Two of the trades we read had not a single business answering. None of the 20 coffee shops in the set someone searching around Savage is shown had replied to any of their recent reviews, and these are not thin listings — the median coffee shop holds 255 Google reviews, and the three largest files hold 1,259, 920 and 838. Barbershops came back the same way: none of the 20 we read had answered any of their recent reviews, on a median of 107 reviews and a median rating of 4.9.
Elsewhere in the same catchment the picture is different business by business. Among veterinarians, Burnsville Parkway Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 with a file of 477 reviews, and Gentle Doctor Veterinary Clinic answered 10 of its last 10 with 378. In pet boarding, Camp Bow Wow Burnsville answered 10 of its last 10 with 536. Among dentists, Lake Ridge Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 with 561 reviews and Oak Ridge Dental answered 10 of its last 10 with 486.
The size of a review file tells you nothing about whether anyone writes back under it. Restaurants around Savage carry a median of 934.5 reviews and bars a median of 1,258; the restaurant answering the most of its recent reviews, Whiskey Inferno Meat House & Craft Bar, answered 2 of its last 10, on a listing of 1,928. Food trucks carry a median of 36 reviews, and there The Savage Tap answered 10 of its last 10 on a file of 112, with Mi Tierra Taqueria Food Truck at 9 of its last 10 on 282.
A typical business among the 40 we measured in what a searcher in Savage is shown answered 82% of its recent reviews. That figure sits inside a wider read of 420 businesses across every trade on this page. Savage has a population of 32,706 and a median household income of $122,646.
What to do about it
Start by separating two numbers that look like one. The reply counts here are drawn from each business's most recent reviews; the review totals — 255 for the median coffee shop, 561 under Lake Ridge Dental Care — are the whole listing. So a file with hundreds in it can still have nothing written under the newest ones, which is exactly what the coffee shops and barbershops we read show.
If your own listing looks like that, work backwards from the newest review and stop at ten. Ten is the window the reply counts on this page are drawn from, and it is a fixed number rather than an open-ended pile. Answer the five-star ones as well as the difficult ones — a review that gets no reply reads no differently whichever it was. Write each one in your own words, naming the thing the customer actually mentioned; a reply that would fit under any review on any listing is the one worth rewriting. Then keep the habit, because a caught-up listing goes quiet again on its own.
Food & drink in Savage, MN
We read twenty coffee shops in the set someone searching around Savage is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is the only trade in this group where the data can say something about every business we looked at, and what it says is the same for all twenty. The three most-reviewed coffee listings in that set carry 1,259, 920 and 838 Google reviews — whole-listing counts, not recent ones.
Cafés, read as their own trade, look different in the parts we can see. Jensen's Cafe answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 3,405 reviews. Casa Deli Restaurant answered 6 of its last 10, on 965. Those are the two answering the most of the twenty cafés we read; the rest of the twenty we did not name, and we know nothing about how they reply.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 934.5 | 4.6 | Whiskey Inferno Meat House & Craft Bar | 2 of 10 |
| Cafés | 256.5 | 4.6 | Jensen's Cafe | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 255 | 4.6 | — | |
| Bars | 1258 | 4.3 | Whiskey Inferno Meat House & Craft Bar | 2 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 116.5 | 4.65 | Hy-Vee | 3 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 36 | 4.65 | The Savage Tap | 10 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Savage, MN
Twenty barbershops were read in the set someone searching in Savage is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is not a shortage of material to work with. The three most-reviewed of those listings hold 816, 550 and 490 Google reviews, and the median across the twenty is 107. The two windows are different — the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while 816 and 107 are whole-listing totals — but on the recent ones, nothing came back from any of the twenty we read. Coffee shops were the only other trade around Savage where that was true of every business we read.
The hair salons we read carry a median of 85 reviews, and the three largest files among them hold 1,659, 961 and 640. One business is named here: Parlour 9 Salon & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 324 reviews. That list only ever names the businesses answering the most, so a single name is not a statement about the rest of the twenty — we simply did not name them, and nothing here says what they did.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 107 | 4.9 | — | |
| Hair salons | 85 | 4.8 | Parlour 9 Salon & Spa | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 172.5 | 4.6 | T- Luxe Nails & Spa | 10 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in Savage, MN
SlimGevity carries 1,341 Google reviews and answered 10 of its last 10 — the largest review count of any business named here, with replies under all of the most recent ones. It sits among the weight-loss clinics, where we read 20 listings, the median holds 44 reviews, and the next two biggest files hold 274 and 162.
