The Protagonist Runs a Restaurant: The Shop Is on the First Floor and the Bedrooms Are Upstairs 主角开饭馆的店铺是一楼，二楼睡觉，

1. 1 美 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食：我的小店，名震全球 Sleeping Cat熟睡的猫Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 9.6kReads9.0Score796Shelves

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   ⭐First Book: The protagonist starts by selling wontons outside a police station, and soon opens a restaurant, selling food on the first floor and living on the second. Perfectly matches the title! If not, come at me! No female lead, lighthearted and slice-of-life style, purely a food-themed novel, without any scheming, backstabbing, or face-slapping plots. ⭐Second Book: (Doesn't match the title, but it's good!) Although it's a food novel, the protagonist doesn't own a shop, just sets up a stall, with random locations and random dishes. It leans towards an ensemble cast style, also lighthearted and slice-of-life, no face-slapping, no melodramatic plots, no female lead, quite similar to the first book.

2. 2 这 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 Selling Egg Burgers!卖鸡蛋汉堡咯Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 83kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves
3. 3 让 You Want Me to Open a Breakfast Shop? I Only Open in the Afternoon 让我开早餐店？我下午才营业 I'm the Behind-the-Scenes Shit Cook我是幕后煮屎人Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [System] [Gourmet Food] [Healing] [Lighthearted Comedy] No heartburn while reading! Enjoy without worry! Fan Li used to manage livestream operations. Under pressure, he developed insomnia, showed up late, and was fired. Then he unexpectedly obtained a God-Tier Breakfast System. But his old daily routine had nothing in common with the schedule of selling breakfast. Customer 1: What! In this godforsaken place, he dares to charge eighty-eight yuan for a steamer of soup dumplings? Customer 2: When i 228.2kReads8.5Score16.7kShelves

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   In this book, it seems the protagonist is living a really enjoyable life.

4. 4 江 A Taste of Jiangnan 江南小食记 Braised Pork红烧肉Ancient Romance203k WordsOngoing Jiangnan water-town setting + laid-back daily life + gourmet business + no romance + adorable little sister After transmigrating into a family in a Jiangnan water town, Jiang Yun decides to lie flat and make the most of eating and having fun! She runs a little shop by the river and enjoys the slow, easygoing rhythm of life in Jiangnan. At home, she makes soft, chewy osmanthus rice cakes, pork belly braised with bamboo shoots, and fragrant beggar's chicken that draws people from every corner of 2kReads—Score174Shelves

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   This is a delicious food-themed novel. The female lead's cooking is incredibly tempting, and there's also an adorable little sister. The atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable, reminiscent of a Jiangnan water town. It's a heartwarming and lighthearted slice-of-life story, without any awful arguments or drama. It's perfect for listening to and helps you fall asleep easily.

5. 5 带 I Left With Nothing but My Daughter, and Got a Dumpling Shop as a Reward 带女儿净身出户，奖励一家饺子铺 Wang Xue, Who Loves Dingshi Crisps爱吃顶市酥的王血Urban536k WordsCompleted [Urban life + doting dad + farming + tycoon + System + everyday life] [The author humbly begs all you kind readers not to let this novel pile up in your reading list, or it’ll be doomed! Your support means a lot to me. Thanks for reading along!] After five years of marriage, they reached the end of the road. To win custody of his daughter, Ye Chen chose to walk away with nothing. But just after receiving his divorce certificate, a strange, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind. “Ding! H 560Reads8.5Score101Shelves

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   [Please follow] Looking for books by Lingzi? 🔥 The first book features a protagonist who unexpectedly meets his high school teacher and has two babies. After being rejected by his teacher, he learns of the babies' existence, gains a system, and starts with a shop. His delicious food becomes a hit. [Laughs] ⭐ The second book features a protagonist who, after divorcing his wife, gains a system and a dumpling shop. He and his daughter start a warm and cozy life in the small dumpling shop.

