Tuesday's quiet. Then it's not.
Cincinnati shops know. We saw it in the data.
Ohio floor is $11.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — an UC Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Cincinnati, OH.
Cincinnati, OH
Ohio's 2026 minimum wage poster lists $11.00/hr for non-tipped employees at employers with at least $405,000 in gross receipts, while employers below that threshold and employees under 16 may use the $7.25 federal floor. Tipped employees may be paid $5.50 cash wages plus tips if the employer can show cash wages plus tips reach the applicable minimum wage. Ohio overtime is one and one-half times the employee's wage rate after 40 hours in one workweek, except for employers grossing less than $150,000 per year. No statewide fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling rule is modeled here.
Cincinnati coffee demand splits across morning commute rushes, afternoon walk-in traffic, and weekend brunch pulls. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The Downtown Cincinnati crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
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 Cincinnati 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.
One of us grew up inside a small family business that wrote next week's schedule on Sunday with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is the version we wished existed back then, ported to coffee. Downtown office mornings compress the rush by an hour and The Banks event nights stretch the afternoon by two — the same roster for both is the Sunday-rebuild trap. 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. Ohio wage assumptions stay 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.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Cincinnati coffee shops run differently
- UC class weeks change one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every Cincinnati shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Riverfront event nights add another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Downtown Cincinnati or Over-the-Rhine. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During Downtown office mornings, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Mara called out for Tuesday at 9 p.m. Sunday. Jess saw it before you did, picked it up in the app, and the dry-erase board never had to come down.
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.
02My 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.
03We'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.
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.
06What 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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