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The Halal Guys

Terminal 5•Gates 525•Pre-Security
Sandwiches

Hours

5:00 AM - 11:00 PM

The Halal Guys serves "American halal" platters and sandwiches, prepared using ingredients such as chicken, gyro meat, falafel, and rice.

Finding it

The Halal Guys is in Gates 525 in Terminal 5 near Gates 525 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.

Nearest gates
Gates 525
Level
3

Terminal 5 has 33 places to eat and 8 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 3:30am.

Hours against the security queue

The Halal Guys opens at 5am and closes at 11pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 28 minutes around 5am.

Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.

Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.

About this location

The Halal Guys posts a 5 a.m.-to-11 p.m. window at gate 525, one of the few counters in this stretch of Terminal 5 with published hours at all — Melt Shop next to it and Park Ave Emporium down the row don't post any. The early start covers the terminal's earliest departure bank, and the close near 11 p.m. reaches the last arrivals of the night. The menu is halal-only, a narrower lane than the breakfast-to-burgers spread at Melt Shop beside it.

What to expect

  • halal

Other options in Terminal 5

All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.

Sources

Official Travel Resources

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