Twenty barbershops were read around Plymouth and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. The same holds for the twenty gyms. Barbershops carry a median of 94 Google reviews and a median rating of 4.85, and the most-reviewed one someone searching here is shown holds 970; gyms run a median of 115.5 reviews at 4.7, with 891 at the top. Across the 56 businesses measured for reply behaviour in this town, the typical one had answered 81% of its recent reviews, so these two trades are not following a local habit. They are the exception to it. In total 480 businesses were read across the trades on this page, in a town of 79,526 people with a median household income of $133,865.
Nail salons look nothing like that. Nail Bar & Spa has answered 10 of its last 10 with 973 reviews on file, Bliss Nails Wayzata 10 of 10 with 516, and BH Nails & Spa 10 of 10 with 492. Massage shows the same pattern on far thinner files: that trade's median is 56.5 reviews, and New Oriental Massage has answered 10 of its last 10 with 143 reviews, Decompress Massage Therapy 10 of 10 with 104. A short review file is not what makes a trade go quiet.
Review depth swings hard from trade to trade. Bars carry a median of 1,522.5 reviews and the most-reviewed one in that set holds 12,019, while food trucks sit at a median of 49 and tattoo studios at 119, with 1,914 at the top of the tattoo list. Depth does not decide the reply behaviour either. Sunshine Factory Bar & Grill has answered 10 of its last 10 with 2,900 reviews behind it, Pub 42 9 of 10 with 3,656, and Pink Ivy Kitchen and Bar 2 of 10 with 1,908. Among dentists, Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics holds the deepest file of the twenty read, 2,128, and has answered 10 of its last 10.
Star ratings separate almost nothing here. Chiropractors run a median of 5, weight-loss clinics 4.95, and med spas, dermatology, dentists, orthodontists and massage all sit at 4.9. Restaurants are at 4.5 and bars at 4.35. Where two places a customer is weighing up both show 4.9, the stars have stopped saying anything, and the only thing still moving on the page is whether the owner said something back.
What to do about it
The reply column is the part of these numbers that still varies. Med spas, dermatology, dentists, orthodontists and massage all share a median rating of 4.9 around Plymouth, so a customer holding two of them side by side has nothing left to go on until they look at whether anyone answered.
If your file is deep, you are not going to work through all of it, and you do not need to. Bars here run a median of 1,522.5 reviews; Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics has 2,128 and has answered 10 of its last 10. The ten most recent are the ones sitting at the top of the listing, so start there and work backwards as time allows. Answer the good ones as well as the hard ones. Write each one yourself instead of pasting the same two lines, and treat it as something you keep up rather than something you catch up on once.
Food & drink in Plymouth, MN
Two bakeries around Plymouth sit on 619 and 658 Google reviews. Honey & Rye answered 3 of its last 10, and Dufner's Donuts & Deli answered 2 of its last 10, and those are the two strongest reply records among the 20 bakeries someone searching here is shown. The trade reads at a median of 198 reviews and a 4.75 median rating. Across the town, a typical measured business answered 81% of its recent reviews, measured on 56 businesses here.
Bars hold the deepest files by a distance. The three most-reviewed carry 12,019, 3,656 and 2,900 reviews, and the median across the 20 read is 1,522.5, against a 4.35 median rating. Sunshine Factory Bar & Grill answered 10 of its last 10 while carrying 2,900 reviews, and Pub 42 answered 9 of its last 10 on 3,656. Pink Ivy Kitchen and Bar answered 2 of its last 10 on 1,908. Restaurants read at a median of 691.5 reviews and a 4.5 median rating; Rock Elm Revival answered 1 of its last 10 on a file of 1,648.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 691.5 | 4.5 | Sunshine Factory Bar & Grill | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 193 | 4.65 | Broadway Bar & Pizza | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 151.5 | 4.65 | Kingdom Coffee | 8 of 10 |
| Bars | 1522.5 | 4.35 | Sunshine Factory Bar & Grill | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 198 | 4.75 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 49 | 4.8 | Broadway Bar & Pizza | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Plymouth, MN
Twenty barbershops were read in the set someone searching around Plymouth is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent Google reviews. This is not a case of there being nothing to answer. The most-reviewed barbershop in that set carries 970 reviews, the next 650 and the next 390, and the median barbershop holds 94. The reviews arrived in volume; nothing has been written back underneath them.
Nail salons in the same catchment read very differently. The three strongest repliers we found had each answered 10 of their last 10: Nail Bar & Spa, which holds 973 reviews, Bliss Nails Wayzata with 516, and BH Nails & Spa with 492. Across everything someone searching in Plymouth is shown, a typical measured business answered 81% of its recent reviews, from 56 businesses measured, so a trade at zero sits well outside the rest of what a searcher here sees.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 94 | 4.85 | — | |
| Hair salons | 94 | 4.8 | Fantastic Sams Cut & Color | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 229 | 4.65 | Nail Bar & Spa | 10 of 10 |
Spa & aesthetics in Plymouth, MN
Emerald City Day Spa carries 792 Google reviews and answered 3 of its last 10 — and of the 20 day spas we read, it is the one answering the most of its recent reviews. Massage looks nothing like that. New Oriental Massage answered 10 of its last 10 on 143 reviews, Decompress Massage Therapy answered 10 of 10 on 104, and Plymouth Creek Athletic Club answered 10 of 10 on 94. Both are trades where the customer books, pays and goes, and both sit in the same group on this page.
