Food & drink in Walnut Creek, CA

We read 100 businesses across 5 trades — the businesses someone searching in Walnut Creek, CA 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 bakeries someone searching in Walnut Creek, CA is shown, Boudin SF answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, Brioche de Paris 8 of 10 and A Sweet Affair Bakery 5 of 10. Brioche de Paris appears among both the bakeries and the coffee shops named here, at 8 of 10 in each. We read 20 bakeries; the median one carries 153 reviews and a 4.5 rating, and the most-reviewed carries 682.

Restaurants are the larger listings. The median restaurant we read carries 402 reviews and a 4.4 rating; the most-reviewed carries 1,514. Jack in the Box answered 10 of its last 10 reviews. Its listing holds 996 reviews. Among the other restaurants named, 1515 Restaurant answered 4 of 10 and Rooftop Restaurant & Bar 2 of 10. Jack in the Box also appears among the cafés named here, at the same 10 of 10.

Among the 20 bars we read, the median listing carries 299 reviews and a 4.3 rating. Rooftop Restaurant & Bar answered 2 of its last 10 reviews. Its listing, at 1,314 reviews, is the most-reviewed bar listing we read. The cafés and coffee shops we read sit at smaller medians, 152 and 165 reviews, each with a median rating of 4.7. Among the coffee shops, Brioche de Paris answered 8 of its last 10.

For comparison, the benchmark measured here: a typical measured business answered 77% of its recent reviews, across 42 businesses. That figure is measured across all trades together, not food and drink alone, so it describes the catchment's businesses as a whole rather than any one of these five trades.

What to do about it

Pull up your listing and count how many of your last 10 reviews have a reply from you. Every reply figure on this page is counted the same way. Among the businesses named in this section, Boudin SF and Jack in the Box answered 10 of 10, and Brioche de Paris 8 of 10. The benchmark measured here, across all trades together, is 77%.

If your count is lower than you expected, start with the next review that comes in and answer it, then the one after. Keep replies short and specific to what the customer said: the dish, the coffee, the visit. The review is the customer's; the reply is the part you write. Check the same last 10 again after a few more reviews have come in, and see where your own number sits against the figures here.

Restaurants

20 read · median 402 reviews · median rating 4.4

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Jack in the Box10 of 109963.8
21515 Restaurant4 of 107094.2
3Rooftop Restaurant & Bar2 of 1013144.2

Cafés

20 read · median 152 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Jack in the Box10 of 109963.8

Coffee shops

20 read · median 165 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Brioche de Paris8 of 103904.3

Bars

20 read · median 299 reviews · median rating 4.3

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Rooftop Restaurant & Bar2 of 1013144.2

Bakeries

20 read · median 153 reviews · median rating 4.5

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Boudin SF10 of 104893.8
2Brioche de Paris8 of 103904.3
3A Sweet Affair Bakery5 of 105214.4
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What food & drink businesses around Walnut Creek, CA do with their reviews
TradeMedian reviewsBest answeredYou
Restaurants40210 of 10the audit fills this in
Cafés15210 of 10the audit fills this in
Coffee shops1658 of 10the audit fills this in
Bars2992 of 10the audit fills this in
Bakeries15310 of 10the audit fills this in
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