Old Town's rush starts at 6.
Nob Hill's doesn't.
$12.00 is the floor in New Mexico. Coordinex runs the whole shop from your phone — schedules, GPS clock-in, team messaging, and early pay for your baristas. Your three months of hourly Square sales is what makes the draft smart, so a tourist Saturday and a UNM Tuesday stop getting the same schedule.
Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico's 2026 minimum wage is $12.00/hr. NM allows a tipped cash wage of $3.00/hr if tips bring total pay to $12.00. NM weekly overtime applies after 40 hours; NM has no daily overtime rule. The City of Albuquerque does not set its own higher minimum.
Albuquerque coffee demand splits across plaza-tourist mornings, Nob Hill UNM afternoons, and Downtown weekday commute traffic. Balloon Fiesta week (early October) doubles the morning for nine days.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6 a.m. in Old Town. The first tour buses haven't loaded yet, but the line is already four deep and your opener is alone on the bar.
Most apps ask you to type in how busy you'll be. Nobody types it in. So the schedule is wrong before it ships.
Three months of your Albuquerque mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing nobody flips through during a Sunday rebuild.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending the app knows your team better than you do. You know which barista carries the Old Town rush and which one you save for the quiet stretch.
And the schedule is only the start of it. The same app handles the opening checklist as tasks your closer actually checks off, GPS clock-in that knows the phone is in Old Town and not the parking lot, the group thread that replaces your seven scattered texts, and early pay so a barista can pull what they've earned before Friday. One login runs the floor, not five.
We're not a SaaS company that read a coffee blog. One of us grew up inside a family business; the other is still apologizing to a Sunday-night shift list. An Old Town tourist morning and a Nob Hill afternoon do not staff the same shift, and a $3.00 tipped cash wage means the wrong call costs more. We don't claim to run your shop. We just stop you from guessing the busy hours — using the Square history your block already proved.
Connect Square — 4 minutes
We connect to your Square account and read three months of hourly sales. We don't change a thing in your Square account. Sign in, give read-only permission, done.
Next week, drafted in 12 minutes
Reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week from that. You spend 12 minutes editing instead of 90 building from scratch. New Mexico's $12.00 floor stays visible on every shift before publish.
Every Sunday, your demand curve sharpens
Last week's actual sales feed back in. A demand model fitted to your shop adjusts. Next week's draft starts from a smaller error than the last one. Pulse turns the same numbers into a plain-English read on labor cost, overtime drift, and who's trending toward burnout — the report you never had time to build.
For Albuquerque teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Albuquerque coffee shops run differently
- Old Town pulls the morning forward on weekends. Tour buses load at 9. By 10 the plaza is packed and the line wraps the patio. A Tuesday morning here is half that — staff it like Saturday and you're paying two baristas to wipe tables.
- Nob Hill runs on the UNM clock. Class days fill the 10-to-2 window. Finals and breaks pull the count down 25 to 35 percent, twice a year, like clockwork. Then a home-game Saturday rewrites the whole afternoon.
- The Westside opens on commuter time, not tourist time. Families and the 7 a.m. drive-thru run the mornings; the middle of the day stays slow. One citywide schedule can't see that — your Square history can.
- During Balloon Fiesta (early October), the pre-dawn launch crowd lifts North Valley and Downtown shops up to 2.2x for nine straight mornings. Either you staff the 5-to-7 window or the line walks to the next block. Summer's the gentle one — the heat just pushes the afternoon onto iced drinks, so don't cut those shifts the way Phoenix would.
Frequently asked
01What does Coordinex actually read from Square?+
Hourly sales, ticket counts, and item sales for the last three months. Read-only. We don't write back, we don't change menus, we don't touch payments.
02What about Balloon Fiesta? It's not a normal week.+
Coordinex sees the spike in your last-October Square history and treats it as its own pattern. The draft for Fiesta week comes pre-stretched — nine mornings of pre-dawn coverage instead of nine surprises. You staff the launch crowd before the first burner lights, not after the line's already out the door.
03My baristas keep asking for advances. Does Coordinex help?+
Earned wage access is built in. They see what they've already earned mid-pay-period and can pull it without going to a payday lender. We don't take a cut from them. You don't get the awkward Monday text.
04Honest question — does it work on Android?+
Not yet. Coordinex is iPhone-only right now. We'd rather ship one platform that's actually good than two that are half-finished. Android is on the list. We won't put a date on it until it's real.
05How much?+
Free up to 5 teammates — no card. $9.99/mo Starter has a 7-day Apple trial. Full pricing at coordinex.app/pricing. If Coordinex isn't useful in week one, delete it.
06Someone clocked in for a friend who called out. Can the app catch it?+
Yes. Geofenced clock-in checks the phone is actually at the shop. Buddy-punch detection flags the patterns where one phone clocks in two people. We don't want you to be the cop. We want the clock to be honest.
07$3.00 tipped wage seems low. How do I keep it square?+
If tips don't bring pay to the $12.00 floor, you owe the difference. Coordinex shows the base-pay-plus-tips assumption per shift before publish. We don't auto-flag shortfalls yet — keep your existing tip-tracking for that.
08What happens to my data if I cancel?+
You own it on the way out. Export every schedule, timesheet, and wage record before you delete the app — nothing is held hostage, and we don't lock your history behind a final invoice. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
Try Coordinex on Tuesday. Connect Square in 4 minutes. Schedule by 9.
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