Prep, handover and closing routines for independent cafés. Lighthouse Café explores the quiet systems behind a smooth shift.
Design focus
The next shift needs to know what changed: a low stock item, a faulty grinder or an unfinished prep task.
Use a short handover organised around service readiness. Carry open issues forward rather than rewriting the whole shift log.
What you are looking at
Lighthouse Café is a software product concept with an interactive local example and practical reading material. It is not a production SaaS service. The example records are invented demonstration data, not customer accounts or evidence of product usage.
Editorial scope
Our notes focus on building an opening checklist, writing a useful shift handover, separating stock notes from prep tasks. They describe practical planning considerations rather than professional legal, financial or other regulated advice.