Millennials changing US restaurants

Providers inspired to offer convenient, healthy and visually-appealing food

When it comes to what to eat, 24-year-old Wall Street banker Misty Xia has a fixed routine: A homemade breakfast of oatmeal and chopped fruits, which takes no more than 10 minutes to prepare, and two takeout meals for the rest of the day from nearby restaurants. Most of the time, the takeout meals are a salad or other low-carbohydrate, low-fat options,

Xia is a millennial - someone born from 1981 to 1996. People in this group are on the way to becoming the largest consumer group for food and beverages in the United States, according to research done this year by real estate service company CBRE. And they have roughly $4 trillion in spending power.