6. 6 穿 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 The Little Cat Fell Asleep小猫睡了Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 30.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves

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   A very heartwarming food-themed novel, every chapter is a dish name, making my mouth water 🤤! The female lead starts by selling boxed lunches at construction sites 🍱, later taking over a shop and opening her own restaurant. The male and female leads get along like an old married couple, and the people around them are all very nice, with no awful characters. The male lead's life trajectory is completely different from typical angst novels. It's so good, I even cried while reading the extra chapters 😭

7. 7 厨 God of Cooking: A Little Restaurant from the Start, Making the Cultivation World Drool 厨神：开局小食肆，馋哭修真界 Qi Muzi栖木子Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted Gourmet, healing, no System, no romance, raising a daughter. After transmigrating from the apocalypse to the Cultivation Realm, Yang Feng runs a small eatery. Despite its humble size, the place is packed with big shots from every realm. The Demon Clan's holy maiden: “Waaah, mapo tofu is so delicious! I accidentally ate three more buckets of rice.” A sect leader: “The giant pork knuckle is the best! I can polish off ten in one go!” A celestial master: “I’ve read the signs, and today is a good day 3.8kReads8.7Score350Shelves

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   ✨✨1⃣ Five years of marriage came to an end. Ye Chen chose to leave with nothing in order to gain custody of his daughter. However, after receiving the divorce certificate, a hollow, mechanical voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

8. 8 有 What Is Wrong with You? I Just Graduated, and a Mature Teacher Is Already at My Door 有病吧！刚毕业，御姐教师找上门 Half a Popsicle半根雪糕Urban371k WordsOngoing [System + adorable kids + food + goddess + everyday life running a shop] [Click in, and you definitely won't be disappointed!] [Living with a gorgeous older woman] After graduation, Chen Ziqiu, whose confession had been rejected, received some news: the teacher he had once admired had given birth to twin daughters for him. [The leads have a seven-year age gap, older woman-younger man romance] Good heavens, the goddess was also his mother's colleague and best friend. What was he supposed to do ab 13Reads8.8Score—Shelves
9. 9 疯 Are You Crazy? I Just Opened a Restaurant, and the Campus Belle Shows Up With a Child 疯了吧！刚开餐厅校花带娃找上门 Half a Popsicle半根雪糕Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Adorable Kids + Food + Campus Beauty + System + Everyday Life Running a Restaurant] Also known as: “Gourmet Cooking Starts with a Bowl of Egg Noodles,” “The Late-Night Diner: A Foodie’s Paradise,” “A Delicious Diner for Dad,” and “You Told Me to Be a Couch Potato, but I’m Determined to Be a Master Chef!” Su Feng chose to live as a couch potato, but somehow ended up bound to the “Universe’s Number One Cooking Master” System and became the owner of a little restaurant! From that moment on, his co 17.3kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
10. 10 孤 Running a Food Stall Alone with My Little Sister, We Take the World by Storm 孤身带妹，我的小吃摊火爆全球 Big Whale Blowing Bubbles大鲸鱼吹泡泡Urban2.7M WordsCompleted Su Yang is raising his three-year-old younger sister all by himself when he unexpectedly binds to the Divine Snack Stall System. So he starts selling buns on a bridge late at night, roast chicken in the park at dawn, pork intestines outside a proctology hospital, and barbecue at a marathon… The food Su Yang makes leaves customers coming back for more, completely hooked. But to complete his missions, Su Yang can only set up his stall at random locations each time. Soon, his customers can’t take i 8kReads8.1Score900Shelves
11. 11 我 I Opened a B&B in the Apocalypse and Shocked Both the Living and the Dead 我在末世开民宿，震惊人鬼两界 Cool and Pale凉白白Sci-Fi & Apocalypse166k WordsCompleted [P.S.: Apocalypse + Running a business + Romance, with a loyal-dog-type male lead. Not your traditional apocalypse business story, with a touch of healing. Important: This story has a couple, it has a couple!] Jiang Ran is a ghost, and a rather slow-witted one at that. She has no lingering regrets and no memories. Because her soul is incomplete, one group of friends after another has come and gone, yet she still hasn’t managed to reincarnate. Her favorite thing to do each day is squat beside Lad 120Reads8.0Score—Shelves
12. 12 时 Space-Time Merchant: Managing the Planes 时空商人：位面经营 Shu Yu殊与Modern Romance420k WordsCompleted [Interdimensional Trading + No Romance + System + Light Ensemble Cast + Not a Saintly Heroine + Female-Oriented] Li Jin is a space-time merchant who travels between worlds to do business. 1. Apocalypse World: Cities lie in ruins, their former splendor gone. Humanity kneels with faces covered, weeping in anguish, overwhelmed by despair and desolation. 2. Survival at Sea: When everyone is forced into a survival world, how will they gather supplies with only a raft and a fishing rod? 3. Desert Sand 1.1kReads8.4Score108Shelves
13. 13 美 Gourmet: I Inherit a Little Shop and Take the Whole Country by Storm! 美食：继承小店的我火爆全国！ Lucky Carp Fairy锦鲤小仙Urban632k WordsCompleted [No female lead romance + laid-back daily life + opening and upgrading a restaurant + lovingly detailed food descriptions and steady growth!] Su Baihang took over a restaurant from his parents. It was located inside a tourist attraction and was on the verge of closing. Luckily, the Strongest Culinary God System activated! Who says the food at tourist attractions can’t be delicious? Homestyle cabbage stir-fried with vinegar: sweet and sour, and even helps you lose weight! Red-braised pork: tender 1.1kReads8.7Score102Shelves

