你好 is the most common way to say if you guys are not friends(if you say it to friends, it's very very weird), actually, it's not common and natural to say你吃了吗 as greeting, at least young people definitely don't use that. (but it's ok using it as a question.)
So, for your question, what do we use to say like "how's going" in English,well, actually we just say "hi" add "最近怎样啊" to our friends.(and I personally like just to say "hey" to my friends)........