You hire by the cup at 7.
We staffed it from Square at 5.
Iowa floor is $7.25. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a MercyOne North Iowa Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Mason City, IA.
Mason City, IA
Iowa's minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Tipped employees who customarily receive more than $30 per month in tips may be paid a $4.35/hr minimum cash wage when tips make up the difference to the full minimum wage; the tip credit is capped at $2.90. Iowa also allows a $6.35/hr initial employment wage for the first 90 calendar days for eligible new hires. Overtime is generally governed by the federal FLSA at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek. No statewide fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling rule is modeled here.
Mason City 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 Mason City crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
The other apps want a forecast you don't have time to enter. They ship the schedule with empty fields and call it predictive. The roster is wrong before the kitchen lights are on.
Three months of your Mason City 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. A regular Downtown Mason City weekday and a Clear Lake weekend spillover weekend don't share a curve, and the citywide average is what makes that invisible until publish. 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. Iowa 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 Mason City coffee shops run differently
- MercyOne North Iowa shifts change one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every Mason City shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Clear Lake weekend spillover adds another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Downtown Mason City or Music Man Square. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During NIACC class weeks, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- The wall calendar in the kitchen — the one with three names crossed out — finally retires. Mara posts Tuesday, Jess covers it, you sign off from the bar.
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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