 903. Two different windows are at work in all of this: the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts are the whole listing.
What to do about it
The reply counts on this page are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, not from the whole file. So an owner staring at a listing with hundreds of reviews is not looking at hundreds of replies to write. The recent ones are the job, and that is true whether the trade's median sits at 36 reviews or at 1349. Work backwards from the newest and stop when you reach the end of the recent ones.
Answer the good ones as well as the difficult ones, and write each reply differently. A reply that could be pasted under any review is a reply that says nothing specific about the visit it is answering. And note that catching up once and keeping up are two different pieces of work: the counts here move as new reviews arrive, which is why a trade where several businesses are at 10 of their last 10 stays there only by doing a small thing repeatedly. Whichever group you are in, the group page has the figures for your own trade.
Food & drink in Minnetonka, MN
The 20 bars we read in the set someone searching around Minnetonka is shown have a median of 1349 Google reviews. The 20 food trucks we read have a median of 53. Both sit inside the same food and drink group, read the same way. The restaurants we read have a median of 1060.5, and the three most-reviewed listings among them hold 4565, 3508 and 2953 reviews. Coffee shops come in at a median of 190, cafes and bakeries at 215.
Depth like that says nothing about whether anyone writes back, and the reply counts are a separate read. The Original Pancake House Minnetonka answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing holding 3508. Pub 819 answered 10 of its last 10, on 2434. Bunny's Bar & Grill answered 6 of its last 10, on 3723. Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que answered 9 of its last 10, on 2022, and it turns up among the businesses answering the most in more than one of these trades.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 1060.5 | 4.6 | The Original Pancake House Minnetonka | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 215 | 4.5 | Duke's on 7 | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 190 | 4.6 | Depot Coffee House | 10 of 10 |
| Bars | 1349 | 4.4 | Pub 819 | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 215 | 4.6 | Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que | 9 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 53 | 4.8 | Duke's on 7 | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Minnetonka, MN
Three nail salons answered every one of their last 10 reviews. Nail Bar & Spa carries 973 reviews on its listing, Mainstreet Nails in Hopkins 722, and Bliss Nails Wayzata 516. Those two kinds of number come from different places: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing. Across the 20 nail salons we read, the median listing holds 233 reviews.
The hair salons and barbershops we read hold thinner files. The median is 62.5 reviews across the 20 hair salons and 63.5 across the 20 barbershops, and the three most-reviewed listings come in at 856, 234 and 197 for hair salons and 681, 304 and 219 for barbershops. Among the hair salons, Lavish Salon Wayzata answered 8 of its last 10 and holds 197 reviews. Bay Salon & Boutique answered 4 of its last 10 and holds 234. Among the 20 barbershops we read, the one answering the most of its recent reviews is All Pro Sports Barbershop, at 5 of its last 10, with 166 reviews on its listing. We list only the businesses answering the most, so the rest of the twenty we read in each trade are not described here either way.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 63.5 | 4.8 | All Pro Sports Barbershop | 5 of 10 |
| Hair salons | 62.5 | 4.9 | Lavish Salon Wayzata | 8 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 233 | 4.7 | Nail Bar & Spa | 10 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in Minnetonka, MN
MK Aesthetics comes back as the top replier in three of the seven trades in this group — massage, med spas and IV therapy — the same 332-review listing, answering 10 of its last 10 in each of them. That is worth understanding before anything else on this page: the sets someone searching around Minnetonka is shown overlap, one listing can sit in several of them at once, and the same name keeps appearing.
The files underneath these trades are nothing like each other. Dermatology carries the deepest median of the seven, at 238 Google reviews per business across the 20 we read, with its three most-reviewed listings at 1,516, 721 and 612. Massage carries the thinnest median of the seven, at 36, although its three most-reviewed listings hold 461, 332 and 207. Ecker Dermatology, PA answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing of 721 reviews. Integrative Massage Minnetonka answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing of 75.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 75 | 4.85 | Decompress Massage Therapy | 10 of 10 |
| Massage | 36 | 4.9 | MK Aesthetics | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 89.5 | 4.9 | MK Aesthetics | 10 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 78 | 5 | MK Aesthetics | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 52.5 | 5 | Gameday Men's Health Minnetonka, MN | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 238 | 4.8 | Ecker Dermatology, PA | 10 of 10 |
| Plastic surgery | 71.5 | 4.85 | Skin Artisans at Edina Plastic Surgery | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Minnetonka, MN
Not one of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of its recent reviews. Not one. Those listings are not empty either: the three most-reviewed gyms in the set someone searching around Minnetonka is shown hold 538, 304 and 283 Google reviews, and the median across the 20 we read is 75.5. That is a lot of customer writing sitting under a listing with nothing written back beneath the recent entries.
Chiropractors in the same catchment read differently, at least among the ones we can name. Connection Chiropractic answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 216 reviews. The Glen Chiropractic & Acupuncture answered 9 of its last 10, with 222 reviews. HealthSource Chiropractic of Minnetonka answered 8 of its last 10, with 236 reviews. We only ever list the businesses answering the most, so those three are what we know; the rest of the twenty we read are not described by them one way or the other. The median chiropractor listing in that set carries 126.5 reviews, and the three deepest carry 329, 236 and 222.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 75.5 | 4.75 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 126.5 | 5 | Connection Chiropractic | 10 of 10 |
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Dental & orthodontics in Minnetonka, MN
A dental listing in this catchment carries a median of 335 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed dental listings we read hold 918, 903 and 859 between them. The orthodontic read is a different shape on depth: a median of 112, with its three biggest listings at 819, 433 and 316. Both sets came from the same search, and both were read 20 businesses deep.
Of the dental practices we read, the ones answering the most of their recent reviews are these. Lake Minnetonka Dental answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 771 reviews. Blue Ridge Dental Center: Minnetonka answered 9 of its last 10, with 903. Glen Lake Family Dentistry answered 9 of its last 10. On the orthodontic side, Mint Orthodontics answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing holding 272 reviews. Glen Lake Family Dentistry turns up in that read as well, again at 9 of its last 10. Family Orthodontics answered 7 of its last 10. Those are the businesses answering the most; the rest of the twenty we read in each trade are not described by any of it.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 335 | 4.9 | Lake Minnetonka Dental | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 112 | 4.9 | Mint Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
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Pets in Minnetonka, MN
Pampered Pooch Playground answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, and it turns up twice in this group — once among the pet grooming businesses someone searching around Minnetonka is shown, and again among the boarding ones. Its listing carries 407 reviews. It is one business, counted in two trades, which is worth knowing before anyone reads the two lists as two separate stories.
In pet grooming we read 20 businesses. The three answering the most of their recent reviews are also the three carrying the most reviews we read there: 515, 407 and 391. The median grooming listing among those twenty holds 96.5 reviews. Bubbly Paws answered 3 of its last 10, on a listing of 391 reviews. Adore Dog Salon answered 1 of its last 10, on 515.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 96.5 | 4.75 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 135 | 4.8 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 289.5 | 4.75 | 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 Minnetonka, 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. Minnetonka, MN has a population of 53,256 and a median household income of $120,496 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.