Roots Roasting

When Minneapolis shoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode about coffee beans, none of the 30 answers names Roots Roasting. #33 of 70 local coffee roasters; AI names Dogwood Coffee in 18.

AI answers that name it0 of 30
  • ChatGPT0 of 10
  • Perplexity0 of 10
  • Google AI Mode0 of 10

Leader: Dogwood Coffee, 18 of 30

Asked on 30 October 2026

Roots Roasting

  • 4.8 · 362 Google reviews
  • 1552 St Clair Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
  • Coffee
  • rootsroasting.com

More Google reviews than 64% of the coffee roasters in Minneapolis. Yet AI names 24 other coffee roasters here, Dogwood Coffee first, with 761 reviews.

What AI answers instead

A shopper asks ChatGPT: “best coffee roaster in Minneapolis”. The answer names:

  1. Dogwood Coffee
  2. Northern Coffeeworks
  3. Up Coffee
  4. Spyhouse Coffee Roasters

Roots Roasting is not in it, or in any of the other 29 answers.

The 10 questions we asked

Each asked in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. A tick: at least one answer to it names Roots Roasting or links its site.

  1. best coffee roaster in Minneapolis
  2. where to buy fresh coffee beans in Minneapolis
  3. local coffee roasters in Minneapolis that ship
  4. best espresso beans from a Minneapolis roaster
  5. coffee subscription from a roaster in Minneapolis
  6. where to buy specialty coffee beans in Minneapolis
  7. single origin coffee beans in Minneapolis
  8. coffee roastery in Minneapolis with online ordering
  9. best coffee gift from a Minneapolis roaster
  10. which local roaster in Minneapolis do people recommend

What AI finds on rootsroasting.com

Its home page, robots.txt and llms.txt, checked on 3 November 2026: what AI assistants read first.

  • Store details in structured dataName, address and hours in a form AI reads directly.
  • Products in structured dataNo Product data on the home page: AI cannot see what the store sells or for how much.
  • Ratings in structured dataNo rating or review data: AI leans on other sites to judge the store.
  • Open to AI assistantsrobots.txt lets the AI crawlers in.
  • llms.txtNo llms.txt: no short summary written for AI assistants.
  • Secure site (HTTPS)Opens over HTTPS.

Stores like it that AI names

Close in Google rating and reviews.

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