Rochester coffee shop interior with MN morning light around the espresso bar.
Built for Rochester coffee shops

You open before the sign flips.
We've been ready since Sunday.

Minnesota floor is $11.41. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a Mayo Clinic shift changes Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.

Coffee shop scheduling for Rochester, MN.

Local data

Rochester, MN

Metro population: 122,330
Wages
$11.41
minimum wage
$11.41
tipped minimum
Labor law

Minnesota's statewide minimum wage is $11.41/hr effective January 1, 2026. Minnesota does not allow a tip credit, so tipped employees must receive at least the applicable minimum wage before tips. Federal FLSA-covered employers may owe overtime after 40 hours in a workweek; Minnesota state overtime applies after 48 hours unless an exemption applies. No statewide fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling rule is modeled here.

Seasonality

Rochester 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 Mayo Clinic 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 Rochester 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. Pretend Downtown Rochester on a Tuesday is Apache Mall on a Saturday and you'll overstaff one of them, and a flat schedule 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.

01

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.

02

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. Minnesota wage assumptions stay visible before publish.

03

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.

Young adult woman barista pouring milk into latte art spelling Coordinex, with a point-of-sale tablet nearby inside a coffee shop in Rochester, MN.

For Rochester teams who keep the coffee moving.

How Rochester coffee shops run differently

  • Mayo Clinic shift-change changes one part of the curve. Changes should not be averaged into every Rochester shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
  • Patient-family visitor days add another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Mayo Clinic or Downtown Rochester. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
  • During medical conference 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.
$11.41
Minnesota floor
Earned wages
paid early, no payday loans
40/48 hr
overtime checks
POS integrations
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Square
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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.

Same Square data, different blocks. Three more Minnesotacoffee shops we’ve drafted next week for —

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