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    This means that the first floor is for selling food, and the second floor is for sleeping.

14. 14 穿 Reborn as the Villainous First Wife, I Rely on the Mountains to Feed My Family 穿成恶毒原配，我靠山吃山养家 Hey, Little Chestnut阿栗子哎Ancient Romance904k WordsOngoing [Farming + Everyday Life + Making a Fortune + Slow and Steady + No Golden Finger] A word of warning: This isn’t the kind of story where she suddenly gets rich and buys fields and shops. There’s the occasional bit of delicious food. During a quick nap at lunch, Guan Ning somehow snoozes herself into becoming the vicious, insufferable first wife in a novel. As soon as she opens her eyes, she’s discussing with her mother how to drug a man and sleep with him. They’re dirt poor, yet she dreams of bec 72.8kReads8.8Score7.8kShelves

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    Without any special advantages, the female protagonist grows step by step.

15. 15 周 The Saturday Otherworld Cafeteria 周六异世界食堂 Wen Ling温靈Modern Romance915k WordsCompleted Xin Beimò was forced to quit her dead-end job after five years. Disheartened, she inherits a humble private restaurant in a small county town from a distant relative. She expects life to carry on quietly, but the very next day after taking over, she opens the door to a whole new world and receives a pass that lets her connect to other worlds. Thus begins her extraordinary adventure running an interdimensional dining hall! 1. Inspired by the anime Restaurant to Another World, with some elements 1.1kReads8.4Score134Shelves

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    Xin Beimo, disheartened after five years of being a corporate slave and forced to resign, inherited a small, ordinary family-run restaurant in a small county town from a distant relative. She thought life would continue uneventfully, but unexpectedly, on the very second day after inheriting the restaurant, she opened the door to a new world, gaining a pass to another dimension. Thus began her extraordinary journey of running a restaurant in another world!

16. 16 不 A Chef Who Can’t Grow Vegetables Isn’t a Good Landlady 不会种菜的厨师不是好包租婆 Whispers from the Southern Mountain南山枝语Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted At the crucial moment of his training, Zhu Ganglie crashes into Jiang Qingxi. Her vision goes black, then white, and... closes again. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in her life before last? In that life, she had land, a house, and a car in the countryside, but insisted on heading to the big city to make her way in the world. Before she could get anywhere, she died and woke up in another world. Her master brought her into the trade, and after twenty years she was about to succeed. Who would 1.1kReads6.9Score104Shelves

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    These are all modern food articles that I've been saving for a while. Highly recommend them! [Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

