La Jolla mornings.
Gaslamp weekends.
$17.75 is the floor in San Diego. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a beach Tuesday and a downtown Saturday don't get the same schedule.
San Diego, CA
San Diego's 2026 minimum wage is $17.75/hr — set by city ordinance, above California's $16.50 state floor. CA does not allow a tip credit at the state level. CA daily overtime applies after 8 hours; doubletime after 12. The $20/hr fast-food law applies only to chains with 60+ locations nationally — independent shops are exempt.
San Diego coffee demand splits across coastal beach-morning rushes, North Park afternoon walk-ins, and Gaslamp Quarter weekend convention pulls. Comic-Con week and large-conference weekends rewrite downtown entirely.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:15 a.m. The first surfers are already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
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 San Diego 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. A La Jolla beach Saturday and a North Park weekday do not staff the same shift, and the Gaslamp event week 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. SD's $17.75 wage assumption stays 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 San Diego teams who keep the coffee moving.
How San Diego coffee shops run differently
- La Jolla pulls the morning forward year-round. Surfers and beach-walkers want a cup before 7. Foggy mornings cut it; sunny ones extend it past 9.
- North Park runs on the afternoon clock. Weekday walk-ins peak 1-to-3; the morning is light. Saturday brunch flips the pattern entirely.
- On convention weekends, the Gaslamp Quarter spikes and the rest of downtown spillovers. Comic-Con week and Padres playoffs each have their own pattern.
- Shift swaps stop being a group text. Mara posts she can't make Tuesday. Jess taps once and picks it up. You approve from your phone, or auto-approve trusted swaps.
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.
02What about Comic-Con and other big weekends?+
Coordinex sees the spike in your last-year Square history and treats those as separate patterns. The draft for convention weeks comes pre-stretched. Five days of pre-dawn coverage instead of five surprise mornings.
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.
07What about the $20 fast-food wage?+
It applies to chains with 60+ locations nationally. Most independent SD shops are exempt. Coordinex shows the assumption applied to your block — read it before publish.
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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