Most small cafe owners are reactive — they find out coverage is thin when someone doesn't show up, and they find out about cash problems when the week's numbers don't add up. This planner changes that.

It walks you through five phases at the start of each week: setting your coverage frame, locking your handoff routine, building your cash-count habit, assigning accountability for openings and closings, and installing a weekly review loop. Each phase has a clear completion gate, a list of tasks with time estimates, and a review question to make sure it actually worked.

The Status column tracks what's Done, In Progress, or Not Started — and turns green automatically when something's complete. The flexibility column flags which tasks are Fixed (can't slip) versus Moveable. The whole thing runs in 18 minutes if you've done it before — less if you already have your schedule drafted.

What's included: 1 Excel file (.xlsx), 5-phase interactive checklist (30 tasks total), auto-status tracking (colour-coded Done/In Progress/Not Started), review prompts per phase, flexibility flags (Fixed/Moveable/External), weekly reset design, Google Sheets compatible.