17. 17 进 After Moving to the City to Farm, Every Powerful Tycoon Wants Me as Their Master 进城种地后豪门权贵都想拜我为师 Cat Who Loves Houttuynia折耳根的猫Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + Food + Everyone’s Favorite] Jiang Mengyun is a young woman who absolutely loves farming. From the countryside to the city, from luxurious mansions to mysterious research bases, there’s no patch of land she can’t turn into a field! Mansion owner: My multimillion-dollar mansion! It’s covered in loofah vines! School administrator: My rooftop garden! It’s full of giant radishes! Senior from her sect: My medicinal herb garden! I have to search through cabbages to find the herbs! Lu Jingyua 15.2kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
18. 18 美 Gourmet: My Restaurant Is Anything but Normal 美食：我家餐馆不正常 The Fish in the Flatfish比目鱼的鱼Modern Romance624k WordsCompleted When Lin Zhixin was thirteen, she received the legacy of the Old Ancestor of the God of Cookery and began learning to cook in her dreams. On the day she graduated from college, the Old Ancestor told her there was an inheritance waiting for her. But there was one condition: she had to open a restaurant! She opened one, but Lin Zhixin felt there was something off about it. The prep cook was a koi spirit on the verge of ascending through a tribulation. The food runner was a Taotie who was never ful 163Reads8.1Score204Shelves
19. 19 厨 The Day the Chef Left, the Diners Wept Until Their Tears Ran Dry 厨子跑的那一天，食客老泪都流干 A Flower of Pork Knuckle一朵肘子花Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Xu Yuan never expected that, as a recent college graduate, he would one day get bound to a System. The System said, “As a chef, your job is to let diners experience delicious food.” Then it added, “But as the creator of delicious food, how can you let work tie you down?” And so... “Ding! This month’s mission: Apply for a job as a restaurant chef, then quit after working for half a month to claim your System reward...” Xu Yuan: “You little schemer!” And so it went. Restaurant owner: “I’m not brag 8.8kReads8.5Score802Shelves
20. 20 从 After Returning from the Immortal Realm, I Made a Fortune Through Farming 从仙界穿回来后我靠种田发家致富 Riding a Donkey and Lighting a Lamp骑驴点灯Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [No spatial dimension, no System, a slight golden finger, spirit-spring farming, reclaiming the hills behind the house, cozy food and everyday life. There is a couple, but the male lead doesn't get much screen time. Big shots gradually enter the story later.] A spirit jade brought back from the immortal realm changed Xu Xia's life as an overworked office drone. When the jade dew flows, gold and silver follow. She'd finally been reborn. Who would be a workhorse now? Only a fool! Xu Xia immedi 31kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
21. 21 被 After Getting Canceled Online, I Became a Sensation by Farming 被全网黑后，我靠种地爆红全网 Dragon's Toothwort龙芽草Modern Romance1.8M WordsOngoing Original title: After Being Hated by the Entire Internet, I Became Famous by Farming! [Farming] [Not focused on the entertainment industry] [Selling produce] [Livestream] [Raising children] [Cozy] [Everyday life] [Healing] [Romance] Jiang Wanning, a spirit-plant cultivator, transmigrated into the body of a female celebrity hated by the entire internet. Everyone was calling for her to get out of showbiz. Jiang Wanning was happy to take their advice. She packed up and headed back to her hometown i 37.7kReads9.1Score2.4kShelves
22. 22 穿 After Transmigrating into a Book and Returning to the Village to Farm, Powerful Figures Come to Retire with Me 穿书回村种田后各方大佬都来养老 Xiaozhe's Mom小哲妈Modern Romance661k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate Into a Book + Farming + Raising a Child + System + Livestreaming + Slice of Life + Mutual Firsts] [The male lead seems abstinent and taciturn on the outside, but has a lot going on in his head. He has fewer scenes early on, but gets more once he finds his wife.] Tang Xuemei had an indescribable dream. When she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated into a book and become the male lead’s ex-wife. Remembering the original character’s tragic fate and the familiar figure in her 5kReads8.9Score642Shelves
23. 23 八 A Young Couple in the 1980s: Their Life as Migrant Workers Down South 八十年代小夫妻，南下打工日常 Potato Stews Potatoes in a Pot土豆用锅炖土豆Modern Romance184k WordsCompleted Totally fictional, totally fictional, totally fictional! Important things must be said three times. Don't argue over the details. When reading a novel, there's no need to take it as seriously as the college entrance exam. Just have fun. [No golden finger + no pocket dimension + no college entrance exam] It all takes place in a small village in the north. As one of the first young couples to head south for work, what will their future hold? Let's wait and see... 721Reads5.9Score—Shelves

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    🔥🔥🔥After the female lead and the male lead got married, they went south to work. The male lead worked in a factory, while the female lead initially ran a boxed lunch business. Later, she slowly saved money to buy a small house, opened a restaurant on the first floor, and lived on the second floor. Then, the female lead gradually recruited her brothers and sisters to work and earn money!

24. 24 我 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 Fiery Cabbage火爆的白菜Urban1.2M WordsOngoing [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 69.8kReads8.3Score7.5kShelves

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    You should definitely read this one; it's a food-themed novel about opening a restaurant. Other food novels get boring after a few chapters, but this one gets better and better the more you read.

