The Alaska Merchant Pulse
Pulse follows the ratings and review counts of every licensed restaurant, bar, coffee stand and shop in the state, across the platforms your customers actually use, and turns them into a single score you can act on. Shown only to the business it describes, and free to claim.
Platform names and marks belong to their owners. Pulse reads their public ratings and review counts and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
The card shows real Alaska businesses in the top band. Pulse names businesses only at the top; every other score is private to its owner.
Moose's Tooth Pub & Pizzeria
Anchorage · Pizza
Built from Google, TripAdvisor and Yelp · 21,010 reviews tracked
What the score is
Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and DoorDash are five different streams, each with its own gravel. Pulse works all of them, washes out the sand (a strict crowd on one, a generous one on another, three reviews pretending to be thirty) and hands you what settles in the pan: one 0–100 number that means the same thing for a food truck in Homer and a steakhouse in Anchorage.
Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and DoorDash today, with more as we add them. We cite each source by name. We never republish their ratings; ours is the complete picture, theirs are parts of it.
Each platform is measured against its own statewide baseline before anything is combined, so a strict Yelp crowd doesn't drag you down and a generous delivery app doesn't prop you up.
Two hundred reviews outweigh six. A new listing with three five-stars isn't a 100; it's a promising start, and the score says so until the reviews back it up.
Dine-in and take-out, separately
Nobody else splits it. Pulse scores the people who sat down (Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable) apart from the people who ordered in (DoorDash and the delivery apps). A wide gap between the two is the most useful thing on the page: it tells you whether the problem is the food, the packaging, or the forty minutes in a driver's back seat.
Take-out scores appear once a business has enough delivery-platform history; 272 Alaska businesses have one today, and the number grows every sweep.
A drive-in whose burgers travel better than its dining room: the food is fine, the wait at the counter isn't. Same data, opposite fix from a restaurant that scores 80 in the room and 40 at the door.
What a higher score is worth
Since we began tracking in July, Alaska businesses scoring 90 or better have added Google reviews at roughly 3 times the rate of businesses under 40. Happy customers are asked and say yes; unhappy ones show up on their own. The score is where that curve puts you today, and the bands are how far you are from the next one.
While the visit is still warm and the phone is already out. Businesses that ask add reviews several times faster than those that wait, and the reviews that arrive unasked skew unhappy. That single habit is most of the gap between the top band and the middle.
Every claimed business sees its own band, its next threshold, and where it stands among its city and its category. How the score is built.
Private by design
Pulse exists to help Alaska businesses build, not to rank them in public. A business's full picture is shown only to the people who run it, after they claim it. Signed-in owners also see who leads their town and category, and nothing else about anyone.
Claiming your business
Claiming your business shows you your current score and subscribes you to your Pulse report: a monthly email with your score, what moved, and what it means. All of it is free.
Search by name. If it holds an Alaska business license and takes reviews, it's already here.
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Score, band, dine-in and take-out, city and category standing, and your Pulse report by email every month. Sign in any time with a link, never a password.
Claiming your listing, seeing your current score, the monthly report, the movement panel, the platform-by-platform breakdown and review routing are all free right now. If that ever changes you'll hear from us first, you'll keep your claim and your score either way, and the public lookup stays free for everyone.