you've heard of cafe au barista x customer and costumer x costumer- but what about barista x barista. rival baristas if you will

they will fight each other so much over the DUMBEST shit i tells ya! "didn't pour it right" "froth isn't frothy enough" "bet i can make it faster" all that junk. they also critique one another's works once their done. docking points for sloppy work that was done in exchange for sparing time

it's funny cause they make these rivalry drinks for the other to drink and rate, and as results it actually helps them become better baristas. they hate one another's asses but they're retroactively helping each other train.... well- hate is a misunderstanding of the feelings they have anyways

i think they also do drink fights where they try and make something brand new that will be something the other really enjoys, as results both have very good ideas of what one another's preferences are and- god okay so i have some hcs

i hc Shuichi is the one who drinks his coffee with a lot of creamers, and Kokichi likes black coffees. so just imagine Shuichi noticing how Kokichi struggles to down his milk/creamer drinks, and while he still makes them for latte art fights, for the custom drink fights he tried not using any cream/milk and Kokichi for the first time he's ever seen was able to drink it without hesitating. he still adds other things like tea and chocolates and so on in it, but without the milk/creamer Kokichi is way more happy and Shuichi is proud he managed to figure that out

on the other end Kokichi figured out Shuichi likes two things in a coffee outside of just creamers: smooth but calm general taste, and a spice kick. Kokichi cannot relate, but he can make a mean chai latte for him