Twenty barbershops were read in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is not a thin trade. The median barbershop in that set carries 118.5 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 970, 569 and 489. The median rating across the twenty is 4.85, which is a single figure for the whole set and does not tell you which listing is which.
Nail salons sit in the same group and the numbers read differently. Nail Bar & Spa, the business answering the most, answered 10 of its last 10, against a listing of 973 reviews, and the median nail salon in that set carries 401.5. In hair salons the two businesses answering the most are The Beauty Lounge Minneapolis, which answered 1 of its last 10 with 207 reviews on the listing, and Salon Moda, which answered 1 of its last 10 with 150. The median hair salon carries 81.5 reviews.
The median restaurant in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown carries 1023 reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 4629, 3356 and 3126. The Block Food & Drink - St. Louis Park answered 10 of its last 10 with 2488 reviews. Among bars, Punch Bowl Social answered 10 of its last 10 with 2810, and the most-reviewed bar listing carries 12019. Honey & Rye answered 3 of its last 10 with 619. Angel Food Bakery & Coffee Bar answered 2 of its last 10 with 901. Isles Bun & Coffee answered 7 of its last 10 with 1901.
The practice trades carry much shorter files. The median weight-loss clinic in this catchment carries 61 reviews, and Minneapolis Health Clinic answered 10 of its last 10 with 130, Lite Medical PLLC 10 of its last 10 with 110. Dentists are deeper at a median of 229, with Bassett Creek Dental answering 9 of its last 10 against 642 reviews. Dermatology's median is 44. We measured 55 of the businesses someone searching in St. Louis Park is shown; a typical one answered 60% of its recent reviews. 480 businesses were read in total for this page.
What to do about it
Two different windows are in play here, and it is worth keeping them apart. The review counts are the whole listing; the reply counts are drawn only from each business's most recent reviews. So a bakery with a median of 553 reviews behind it is not being asked to write 553 replies. The recent handful is what our count reads, and that is where a run of silence shows up.
If you cut hair, the barbershop finding is the plain one: of the twenty read, none had answered any of their recent reviews, which makes anything written back unusual in that set. Take the most recent ten and work backwards. Write each in your own words rather than one line pasted under all of them, and name the thing the customer actually mentioned. A trade median tells a reader nothing about which listing is which; the words under a review are the only part that is yours. Then keep the habit going, because catching up once and stopping leaves you where you started.
Food & drink in St. Louis Park, MN
Among the 20 coffee shops we read, the two businesses answering the most of their recent reviews are Honey & Rye, at 3 of its last 10, and Angel Food Bakery & Coffee Bar, at 2 of its last 10. Those are the top of that list, not the bottom of it. Among the 20 cafes we read, the business answering the most is Hold The Wheat, at 1 of its last 10, on a listing holding 466 reviews. Separately, across the 55 businesses we measured in the set someone searching in St. Louis Park is shown, a typical one answered 60% of its recent reviews.
The files underneath are deep. The 20 restaurants we read carry a median of 1023 Google reviews each, and the three most-reviewed hold 4629, 3356 and 3126. The 20 bars we read sit at a median of 937.5, with the largest listing at 12019. Reply counts on that scale are still counted ten at a time, because they are drawn from each business's most recent reviews. The Block Food & Drink - St. Louis Park answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing of 2488 reviews. Punch Bowl Social answered 10 of its last 10, on 2810. Bunny's Bar & Grill answered 6 of its last 10; its listing holds 3723.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 1023 | 4.65 | The Block Food & Drink - St. Louis Park | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 145 | 4.8 | Hold The Wheat | 1 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 205 | 4.75 | Honey & Rye | 3 of 10 |
| Bars | 937.5 | 4.7 | Punch Bowl Social | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 553 | 4.7 | Isles Bun & Coffee | 7 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 37.5 | 4.8 | Bad Rooster Food Truck | 3 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in St. Louis Park, MN
Twenty barbershops were read in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is not a quiet corner of the market going unnoticed. The median barbershop in that group carries 118.5 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed listings hold 970, 569 and 489. Two different windows are in play there: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while those totals are the whole listing.
Twenty nail salons were read as well, and the counts there look different. Two of the businesses answering the most are Nail Bar & Spa, which answered 10 of its last 10 against a listing of 973 reviews, and T-luxe Nails, which answered 9 of its last 10 against 602. Nail salons also hold the deepest files of the three trades on this page, a median of 401.5 reviews, against 118.5 for barbershops and 81.5 for hair salons, with the three biggest nail listings at 1542, 1291 and 973.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 118.5 | 4.85 | — | |
| Hair salons | 81.5 | 4.9 | The Beauty Lounge Minneapolis | 1 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 401.5 | 4.55 | Nail Bar & Spa | 10 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in St. Louis Park, MN
Of the 20 day spas we read in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, the three most-reviewed carry 927, 792 and 523 Google reviews. The day spa answering the most of its recent reviews is Emerald City Day Spa, which answered 3 of its last 10 and has 792 reviews on its listing. watershed spa, with 470 reviews, answered 1 of its last 10. The median day spa in that set of 20 holds 87 reviews, and the median rating is 4.9.
