Stanno due bevande con il nome "macchiato". Sta espresso macchiato come puoi visto nella premia foto, è latte macchiato come puoi visto nella seconda.

Macchiato means "marked" or "dirtied". One is coffee dirtied with a little foam, and the other is milk dirtied with a little coffee.

Starbucks has to make it that way because their espresso and coffee taste like shit.

It's unfortunate Starbucks pulled the same thing with macchiatos that Taco Bell did with gorditas. Why couldn't they just use a different Italian sounding word?

Even Starbucks doesn't really call that just a macchiato. It's a latte macchiato. If it had Carmel on top and vanilla in the milk it would be a caramel macchiato. It both cases, to any fool that cared to pay attention, macchiato simply means marked. If you point that out to someone and you that rather than being right about what it's called, it quickly becomes clear if they are just rightly confused and ignorant or looking to start some drama. Some people get VERY aggressive when they sense any slight on their pride. Some people have some very outsized feelings about how Starbucks makes and names their products.

Same deal with the short, tall, grande, venti, trente vs. small, medium, large, 20oz, 30oz. confusion. That one was tricky because Karen's would misinterpret the calling of the drinks to the bar as a correction. Those people were generally miserable and hopeless.

Diplomatically negotiating these kinds of conversations is a special kind of hell, but the lessons can be valuable. Unfortunately, it's a skill that most people don't get paid enough for.