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The Golden Krust

Terminal 8•Arrivals / Baggage Claim•Pre-Security

Hours

5:30 AM - 11:30 PM

A Jamaican fastfood restaurant offering patties and more.

Finding it

The Golden Krust is in Arrivals / Baggage Claim in Terminal 8 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.

Level
1

Terminal 8 has 49 places to eat and 50 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.

Hours against the security queue

The Golden Krust opens at 5:30am and closes at 11:30pm. 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.

Other options in Terminal 8

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

Sources

Official Travel Resources

1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.

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