5 a.m. shift change.
Houston shops know.
$7.25 is the floor in Texas, $2.13 tipped. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a medical-corridor pre-dawn and a Montrose Saturday don't get the same schedule.
Houston, TX
Texas tracks the federal floor of $7.25/hr. TX allows the federal $2.13 tipped cash wage if tips bring total to $7.25. Texas preempts city and county minimum-wage ordinances — Houston uses the state rate. FLSA weekly overtime applies after 40 hours.
Houston coffee demand splits across Texas Medical Center pre-dawn shift-change traffic, The Heights weekday residential mornings, and Montrose afternoon-and-weekend pulls. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
5:45 a.m. The medical-corridor parking garages are filling. The morning's already started.
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 Houston 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 Texas Medical Center 5 a.m. shift change and a Montrose Saturday brunch do not staff the same shop, and a Heights weekday 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. Texas base-pay-plus-tips 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 one.
For Houston teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Houston coffee shops run differently
- The medical corridor pulls the morning earlier than anywhere. 5-to-7 is the shift-change window; 7-to-9 is the second wave; by 10 the parking garages are full and the line dies.
- The Heights runs on the weekday residential clock. Stroller traffic at 7:15; school drop-off at 8; coffee for the work-from-home crowd at 9:30.
- Montrose flips on weekends. Brunch lines from 9 to 1, then a quieter afternoon, then the bar crowd rolls in at 4. Weekday is light past noon.
- A 100-degree summer afternoon doesn't need 4 baristas on the floor. It needs 1, with the AC working. Coordinex shows the heat-day pattern your shop already proved last summer.
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 the medical-corridor 5 a.m. pattern show up in my Square data?+
Yes — pre-dawn shift-change spikes are one of the cleanest patterns we see. If your shop is within walking distance of TMC, your Square history shows the 5-to-7 wave louder than any other window. Coordinex drafts coverage that fits it.
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.
07$2.13 tipped wage seems low. What if tips don't cover it?+
If tips don't bring pay to $7.25, 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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