25. 25 绑 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 Dean Xiang香院长Urban829k WordsOngoing The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 24kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves

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    This author has a deep understanding of food; many dishes can be replicated. The dishes are quite fresh and unique; at least many common dishes in novels haven't appeared yet. Even in the latest chapter, fried rice hasn't appeared on the menu. The customers are also very interesting. It's a lighthearted and heartwarming slice-of-life story. There's no female lead, and the comments section is full of positive reviews. In the first week, the protagonist sells savory tofu pudding, sweet tofu pudding, spicy tofu pudding, crispy pork tofu pudding, tea eggs, and scallion pancakes—all very fresh and the author writes them very enticingly. They look delicious! There are professional and detailed cooking processes, as well as down-to-earth customer reactions.

26. 26 宠 Dotting-Dad: From the Start, I Own a Restaurant 宠妻奶爸：开局一家美食餐厅 The Great Gourmet大美食家Urban817k WordsCompleted P.S. This is a sweet story about a devoted dad, food, and everyday life. No brainless showing off and face-slapping, and no mindless tycoon antics. After getting drunk over his failed startup, Su Feng unexpectedly met a treasure of a woman who looked like a goddess! When they met again, she brought him two adorable twin baby girls, and he gained a magical Super Dad Cooking System. Su Feng: “Make a fortune? Open a chain of restaurants? No need. I just want to provide for Youchu and my two preciou 1.7kReads9.2Score128Shelves

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    🍒The male protagonist's business venture fails, but he encounters a wonderful girl. A year later, the girl comes to find him with a pair of twins. At this time, the male protagonist runs a small restaurant; the first floor is the shop, and the second floor is his residence.

27. 27 傻 Once the Silly Girl Smartens Up, the Wen Family’s Ancestors Must Be Smiling from Their Graves 傻女不傻后，老闻家的祖坟冒青烟 Ink-Dyed Green Wound Tears墨染圊殇泪Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + food + farming + sweet romance + doted on by the whole family + devoted husband + badass heroine + no golden finger] In her previous life, Wen Zhenyi was a top chef in public and a bounty hunter in secret. After a car accident, she transmigrated into the body of a dim-witted young woman in an alternate dynasty. She thought she had transmigrated to another world, but it turned out her soul had simply returned to its rightful body. Her family had spent everything they had and pil 6.8kReads9.0Score643Shelves

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    🍊A food novel! Every dish is described beautifully, creating vivid imagery that will make your mouth water! 🤭 It's a heartwarming story about the whole family setting up a food stall, full of local flavor and rich in content. A must-read! 👍👍

28. 28 末 Apocalypse Management: I Build a Shopping District with a Scavenging System 末世经营：我靠拾荒系统建起商圈 Good Harvest丰年Sci-Fi & Apocalypse520k WordsCompleted Business management / scavenging / ensemble cast / not a strong female lead / not invincible In the tenth year of the wasteland apocalypse, Shen Wuqiao wakes up in a coffin and sees the dead wandering all over the place. Without supernatural abilities, she's a useless outcast the base doesn't want. But she's also the only uncontaminated pure being, and she's bound to a System that turns trash into treasure: “Picked up 1 empty braised beef noodle cup, reward: 10 cups of braised beef noodles...” S 127.9kReads8.5Score13.6kShelves

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    The first book features a system shop that upgrades, four older brothers (one of whom is his biological brother), a real and fake heiress, and face-slapping scenes. The second book is a check-in novel with no male lead and is more comedic.

29. 29 末 Apocalypse: I Ride a Tricycle and Run a Mobile Supermarket from the Start 末世：开局蹬三轮，经营移动超市 Su Zhi Cat苏栀猫Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted [System + business management + no romance pairing + ridiculous comedy + invincible] After six months of being a sucker in a new world, Jiang He finally gets her super-powered business System. Once bound to it, she hops on a little three-wheeled cart and runs a mobile supermarket. She also has to complete all sorts of bizarre sign-in missions to earn time for stocking up. [Host, go sign in at the center of the storm to earn one minute of stocking time!] [Host, see that volcano? Take it down and 13.7kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
30. 30 海 Island Management Simulator 海岛模拟经营 A Friend of the Mu Family木木家的友人Modern Romance333k WordsOngoing [No romance + food + world-building + game apocalypse + pet spirits, slice of life] [Player Monet detected. Island Management System bound!] When Monet, who can’t swim, wakes up, she finds herself adrift on a raft in the middle of a vast ocean. There’s no one around, only a System that has forcibly bound itself to her. [...Please select a business type.] Food is essential to life, so she chooses a restaurant. [Congratulations, player! You’ve received one Mini Cozy Restaurant.] Th 58Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This was originally a ship with many restaurants, small eateries, milk tea shops, hot pot restaurants, pubs, etc. The staff dormitory was on the first floor, the second floor was a petting zoo, and the third floor and above were inns. It was pretty good.

