Stop staffing Diridon
like Santana Row.
$18.45 is the floor in San Jose. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a commute Tuesday and a brunch Saturday don't get the same schedule.
San Jose, CA
San Jose's 2026 minimum wage is $18.45/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 Jose coffee demand splits across train-corridor commute mornings, SJSU campus afternoon class days, and Westgate weekend brunch pulls. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:15. The Caltrain platform fills before the bar's even warmed up.
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 Jose 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. A Diridon commute Tuesday and a Santana Row Saturday do not staff the same shift, and a $18.45 city floor punishes the wrong call. 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. SJ's $18.45 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 Jose teams who keep the coffee moving.
How San Jose coffee shops run differently
- The Diridon corridor runs on the train clock. Caltrain pulls 7-to-9 mornings; tech-shuttle stops fill the same window; weekends are dead. Tuesday is light past noon.
- SJSU runs on the academic calendar. Class days fill the 10-to-2 window. Game weekends and graduation weekends rewrite Saturday entirely. Spring break hollows the whole week.
- Santana Row pulls a weekend brunch crowd. Tickets are bigger, lines move slower, and the morning starts at 9 not 7.
- An overstaffed hour at $18.45 is real money. Three of those a week is $221. A year is over $11,000. The math is the pitch.
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.
02Does the tech-shuttle pattern actually show up in the data?+
Yes — corporate shuttle stops near Diridon and other Caltrain stations create predictable 7:15-to-8:45 spikes that flatline by 9:30. Coordinex reads the pattern and drafts coverage that fits it instead of the smoothed Bay Area average.
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.
07Will this work for one shop, or do I need two?+
One shop is the design. Two shops on different blocks get separate models — the commute curve and the brunch curve don't share.
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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