Guide to ESPN Sports Bar and Grill for Facebook: Tips, tricks, cheats and hints

ESPN Sports Bar and Grill is a brand new bar and restaurant simulator for Facebook, but unlike others, this one has quite a different twist - that being that you run a sports bar, and if you choose, you can make it a sports bar dedicated to your favorite team. You can serve drinks, increase your buzz in order to earn higher revenues and attract more patrons to your bar, and your choice of team not only affects the design of your bar, it even affects your buzz and your customers' reactions when your team of choice is played on TV. The following tips, too, can help you build a very popular, very profitable bar of your own.

By far the fastest way to build buzz is by adding more ESPN Magazine Cover Frames to your wall and then putting covers into them. The small frames cost 400 coins and add 44 buzz to your bar, and the big frames cost 600 coins and add 68 buzz to your bar. Click on your ESPN Magazine cover frame and you will be given the option of one of many covers to buy, costing between 1 and 15 "bucks" to buy. Choose the cheapest cover and buy it, because no matter which cover you buy, you earn 320 extra buzz points, which is easily the best buzz deal in the entire game. Do this and your bar's income will increase very, very rapidly, as your star rating goes up and your patrons crowd your bar, paying you more for every beer, drink or dish of peanuts that they buy,

Before you waste any coins building decorations (other than the ESPN Magazine covers) to increase your buzz, build more drink stations and food stations first. Not only will food and drink stations increase your buzz, but they will allow you to make more money. Food stations will cost absolutely nothing to restock, and every time that they run out, they will earn you a "base pay" (for example, the peanut machine will earn you 26 coins every time its stock runs out). Drink machines are even better - you can restock them for a certain amount of time, and the stocking is cheap no matter how much time you restock them for. You can stock them for 24 hours and earn between 300-400 coins (depending on the machine), and if you restock for 48 hours, you'll earn between 600 and 700 coins (also depending on the machine), so the long term restocks are the ones which will earn you by far the most money unless you are constantly playing ESPN Sports Bar and Grill.

Your choice of team that's on TV at the time not only adds to your buzz, but it also changes depending on which team your bar supports. If you play a live game on your TV, your buzz will double compared to a comparable recorded game on TV. Games are also worth different amounts of buzz depending on how often the particular sport is played - for example, football games are worth more than baseball games (recorded baseball games are worth 29 buzz points, and recorded football games are worth 59 buzz points). Also, games involving the team that your bar supports are worth double the buzz points that other games are (if you run a New England Patriots bar for example, a recorded New England Patriots game will earn you 118 buzz points instead of 59. So choose your games carefully in order to earn the maximum amount of buzz, but ALWAYS have a game ready to play on your TV so that you can earn more buzz points, because you will always earn less buzz points if no games are on TV.

A quick way to earn money is by spending 2 bucks at a time to immediately sell your entire stock of beer (or whatever other drink you might be selling). It cost 2 bucks to sell your entire inventory immediately, no matter how long your beer fridge or your double tap is stocked for. To maximize monetary earnings, stock your double tap or beer fridge for 48 hours, and then sell it immediately for an easy 600 coins. However, your bucks are better spent filling ESPN magazine frames with ESPN Magazine covers, earning you massive amounts of buzz (even earning you more than 5 stars worth of buzz if you have enough buzz points, and then letting the money roll in quickly due to high profits and high patron traffic.

Maximize your earnings by filling combo orders (clicking more than one of the same type of order in a row). If you maximize your combo sizes, your profits will increase rapidly and so will your experience points. Try to earn combos of 4 or more for major profits and experience.

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