31. 31 简 I Set Up a Simple Stall and Made 300,000 [The 1990s] 简单摆个摊，挣了三十万【九零】 Love Daydreaming~爱做白日梦～Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Back in 1992, Chen Baiyun resolutely quits her job. She'll make her fortune by quitting and setting up a street stall! She only meant to save up some start-up money, but somehow she ends up making 300,000 yuan. Chen Baiyun: “Well, we should hurry up and buy it!” Cars, houses, gold, shops: she wants them all. As for that awful swindler who married her for money and his family, they can get lost. No one is going to disturb the hard-won happiness she's found. [Little everyday spending sprees] Chen 15.5kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves

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    The story is about a woman who is reborn and goes to the city with her husband to set up a stall, earn money, and buy a house. The first floor is a restaurant, and the second floor is their living quarters.

32. 32 嫁 I Married the Richest Man, Had a Beloved Baby, and Now All My Stepkids Are Overprotective Brothers 嫁首富，生团宠，继子全员护妹狂 Mo Mo's Mo漠漠的陌Modern Romance529k WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation, Shock! The Rugged Factory Director Is a Wife-Doting Maniac, is now available. (1980s + Married First, Love Later + Everyday Life Raising Kids + Family Matters + Rugged Husband Dotes on His Wife + Mutual Devotion + Beloved by the Whole Family) A beauty blogger travels back to the 1980s and becomes a woman four months pregnant. But she was supposed to marry a wild, rugged man with washboard abs and overflowing masculinity, so how did he turn into an old, ugly eunuch? An 2.7kReads9.3Score324Shelves

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    In this vast sea of ​​books, I'll guide you. [Please follow] The female protagonist transmigrates and has already made a name for herself in the male protagonist's village. She opens a flagship store in the city, with the first floor for entertaining guests and the second floor for living quarters.

33. 33 我 I'm an Average Cook, Yet the Villagers Won't Stop Singing My Praises! 我厨艺平平，硬被乡亲吹爆了！ A Flower of Pork Knuckle一朵肘子花Urban506k WordsCompleted The folks in Wang Yang’s hometown are friendly, close-knit, and full of community spirit! But every last one of them has a bad habit: they love to brag, always saying things like, “So-and-so from our village is amazing!” That was all well and good, until they found out Wang Yang had opened a small restaurant in the county town near his hometown... “I’m not bragging, but someone from my village opened a restaurant in our county town. Just thinking about his cooking makes my mouth water...” “If yo 3.2kReads8.1Score160Shelves

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    Perfectly matches the title.

34. 34 我 I Serve Manchu-Han Banquets at Kindergarten, Making the Whole City Drool 我在幼儿园做满汉全席，全市馋哭 Fairy Pond Koi仙池锦鲤Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted 24.5kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves

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    The first book has a male protagonist with a chef system who runs a restaurant with incredibly delicious food. The second book has a female protagonist who runs a kindergarten where the chefs are master chefs, making netizens' mouths water.

35. 35 我 I Sell Gourmet Food in Another World to Serve My Country 我靠在异世卖美食，报效祖国 Rinsing Stones and Resting on Books漱石枕书Ancient Romance931k WordsOngoing God of Cooking System + Transmigration Between Worlds + Leveling Up + Gourmet Food + Daily Life (Warning) The early chapters are a slow burn. Later, she'll get support from the country. The heroine is just a plot device, and the story has quite a few original elements. After graduating, Lin Xiaoqian can't find a job, so she plans to go home and open a shop. She follows the trend and binds herself to a God of Cooking System. Every completed mission earns her a reward. After completing the beginne 1.5kReads8.6Score181Shelves

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    The female protagonist is tied to a restaurant; after renovations, she opens the shop on the first floor and moves in on the second. Later, she reveals her secret to the government, showing that she has powerful backing and can travel between different worlds.

