A machine for producing and dispensing liquid or semiliquid food products, includes: a holding vat for a liquid base product a treatment circuit for treating the liquid base product to obtain a liquid or semiliquid food product a dispensing mechanism to dispense the food product one or more actuators acting on the base product, food product and/or parts of the machine and one or more sensors for detecting one or more operating parameters of the machine. The machine further includes an interfacing unit preferably provided with a control card operatively associated with at least one of the one or more sensors to receive a respective one of the one or more operating parameters and transmit it to a remote processing unit.