The medical end of the group answers too. Among the med spas someone searching around Plymouth is shown, Beautox Bar Medspa answered 9 of its last 10 across 458 reviews, Belladerm MedSpa 9 of 10 across 300, and Remedy Medical Aesthetics & Wellness 9 of 10 across 166. In IV therapy, Driip IV answered 10 of 10 on 281 reviews and IV Minnesota 10 of 10 on 198, while IV Nutrition answered 8 of 10 on 444. Dermatology holds the heaviest files here — a median of 253 reviews per business, with the three most-reviewed at 2,522, 1,516 and 1,244 — and Ecker Dermatology, PA answered 10 of its last 10 on 721 reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 175 | 4.8 | Emerald City Day Spa | 3 of 10 |
| Massage | 56.5 | 4.9 | New Oriental Massage | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 98 | 4.9 | Beautox Bar Medspa | 9 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 72.5 | 4.9 | Driip IV | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 53.5 | 4.95 | Lite Medical PLLC | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 253 | 4.9 | Ecker Dermatology, PA | 10 of 10 |
| Plastic surgery | 40 | 4.75 | Omni Cosmetic - Wayzata | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Plymouth, MN
Twenty gyms were read around Plymouth and not one of them had answered a single one of its recent reviews. That is not a thin-file problem. The three most-reviewed gyms a searcher here is shown carry 891, 518 and 482 Google reviews between them, and the median gym in the set has 115.5. Those are deep review files with nothing written back underneath them.
Chiropractors were read in the same number and look nothing like that. Minnesota Chiropractic and Rehabilitation answered 9 of its last 10 reviews and holds 195 in total. Bomberg Chiropractic answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 131. Experience Wellness Chiropractic has the largest file of the three at 299 reviews and answered 2 of its last 10. Three businesses in the same trade, with 9 of 10, 9 of 10 and 2 of 10 answered.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 115.5 | 4.7 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 66 | 5 | Minnesota Chiropractic and Rehabilitation | 9 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Plymouth, MN
Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics holds 2,128 Google reviews, the largest listing in the top three of both trades here, and answered 10 of its last 10. It is also the business answering the most of its recent reviews in both lists, dentists and orthodontists alike, and so is Smile Design Dentistry, with 727 reviews and 9 of its last 10 answered. One business can sit in both trades, and two of these do.
We measured 56 of the businesses someone searching in Plymouth is shown; a typical one answered 81% of its recent reviews. The median Google review count among the 20 dentists we read is 239; among the 20 orthodontists we read it is 144. The median rating is 4.9 in both. A median is one figure for a whole set, so it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing here is ordered by stars.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 239 | 4.9 | Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 144 | 4.9 | Camp Smile Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
Pets in Plymouth, MN
Adore Dog Salon has 515 Google reviews and answered 1 of its last 10. Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming Plymouth has 169 and answered 10 of 10. Among the groomers someone searching in Plymouth is shown, the median listing holds 85.5 reviews and the three deepest hold 860, 515 and 462, so the size of a file and whether anything is written back under it are two different things.
The veterinary listings sit somewhere else entirely on volume. The median vet a customer in Plymouth sees holds 309 reviews, against 85.5 for grooming and 90.5 for boarding, and the most-reviewed vet holds 1704. Two of them answered all of their last ten: Plymouth Heights Pet Hospital, on 635 reviews, and Rockford Road Animal Hospital, on 479.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 85.5 | 4.75 | Camp Bow Wow Plymouth | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 90.5 | 4.8 | Camp Bow Wow Plymouth | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 309 | 4.8 | Plymouth Heights Pet Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Plymouth, MN
The three most-reviewed tattoo listings someone searching around Plymouth is shown hold 1,914, 1,204 and 542 Google reviews. The median across the 20 studios we read is 119. Those are whole-listing counts, the full file under each business, and they describe a set where a few listings run far deeper than the middle of it.
Replies are counted a different way: we take each business's most recent reviews and count how many of them the owner answered. Minneapolis Tattoo Shop answered 9 of its last 10, on a listing holding 542 reviews. Ace Tattoo & Piercing answered 1 of its last 10, on a listing holding 1,914 reviews. Those two are the studios answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read, which means the rest of the twenty are not described by either figure.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 119 | 4.8 | Minneapolis Tattoo Shop | 9 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 Plymouth, 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. Plymouth, MN has a population of 79,526 and a median household income of $133,865 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.