Among the med spas, SanaVitta Wellness Center & Medspa answered 10 of its last 10 on a listing of 209 reviews. Refinery Skin Clinic answered 10 of its last 10 on 180. Valley Skin & Medspa answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 623. That last name turns up twice on this page — it is also first among the day spas answering the most — which is a reminder that this is the set someone searching around Savage is shown, not a register of businesses sorted neatly into one trade each.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 87 | 4.9 | Valley Skin & Medspa | 9 of 10 |
| Massage | 34 | 4.75 | Eden Asian Massage | 9 of 10 |
| Med spas | 73 | 5 | SanaVitta Wellness Center & Medspa | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 44 | 5 | SlimGevity | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Savage, MN
Of the 20 gyms we read in the set someone searching around Savage is shown, the one answering the most of its recent reviews is Conquer Ninja Gyms - Burnsville, which answered 1 of its last 10. That listing carries 267 reviews. The three most-reviewed gyms in the set hold 729, 655 and 404 reviews, and the median across the 20 is 100.5.
Renew Chiropractic and Wellness answered 8 of its last 10, on a listing holding 325 reviews. Across the 20 chiropractors we read, the median listing holds 111 reviews, and the three largest hold 387, 347 and 325. Two different windows are in play in those sentences and they are not the same measurement: the answered counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts are the whole listing.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 100.5 | 4.65 | Conquer Ninja Gyms - Burnsville | 1 of 10 |
| Chiropractors | 111 | 5 | Renew Chiropractic and Wellness | 8 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Savage, MN
Lake Ridge Dental Care and Oak Ridge Dental turn up twice. Each answered 10 of its last 10 reviews in the dentist reading, and each appears again among the businesses answering the most in the orthodontist reading — two distinct businesses at the top of both. Riverside Valley Dental Care answered 9 of its last 10, on a listing carrying 522 reviews. Those are the businesses we can describe here; the rest of the twenty in each reading are ones we did not name.
The two trades do not look alike on depth. We read 20 dentists and 20 orthodontists. The median dentist listing in this set carries 241 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 1157, 561 and 522. For orthodontists the median is 93.5, with the three most-reviewed at 562, 546 and 486. The two windows are worth keeping apart: those review counts are whole listings, while the answered-of-ten counts are drawn only from each business's most recent reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 241 | 4.8 | Lake Ridge Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 93.5 | 5 | Lake Ridge Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
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Pets in Savage, MN
Pet grooming's three most-reviewed listings in this catchment hold 1039, 536 and 421 Google reviews. The median grooming business among the 20 we read holds 68.5. Those are whole-listing counts, covering everything on the listing, and they describe a set where a handful of files are many times the size of the one in the middle.
Reply behaviour is measured separately, and only from each business's most recent reviews. We name only the businesses answering the most of those, so these figures say nothing about the rest of the twenty we read in each trade. In grooming, Camp Bow Wow Burnsville answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 536 reviews. Pet Supplies Plus Burnsville answered 10 of its last 10, with 421. Barks & Bubbles answered 10 of its last 10, with 248.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 68.5 | 4.75 | Camp Bow Wow Burnsville | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 122 | 4.75 | Camp Bow Wow Burnsville | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 229.5 | 4.7 | Burnsville Parkway Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Savage, MN
One tattoo listing in the set someone searching around Savage is shown holds 2260 Google reviews. The next two hold 333 and 239. The median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 47, so those three figures describe three listings and not the trade behind them.
Of those 20, the two answering the most of their recent reviews are Stay Tru Tattoo and The Canvas Tattoo Studio. Stay Tru Tattoo answered 9 of its last 10, and its listing carries 239 reviews. The Canvas Tattoo Studio answered 1 of its last 10, and its listing carries 333. The two windows are not the same: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing. We have not named the rest of the twenty we read, and their reply counts are not on this page.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 47 | 4.9 | Stay Tru Tattoo | 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 Savage, 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. Savage, MN has a population of 32,706 and a median household income of $122,646 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.