36. 36 听 I Can Understand Furry Creatures, and Now I'm the Dali Temple's Lucky Mascot 听懂毛茸茸，我成了大理寺吉祥物 Pumpkin Zhou南瓜周Ancient Romance587k WordsCompleted [Fluffy animals + food business + doted on by everyone + gossip] Chang Le dozed off at her desk and transmigrated. She became a debt-ridden woman in the Great Jing Kingdom, with elders above her and children to support below. She also got the ability to understand fluffy animals as a bonus. · The shop is about to go under? No problem. She grabbed a wok spatula and saved the family business. Mala dry pot, jianbing guozi, scallion and egg pancakes... The food made customers drool, and they all com 2.2kReads8.9Score308Shelves

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    The protagonist can understand what small animals are saying, and he runs a restaurant while also working as a pet consultant.

37. 37 我 I’m a Head Chef at Hengdian 我在横店当大厨 Cakehead Y蛋糕脑袋YModern Romance197k WordsCompleted The heroine, Wei Shengyu, has a System space, which she uses to chase after celebrities in Hengdian. In Hengdian, Wei Shengyu gets to see many of the stars she likes. It would have been very difficult to make this happen otherwise, but with the System, it becomes easy. (The author is sensitive, and welcomes feedback, but please don't insult me. If you don't like it, feel free to leave. Thank you!) 732Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    Opening a shop in Hengdian involves celebrities, including Wang Junkai (who is also a popular on-screen couple).

38. 38 美 Gourmet: A Restaurant Across from the High School 美食：高中对面开饭馆 Haruna春名Modern Romance649k WordsOngoing [Everyday life + delicious food] [Male protagonist] [No romance] The romance tag wasn’t my choice, sob Orz [July 28: I just saw that the rating is up! Thank you all for rating my story (bows). Thanks for your support.] Yao Yiji works overtime to support his sister’s two children, then collapses at his desk. Bound to System 677, he’s told that completing his mission will send him back to the day before he died suddenly. After the mission ends, he returns to the present day with System 677. He pla 634Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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    Yao Yiji collapsed at her desk after working overtime to support her sister's two children. Bound to System 677, she was told that completing a task would allow her to return to the day before her sudden death. After completing the task, she returned to the real world with System 677. She plans to quit her job, go home, and open her family's restaurant. [Eating popcorn][Eating popcorn]

39. 39 系 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ Shengsheng Shushu生生疏Urban879k WordsOngoing [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves

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    It's good-looking because the protagonist learns to cook, prices are low, and he buys the ingredients himself. The funniest thing is that the system rewards the protagonist for working.

40. 40 重 Back to 2005: A Little Wealth Is Enough 重回零五，小富即安 The Tiger That Doesn't Show Its Claws不发威的老虎Modern Romance680k WordsCompleted A story about a heroine who has nothing but her beauty returning to the age of ten and helping herself and her family build a better life. A heartwarming story. At first, she keeps her parents focused on starting a business so she can become a rich second-generation kid. The male lead appears later. Just after graduating from university, Li Wanwan woke up to find herself back in 2005, in the summer when she was ten years old. That summer, her parents returned from working in the south. They were 11kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves

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    The female protagonist is reborn at the age of ten and begins to help her parents seize various opportunities. Her parents started as a street vendor selling fast food, later taking over a shop and opening a business on the first and second floors, with living quarters on the third. The family works hard to change their life trajectory, choosing to live a stable and down-to-earth life rather than get rich quick.

41. 41 带 I Opened a Breakfast Shop with My Daughter and Made Millions of People Drool 带女儿开早餐店，馋哭千万国民 Loves Beef爱吃牛肉Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Food + System + dad life + cozy everyday moments] After divorcing his wife, Ye Cheng becomes a single father. One day, he awakens the Culinary God System and opens a breakfast shop with his three-year-old daughter. With the simplest cooking methods, Ye Cheng creates incredibly delicious food. His daughter's classmates meow with longing, customers come in an endless stream, and more and more people flock to his shop, all left drooling with tears in their eyes… 857Reads7.6Score103Shelves

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    Both of these books feature protagonists who, with system rewards, open food shops and raise daughters. Although they rely on the system, the food descriptions are still very engaging, and the children are super cute! [Heart emoji]

42. 42 带 Opening a Restaurant with My Daughter, Starting on This Street 带女儿开美食店，从这条街开始 A Cocoon Beneath the Stars星空下的茧Urban121k WordsCompleted Eight years ago, he was thrown out of his family home. Now, the once-disowned young master has returned in triumph with his daughter. Was he going back for revenge? To reclaim his place in the family? This time, he was only returning to fulfill his daughter's wish: to open a small restaurant in the capital. He settled into a peaceful life, never expecting to get a sign-in Food System and awaken an SSS-rank talent from the start: Gourmet Moon Reading. [Simulating the rise of an invincible powerho 28Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 43 成 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 Fried Hawthorn油炸山楂Urban460k WordsOngoing The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.2kReads8.9Score277Shelves

