The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next Queens Saturday it doesn't.
New York floor is $17.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a 7 train Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Queens, NY.
Queens, NY
New York State Department of Labor 2026 tables list a $17.00/hr general minimum wage for New York City. Hospitality food-service tipped workers may use a $11.35 cash wage plus a tip credit up to $5.65 when tips make up the difference; tipped service employees use $14.15 cash wage plus $2.85 tip credit. For tipped workers, overtime is time-and-one-half the minimum wage rate, less the applicable tip credit. NYC Fair Workweek rules cover fast food, retail, and utility safety workers; this page must not imply every independent coffee shop is covered.
Queens 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 Long Island City crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
Other tools ask you to forecast Tuesday's rush by typing numbers into a form. The form sits empty. The schedule ships anyway, and the line at 7:30 proves it wrong.
Three months of your Queens 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. The Wednesday after airport shifts and the Saturday during stadium events are different shops entirely, no matter what last quarter's average says. 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. New York 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 Queens teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Queens coffee shops run differently
- 7-train commute waves change one part of the curve. They should not be averaged into every Queens shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Airport shift-change add another staffing layer. They can pull a different daypart than Long Island City or Astoria. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During stadium events, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Mara's kid is sick and Tuesday's open. She posts it, Jess takes it, and the only message on your phone is the one that says it's already done.
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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