We will see how consumer sales go for the rest of the year. It is worth noting that the trade deficit has dramatically shrunk due to record oil exports.
Record Oil Exports Shrink Trade Deficit as U.S. Fills Energy Gap
"The gap shrank 20.7 percent to $38.5 billion, lower than any estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 73 economists and the least since January 2010, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The jump in fuel sales to overseas buyers, combined with purchases of the fewest barrels of imported crude in almost 16 years, led to the smallest petroleum deficit since August 2009."
I would expect the cheap fast food places to go up in a down economy, at least until it gets so bad that people can’t even afford THAT.