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3.4 → 4.6 on Google. Six weeks. Two locations

How Maria L. and her team at Lisbon Coffee Group moved their Google rating in under two months — without working any harder.

Industry: Restaurants & cafés

Locations: 2

Country: Portugal

Tailwind products used: Reviews Management, Score, Threads, Customer Engagement

Time on Tailwind: 6 weeks (this case study)

Founder: Maria L., owner

The starting point

Lisbon Coffee Group runs two specialty cafés in central Lisbon — heavy tourist traffic, locals on weekdays, brunch crowd on weekends. Their Google rating was 3.4 across the two locations. Reviews piled up on Yelp and TripAdvisor in five different languages, mostly from tourists. Maria replied when she could, which was about a third of the time.

The rating wasn't fair to the cafés' actual quality — but the rating was what new customers saw.

Maria L.

Owner

I'd open Google Maps and see we were at 3.4 and feel sick. The 1-stars were always the same things — slow service on a busy Saturday, a tourist who didn't know we close at 5. I just couldn't keep up.

What they changed

Week 1
Connected Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Apple Maps, and Facebook in Tailwind. Onboarded brand voice from existing reviews and the cafés' Instagram captions.
Week 1–2
Replied to every backlog review (about 180 across both locations) using AI drafts in the relevant language. Maria reviewed the first 30, then started trusting the AI for 5-stars and reviewing the under-4-stars manually.
Week 2
Configured Orders Routing — 1- and 2-star reviews to her duty manager via SMS during service hours. She stopped getting paged during family dinners.
Week 3
Enabled Customer Engagement: post-payment SMS asking for a Google review, sent only to walk-in customers (not delivery), only on a customer's first visit, only if the customer paid by card (so their phone number was on file).
Week 4–6
The new review velocity (~12/week per location) drowned out the old long-tail of negatives. Maria's reply rate hit 100% with no extra time spent.

What happened

Google rating increases 3.4→4.6
across both locations, We handled negative reviews in the background and boosted the positive ones.
Reply rate ~33%→100%
Tailwind automatically replies to all comments — you don’t lose customers.
Average response time 18 hours→47 minutes
We reduced customer message response time — customers can see that they’re valued.
Weekend bookings +18%
Weekend bookings increased correlated with rating climb
Maria’s review-related work ~5 hours/week→~30 minutes/week
The business owner’s job is to focus on growing the business — not spending time replying on social media.

What surprised them

Maria L.

Owner

I thought the AI replies would feel fake. They didn't. The first one I sent was for an Italian tourist who'd left a 4-star review — Tailwind drafted a reply in Italian that sounded exactly like me. He emailed me back to say thanks. I haven't written a review reply manually in three weeks.

What they're doing next

Adding Mentions to track Instagram and TikTok posts about the cafés.

Trying Blog Generator for SEO articles in Portuguese and English.

Considering opening a third location, partly because the reputation work scales.

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