Saturdays at Eye Center of the Dakotas, are they open?
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Eye care center in Bismarck, ND
4.9 · 364 reviewsOpens Wednesday at 8:30 AMOpens Wednesday at 8:30 AM
The Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck is a welcoming eye care center that feels like a big family. With a remarkable rating of 4.9 from 364 reviews, patients consistently praise the friendly and knowledgeable staff, who are dedicated to making every visit comfortable and informative. The center is equipped with modern technology, ensuring a pleasant experience without the usual discomforts associated with eye exams. Dr. Pathroff and Dr. Moch are particularly noted for their professionalism and ability to explain procedures clearly, making this a trusted choice for eye care in the community.
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What Eye Center of the Dakotas offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
Eye Center of the Dakotas lists 3 services on its website. Here's each one, with a plain description and how many reviews mention each.
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You can enjoy coffee while you wait for your appointment. Meg-A-Latte | Coffee House (Bismarck Divide Location) is a 2 minute walk for coffee. Stadium Sports Bar and The Lodge is a 3 minute walk for drinks and food. Disk golf course is a 3 minute walk for outdoor recreation.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 18, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
What reviews, press and directories say about Eye Center of the Dakotas.
4.9from 364 reviews on Google
The Eye Center of the Dakotas stands out for its friendly atmosphere and the thorough care provided by doctors like Dr. Moch and Dr. Pathroff. Customers describe the Eye Center of the Dakotas as a welcoming and family-like environment, where staff members are attentive and knowledgeable. Many appreciate the thoroughness of the examinations, particularly noting the absence of uncomfortable procedures like air puff tests. The overall experience is described as relaxed and enjoyable.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
53 Bismarck avg
Signal and how much it countsEye Center of the Dakotas
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Eye Center of the Dakotas, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Eye Center of the Dakotas, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Eye Center of the Dakotas. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Eye care centers in Bismarck, ND · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 29, 2026.
Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 29, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Eye Center of the Dakotas is an eye care center in Bismarck, ND. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (701) 224-0661 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 364 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 29, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Eye Center of the Dakotas | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (701) 224-0661 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Colored contact lenses | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Contact lens fitting | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Diabetes-related eye care | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Macular degeneration | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Prescription glasses | AI guess | |
| Links | https://facebook.com/eyecenterofthedakotas | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 3 services Eye Center of the Dakotas offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colored contact lenses | From their website | |||
| Glaucoma | From their website | |||
| Macular degeneration | From their website |
Address: 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA. Phone: (701) 224-0661. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Meg-A-Latte | Coffee House (Bismarck Divide Location) | Cafe | 2 min walk |
| Stadium Sports Bar and The Lodge | Bar & grill | 3 min walk |
| Disk golf course | Park | 3 min walk |
| Mystic Marketplace | Restaurant | 5 min walk |
| George Bird Rotary Arboretum | Park | 7 min walk |
| Texas Roadhouse | Steak house | 9 min walk |
4.9 average across 364 reviews: Google 364. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)
(AI guess, from 364 reviews.)
We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Eye Center of the Dakotas. These are the answers that don’t match this page.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.
| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1221 West Divide Avenue | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bismarck eye care centers run 25 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Eye Center of the Dakotas scores 57, above the Bismarck average of 53. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Eye Center of the Dakotas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 84 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 60 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery
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| Bismarck, North Dakota | City | #city | City Eye Center of the Dakotas is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Bismarck, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Eye Center of the Dakotas, Bismarck ND: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/nd/bismarck/eye-center-of-the-dakotas-bismarck-nd. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-29. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/nd/bismarck/eye-center-of-the-dakotas-bismarck-nd ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Eye Center of the Dakotas is an eye care center in Bismarck, ND. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Eye care center | | Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (701) 224-0661 | | Rating | 4.9 across 364 reviews on Google | | Updated | October 29, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Eye Center of the Dakotas | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (701) 224-0661 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Colored contact lenses | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Contact lens fitting | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Diabetes-related eye care | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Eye exams | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Glaucoma | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Macular degeneration | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Prescription glasses | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/eyecenterofthedakotas | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 3 services Eye Center of the Dakotas offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Colored contact lenses | | | | From their website | | Glaucoma | | | | From their website | | Macular degeneration | | | | From their website | ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Eye Center of the Dakotas Address: 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA. Phone: (701) 224-0661. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Meg-A-Latte \| Coffee House (Bismarck Divide Location) | Cafe | 2 min walk | | Stadium Sports Bar and The Lodge | Bar & grill | 3 min walk | | Disk golf course | Park | 3 min walk | | Mystic Marketplace | Restaurant | 5 min walk | | George Bird Rotary Arboretum | Park | 7 min walk | | Texas Roadhouse | Steak house | 9 min walk | ## Reputation 4.9 average across 364 reviews: Google 364. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.) (AI guess, from 364 reviews.) ### What people like - Friendly and professional staff - State-of-the-art equipment - Efficient optical department ### What people do not like - Misdiagnosis concerns - Lack of follow-up communication ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### opening hours at Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck, what are they these days? ### Saturdays at Eye Center of the Dakotas, are they open? ### What makes this place stand out? ### pain wise, what is it like here ### are prices in Bismarck higher than everywhere else ### best eye care center in Bismarck ### medical staff at Eye Center of the Dakotas, or is it techs? ### same day appts, does that ever happen here ### Booking here, how does it work? ### the good stuff about this place, what is it? ### Whereabouts is Eye Center of the Dakotas? ### anything new from Eye Center of the Dakotas lately? ### anywhere cheaper than Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck that is still good? ### membership, worth it or not ### is Dakota Eye any better for Friendly and knowledgeable optometrists ### Somewhere to park near Eye Center of the Dakotas? ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? ## What AI gets wrong about Eye Center of the Dakotas We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Eye Center of the Dakotas. These are the answers that don’t match this page. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What this page says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1221 West Divide Avenue | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA | ## The AI Score: 57 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bismarck eye care centers run 25 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Eye Center of the Dakotas scores 57, above the Bismarck average of 53. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Eye Center of the Dakotas | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 84 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 60 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Eye Center of the Dakotas | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Eye Center of the Dakotas | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/ | Subject of this page | | Bismarck, North Dakota | City | #city | | City Eye Center of the Dakotas is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Bismarck, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best eye care centers in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck/eye-care-center - Best businesses in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck ### Nearby - /grand-forks: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/grand-forks ### Every list - Every leaderboard in North Dakota: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJbd-JfYOD11IRSAySUxTRM2Y (accessed Jul 16, 2026) - [2] eyecenterofthedakotas.com, https://eyecenterofthedakotas.com/services/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Eye care centers in Bismarck, ND · Editorial</p>
<h2>Eye Center of the Dakotas, Bismarck ND: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 29, 2026.</p>
<p>Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 29, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Eye Center of the Dakotas is an eye care center in Bismarck, ND. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Eye care center</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(701) 224-0661</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.9 across 364 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>October 29, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Eye Center of the Dakotas</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(701) 224-0661</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>8:30 AM to 5:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>8:30 AM to 5:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>8:30 AM to 5:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>8:30 AM to 5:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>8:30 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Colored contact lenses</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Contact lens fitting</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Diabetes-related eye care</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Eye exams</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Glaucoma</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Macular degeneration</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Prescription glasses</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/eyecenterofthedakotas</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 3 services Eye Center of the Dakotas offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Colored contact lenses</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Glaucoma</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Macular degeneration</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-eye-center-of-the-dakotas">
<h3>Visiting Eye Center of the Dakotas</h3>
<p>Address: 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA. Phone: (701) 224-0661. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Meg-A-Latte | Coffee House (Bismarck Divide Location)</td><td>Cafe</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Stadium Sports Bar and The Lodge</td><td>Bar & grill</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Disk golf course</td><td>Park</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mystic Marketplace</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>5 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>George Bird Rotary Arboretum</td><td>Park</td><td>7 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Texas Roadhouse</td><td>Steak house</td><td>9 min walk</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.9 average across 364 reviews: Google 364. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)</p>
<p> (AI guess, from 364 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Friendly and professional staff</li>
<li>State-of-the-art equipment</li>
<li>Efficient optical department</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Misdiagnosis concerns</li>
<li>Lack of follow-up communication</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>opening hours at Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>Saturdays at Eye Center of the Dakotas, are they open?</h4>
<h4>What makes this place stand out?</h4>
<h4>pain wise, what is it like here</h4>
<h4>are prices in Bismarck higher than everywhere else</h4>
<h4>best eye care center in Bismarck</h4>
<h4>medical staff at Eye Center of the Dakotas, or is it techs?</h4>
<h4>same day appts, does that ever happen here</h4>
<h4>Booking here, how does it work?</h4>
<h4>the good stuff about this place, what is it?</h4>
<h4>Whereabouts is Eye Center of the Dakotas?</h4>
<h4>anything new from Eye Center of the Dakotas lately?</h4>
<h4>anywhere cheaper than Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck that is still good?</h4>
<h4>membership, worth it or not</h4>
<h4>is Dakota Eye any better for Friendly and knowledgeable optometrists</h4>
<h4>Somewhere to park near Eye Center of the Dakotas?</h4>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
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<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about Eye Center of the Dakotas</h3>
<p>We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Eye Center of the Dakotas. These are the answers that don’t match this page.</p>
<p>ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">What AI says</th><th scope="col">What this page says</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1221 West Divide Avenue</td><td>1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 57 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bismarck eye care centers run 25 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Eye Center of the Dakotas scores 57, above the Bismarck average of 53. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Eye Center of the Dakotas</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>75</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>33</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>84</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>56</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>60</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>54</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery</p>
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<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Eye Center of the Dakotas</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Eye Center of the Dakotas</td><td>MedicalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bismarck, North Dakota</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Eye Center of the Dakotas is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Bismarck, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best eye care centers in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck/eye-care-center</li>
<li>Best businesses in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/grand-forks: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/grand-forks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in North Dakota: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd</li>
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<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJbd-JfYOD11IRSAySUxTRM2Y (accessed Jul 16, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] eyecenterofthedakotas.com, https://eyecenterofthedakotas.com/services/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.