Among the 20 massage listings we read, DK Diamond Nails answered 10 of its last 10 and has 563 reviews. Jade Massage And Spa answered 7 of its last 10 with 196 reviews, and Amazing Massage answered 7 of its last 10 with 74. The median massage listing there holds 53 reviews, and the median rating is 4.6.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 87 | 4.9 | Emerald City Day Spa | 3 of 10 |
| Massage | 53 | 4.6 | DK Diamond Nails | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 55.5 | 4.9 | Eternal Beauty & Wellness | 9 of 10 |
| IV therapy | 67 | 5 | Eternal Beauty & Wellness | 9 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 61 | 4.9 | Minneapolis Health Clinic | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 44 | 4.55 | Minneapolis Anti-Aging & Skin Clinic | 3 of 10 |
| Plastic surgery | 31 | 4.45 | Jill S. Melicher, M.D. | 10 of 10 |
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Fitness & wellness in St. Louis Park, MN
Lyn Lake Chiropractic carries 595 Google reviews and answered 10 of its last 10. The Glen Chiropractic & Acupuncture carries 222 reviews and answered 9 of its last 10. Clear Health and Wellness carries 308 reviews and answered 3 of its last 10. Those are the chiropractors answering the most of their recent reviews out of the 20 we read, and what the rest of that twenty do is not something these numbers can tell you.
The files underneath are deep. The median chiropractor in that set of 20 has 146 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 595, 534 and 423. Among the 20 gyms we read the median is 60, and the three most-reviewed hold 640, 354 and 177. The middle of one set sits at 146 and the middle of the other at 60, while the top of each runs into the hundreds either way.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 60 | 4.9 | Train Your Way Fitness | 10 of 10 |
| Chiropractors | 146 | 4.9 | Lyn Lake Chiropractic | 10 of 10 |
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Dental & orthodontics in St. Louis Park, MN
Mint Orthodontics answered all 10 of its most recent reviews, and its listing carries 272 Google reviews in total. Family Orthodontics answered 7 of its last 10, with 298 reviews on its listing. Those are the two businesses answering the most out of the 20 orthodontists we read in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, so they tell you what the top of this group looks like and nothing about the ones we did not name.
The two trades in this group are built on very different amounts of writing. The median dentist listing here holds 229 Google reviews; the median orthodontist listing holds 58. The three most-reviewed dentist listings carry 1198, 813 and 642 reviews. The three most-reviewed orthodontist listings carry 671, 298 and 272. A median sits in the middle of the 20 we read in each trade, so neither of those top-three rows describes a typical listing in its own trade.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 229 | 4.9 | Bassett Creek Dental | 9 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 58 | 4.95 | Mint Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
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Pets in St. Louis Park, MN
Pampered Pooch Playground answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, and it turns up that way twice — once among the groomers someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, and once among the boarding businesses. Its listing carries 407 reviews. The other two groomers answering the most are Bubbly Paws, which answered 3 of its last 10 and carries 391 reviews, and Adore Dog Salon, which answered 1 of its last 10 and carries 515 reviews. Those three are the ones answering the most out of the 20 groomers we read; the rest of the twenty we have not named.
The vets carry the deepest review files of the three pet trades here. Across the 20 we read the median is 330 Google reviews, against 136.5 for grooming and 116 for boarding, and the three most-reviewed vet listings hold 1704, 902 and 751. Oak Knoll Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10, with 493 reviews on its listing. Lake Harriet Veterinary answered 6 of its last 10 and carries 902. Animal Humane Society Pet Clinic answered 6 of its last 10 and carries 751.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 136.5 | 4.7 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 116 | 4.8 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 330 | 4.8 | Oak Knoll Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in St. Louis Park, MN
Ace Tattoo & Piercing carries 1914 Google reviews and answered 1 of its last 10. Minneapolis Tattoo Shop carries 542 and answered 9 of its last 10. Sacred Siren Parlor carries 635 and answered 3 of its last 10. Those are two different measurements sitting side by side, and it is worth separating them: the review count is the whole listing, while the reply count is drawn only from that business's most recent reviews.
We read 20 tattoo studios in the set someone searching around St. Louis Park is shown, and the median one holds 177 reviews. The three most-reviewed of them hold 1914, 1204 and 635. The median rating across the 20 is 4.9, and a median is one figure for the whole set: it does not tell you which listing is which. Nothing here is ordered by stars in any case.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 177 | 4.9 | Minneapolis Tattoo Shop | 9 of 10 |
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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 St. Louis Park, 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. St. Louis Park, MN has a population of 49,541 and a median household income of $100,250 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.