Arts District mornings.
Bunker Hill afternoons.
$17.87 is the floor in LA. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a loft-commuter Tuesday and a theatre-week weekend don't get the same schedule.
Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles' 2026 minimum wage is $17.87/hr — set by city ordinance, above California's $16.50 state floor. CA does not allow a tip credit at the state level. CA daily overtime applies after 8 hours; doubletime after 12. The $20/hr fast-food law applies only to chains with 60+ locations nationally — independent DTLA shops are exempt.
Downtown LA coffee demand splits across Arts District morning loft-commuters, Bunker Hill afternoon office traffic, and Historic Core weekend tourist-and-event pulls. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The Arts District is full; the office towers are dark for another hour. The same staffing for both is wrong somewhere.
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 DTLA 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.
Both of us did time behind a register before we wrote a line of code. The Sunday rebuild is the moment Coordinex was built for. An Arts District morning and a Bunker Hill afternoon do not staff the same shift, and a Historic Core weekend rewrites the 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. LA's $17.87 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 Downtown Los Angeles teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Downtown LA coffee shops run differently
- The Arts District runs on the loft-commuter clock. 6:30-to-9 is the morning; the gallery walk pulls a different night crowd Saturday. Tuesday is light past noon.
- Bunker Hill is the office tower stack. Tower lobbies fill 7:30-to-9; the afternoon trickles down in waves; weekend is dead.
- On event days, the Historic Core spikes hard. Pre-event the line wraps; post-event nothing for an hour. The arena and the theatre week each have their own pattern.
- 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.
02What about the $20 fast-food wage?+
It applies to chains with 60+ locations nationally. Most independent DTLA shops are exempt. Coordinex shows the assumption applied to your block — read it before publish.
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.
07Will this work for one shop, or do I need two?+
One shop is the design. Two shops on different blocks get separate models — the loft-commuter curve and the office curve don't share.
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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