For coffee shops and restaurants
Built by a 17-year coffee and restaurant professional from New York City and Italy. Schedules, tip pools and labor in one app your team will actually open.
Built for teams like yours
Everything lunedì does
Made for coffee shops and restaurants. Every feature below is live today.
Build the week on one readable grid.
Your team opens it, sees their week, done.
Connect Square once. Hours and tips come in every hour.
Know if you’re over- or under-staffed before the week starts.
The day-to-day, in the same app.
Your team’s data, handled properly.
Our story
I’ve spent 17 years behind the counter and on the floor of coffee shops and restaurants, first in Italy and then in New York City. I’ve opened, I’ve closed, I’ve written the schedule at midnight and split the tips by hand at the end of the week.
Every tool I tried for running a team was built by people who had never worked a Saturday rush. So I built lunedì: made by people who know every small detail of this business, from who opens and who closes to how tips should be shared, and why your staff deserve to see exactly what they earned.
Emiliano Pllumai, founder of lunedì · partner and general manager, Zibetto Espresso Bar · founder, Cappuccino Workshop
As seen on Fox News, Fox & Friends Weekend and in Il Newyorkese.
Running in New York City today
Our first business runs its New York City locations on lunedì: schedules, tip pools from Square, and labor for every location in one place. Each location keeps its own tip rules, its own card and its own invoices.
Why Lunedì
The scheduling tools charge per employee, and gate features behind tiers. Here's the honest comparison.
| Lunedì $25/location |
7shifts $40+/location* |
When I Work $4/user/mo* |
Homebase Free–$100* |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-employee fees | ✅ None | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| PTO by seniority + auto-deduction | ✅ | ➖ Add-on | ❌ | ➖ Limited |
| AES-256 encryption on sensitive data | ✅ | ❔ | ❔ | ❔ |
| Automatic weekly schedule publishing | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Guided setup by industry | ✅ | ➖ Restaurants only | ❌ | ❌ |
| Employee PTO balance in-app | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ➖ |
* Competitor pricing from public plans, 2026. Features based on publicly documented capabilities.
Security
Employee records include bank accounts, Social Security numbers, and home addresses. We treat that data like it matters.
Bank account numbers, routing numbers, dates of birth, and SSN fragments are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they touch the database. Even with full database access, the data is unreadable without the key.
Encryption keys live outside the database, injected at deploy time — never stored alongside the data they protect. Keys are rotated without touching your records.
Managers can't see or edit banking info — it's stripped from every response. Owners see masked values (••••1234) in lists. Full details require opening the individual record.
Every time an owner views sensitive employee data, it's logged — who, when, which record. Full SSN is never stored; only the last 4 digits.
HTTPS everywhere. Google encrypts the database at rest. Our application layer adds AES-256 on top for the most sensitive fields — defense in depth.
Forgot your password? We send a time-limited security code to your email — not a guessable link. Strong passwords required for every account (8+ characters, uppercase, number, symbol).
Pricing
$25 per location, per month. Or Premium, with everything, for $39.99.
Premium: $39.99/location/month, everything included
All of the above, plus tips & pay from Square, sales & labor with suggested hours, team training, and new-hire onboarding Coming soon.
No per-employee fees. Cancel anytime.
One card for all your locations, or a separate card for each.
14 days. Then $25/mo.
How it works
Drag shifts onto the grid — or copy last week and adjust. Time-off requests and conflicts are flagged as you go.
Smart draft assist proposes a balanced starting point from your usual patterns. You review, tweak, and approve.
One tap and every employee gets the schedule on their phone. Late changes? Republish in seconds.
Get started
Build this week's schedule in minutes, publish it to everyone's phone, and get on with running your business.
Coming soon
Payroll export, pay history for staff, Toast and team goals.
FAQ
Yes. Create your account, get 14 days. Then $25/mo. per location. Cancel anytime.
They get it on their phone as soon as you publish — no complicated setup.
Square today: clock-in hours, card tips and sales sync every hour. Toast is coming soon.
No app store needed. They open lunedì on their phone and add it to their home screen, like an app.
Yes, no contracts. Cancel in a tap and you won't be charged again.
No — unlimited employees per location, always.
Yes. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we never sell it. Read the details in our Privacy Policy.