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    This is a pretty good food novel. The recipes are described in great detail, and food lovers can totally try making the dishes based on the author's descriptions. [Laughing][Laughing][Laughing and crying][Laughing and crying]

44. 44 开 From the Start, I Lost My Job: Selling Lunchboxes on the Way Home 开局就失业：返乡途中卖盒饭 Wind Quenches Flowers风熄花Urban3.6M WordsCompleted [A System golden finger, food, fast meals and lunch boxes, a leisurely slice-of-life pace, no romance in the main story. At readers’ request, the bonus chapters have a male lead. Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented, said three times.] After working hard for three years, he’d just been made a full-time employee when the restaurant he worked at shut down. Bai Ye drove home in the secondhand car his boss had given him in lieu of pay, a heap of junk piled in the back. He never expected a S 33.8kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves

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    This is the one! ☺️

45. 45 糊 After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, This Has-Been Opens a Restaurant and Takes the Internet by Storm 糊咖退圈后，开饭馆爆红全网 There's a Pear有只梨Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted As a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world, Ming Tang idly watched someone else's lightning tribulation. As luck would have it, she took a direct hit and died a miserable, ridiculously unlucky death. When she opened her eyes again, she was a little-known actress in the modern entertainment industry. After turning down her unscrupulous agent's dinner-party demand, Ming Tang took the agent's advice to go home and sell roasted sweet potatoes, and promptly returned home to open a small restauran 480Reads7.1Score—Shelves
46. 46 御 Beast Taming: I Really Just Want to Run a Peaceful Restaurant 御兽：我真的只想安稳的开饭店 The Fish Who Loves Writing Books爱写书的鱼Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Food + opening a shop + everyday life + lighthearted fun + beast taming + System] Also known as: “The Stories I Couldn't Tell About Me and the System,” “A Leisurely Life with Three Little Ones,” “I'm Unbeatable in My Restaurant, So Do Whatever You Like,” and “Shocking! My Three Pet Beasts Are All Big Shots” Foodie Jiang Ming drinks a century-old, top-quality Daughter Red and unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where he gains a Spirit Chef System. At first, Jiang Min 16.1kReads8.8Score2.5kShelves

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    A novel about beast taming, featuring gourmet food, a small, unassuming restaurant, and three mythical beast pets.

47. 47 靠 Running an Inn with Gacha Draws 靠抽卡经营旅馆 Moon Over Heaven月关天Modern Romance614k WordsCompleted [Business Management + Card Draws + Food + No Romance] Unable to find a job, Su He takes over her family's small hotel, which is on the verge of closing. Luckily, Su He binds herself to a card-drawing System! The Princess and the Pea's bed, delicacies from Dream of the Red Chamber, a magical vine elevator… all kinds of wondrous items appear. The maids from Dream of the Red Chamber want to kowtow to Su He three times. Su He says, “We're all equal in modern society. We don't do that anymore.” The 4kReads8.8Score430Shelves

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    The article is very interesting. It's about running a business, watching a small inn gradually improve from its dilapidated state, and the feedback from the owners and guests gives me a strange sense of satisfaction.

48. 48 失 After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万 A Foodie's Appetite吃货的吃Urban761k WordsOngoing [Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and 634Reads—Score109Shelves
49. 49 我 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 Half-Sweet Iced Coffee, No Extra Ice冰咖半糖不加冰Urban1.7M WordsCompleted This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin 81.6kReads9.3Score8.4kShelves
50. 50 厨 I'm a Chef, Yet Somehow I'm Li Er's Son-in-Law 厨师的我，竟是李二的女婿 Happy Little Crawler幸福的爬爬虫Historical2.0M WordsCompleted Yin Xuan transmigrates to the seventh year of the Zhenguan era in the Tang dynasty, where he becomes the owner of a tavern and awakens the Myriad Realms Cuisine System. From then on, his life changes completely. A plate of tomato and egg stir-fry leaves Cheng Yaojin and his two sons singing its praises, while a bowl of wine gets Li Shimin dead drunk. Every dish he makes sets trends throughout the Tang dynasty. Cheng Yaojin: Little brother, how about we become sworn brothers? We don’t have to be 14.8kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves

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