The Great Lakes Mall rush hits Mentor by 7.
We drafted next week from your Square data.
Ohio's floor is $11.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square sales and draft next week — a Great Lakes Mall Saturday shouldn't staff like a quiet Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Mentor, OH.
Mentor, 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.
Mentor 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 in Mentor. The first Great Lakes Mall regulars are already in line. By 9, the morning rush is over.
Most apps ask you to type in how busy you'll be next week. You won't — nobody does. So the schedule ships wrong, and the dry-erase board wins again.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes. Thirteen weeks of your Mentor 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 don't pretend the app knows your team better than you do.
We grew up around shops like yours — the kind where the owner rebuilds the schedule Sunday night with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is what we wished existed back then. A Great Lakes Mall Saturday and a Lakeland Community College Tuesday don't fill the same hours, and a flat roster picks the wrong one every time. 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 13 weeks of hourly sales. We don't change a thing in your Square account. You sign in, give read-only permission, done.
Next week, drafted in 12 minutes
We draft next week from your hourly Square sales, so you spend 12 minutes editing instead of 90 rebuilding from scratch. Ohio's $11.00 floor stays visible before you publish.
Every Sunday, your draft sharpens
Last week's actual sales feed back in. The model fitted to your shop adjusts. Next Sunday's draft starts closer than the last one did.
For the Mentor crew who keep the morning rush moving.
How Mentor coffee shops run differently
- The Great Lakes Mall rush owns your mornings. Retail Saturdays pack the bar early; a slow Mentor Avenue Tuesday doesn't. Coordinex reads which one your Square history actually proves, so you don't staff both the same.
- Headlands Beach turns the weekend on. A hot summer Saturday pulls a beach crowd before noon; lake-effect snow erases it by January. We don't guess that — your sales saw it last year.
- Lakeland Community College stretches the weekday. When classes are in, the morning runs hotter and longer; the schedule should know that, and a flat roster won't.
- Mara's kid is sick and her Tuesday opener's wide open. She posts it, Jess covers the shift, and the only message on your phone is the one that says it's already done.
Frequently asked
01What does Coordinex actually read from my Square account?+
Hourly sales, ticket counts, and item sales for the last 13 weeks. Read-only. We don't write back, we don't change your menu, we don't touch payments. You give read-only permission and that's the whole handshake.
02How does Coordinex handle Ohio wage rules?+
Ohio's 2026 poster lists $11.00/hr for covered non-tipped employees and $5.50 cash for tipped staff when tips bring them to the floor; small employers and under-16 staff may use the $7.25 federal floor. Coordinex keeps the assumption you pick and your 40-hour overtime line visible before you 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 pull it without a payday lender. We don't take a cut from them, and you don't get the awkward Monday text.
04We'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 pattern where one phone clocks in two people. We don't want you to be the cop — we just want the clock to be honest.
05Honest 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.
06How much does it cost?+
Free up to 5 teammates — no card. Starter is $9.99/mo with a 7-day Apple trial; Pro is $24.99/mo. Full pricing at coordinex.app/pricing. One avoided overstaffed Tuesday covers most of it. If it isn't useful in week one, delete it.
07What 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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