Stop staffing Bed-Stuy
like it's Williamsburg.
$17.00 is the floor for NYC. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a Tuesday morning and a Saturday brunch don't get the same schedule.
Brooklyn, NY
NYC's 2026 minimum wage is $17.00/hr. Food-service tipped cash wage is $11.35 with a $5.65 max tip credit, provided tips bring total compensation to $17.00. NYC weekly overtime applies after 40 hours. Fair Workweek covers fast-food chains with 30+ locations nationally — most independent shops are exempt, but verify your structure.
Brooklyn coffee demand splits across Williamsburg weekend brunch, Park Slope school-morning weekday traffic, and Bed-Stuy late-afternoon service-industry shifts. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 7:15 in Brooklyn. The schedule for next Tuesday is wrong before it's published, because last Tuesday was a school day and the Tuesday before that was spring break.
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 Brooklyn 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.
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. A Williamsburg Saturday and a Park Slope school-morning Tuesday do not run on the same coverage, and the L-train weekend changes that math again. 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. NYC's $17.00 wage assumption stays visible 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.
For Brooklyn teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Brooklyn coffee shops run differently
- Williamsburg pulls weekend brunch forward by an hour. Saturday opens at 7:30, not 8. Sunday line wraps the corner before 10. Tuesday is a different shop entirely.
- Park Slope runs on the school clock. Strollers and parents fill the 7-to-9 window on weekdays. Spring break and snow days flatten it. The afternoon is quiet either way.
- Bed-Stuy fills the late afternoon. Service-industry baristas come in at 4 — the morning is light, the 4-to-6 window is the question. The same staffing for both will miss one.
- Shift swaps stop being a group text. Mara posts she can't make Tuesday. Jess taps once and picks it up. You approve from your phone, or auto-approve trusted swaps.
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.
02Does Coordinex handle NYC Fair Workweek?+
Coordinex flags scheduling-change exposure but doesn't auto-comply for you. Fair Workweek covers fast-food chains with 30+ locations nationally — most independent Brooklyn shops are exempt, but check with counsel. Don't take a marketing page as legal advice. We surface the flag; you make the call.
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.
06We've got someone clocking in for a friend. 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.
07What about the tipped-wage credit?+
Food-service tipped cash wage is $11.35 with a $5.65 max credit if tips bring total to $17.00. Coordinex shows the assumption applied before publish. We don't auto-flag tip-credit shortfalls yet — keep what you have 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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