Fat Ronnie’s Burger Bar just got fatter.

Last week, the Oak Bluffs-based burger chain, which also has an outpost in Miami, opened a New York City location in Manhattan’s West Village.

On Friday, owner Ronnie Faust, who first started the Oak Bluffs joint in 2013, spoke with the Gazette from New York about the new venture. He reported a successful first few days of business at 303 Sixth avenue, just off Bleecker street.

“You couldn’t get any more prime than this,” he said of the new location.

IHead on over to 303 Sixth avenue, just off Bleecker street, for a Fat Ronnie’s burger and more.

— Courtesy Ronnie Faust

The opening of Fat Ronnie’s in New York is a lifelong dream achieved for Mr. Faust, who grew up in the Bronx and comes from a long line of New York restaurant owners. His grandmother was the first female union butcher in the country and his father, an Island summer kid known around the Vineyard as Hamburger, owned a burger spot in the city.

But the road to selling mom-and-pop burgers in the Big Apple is not easily traveled, Mr Faust said. Despite over a decade of effort to find a New York restaurant property, he was constantly beaten out by fast-food giants like Five Guys and Shake Shack.

“I’ve been trying to open in New York for the past 14 years,” he said.

Though the location is new, Mr. Faust has sought to keep the Fat Ronnie’s experience the same. He said the New York menu is exactly the same as the one customers know here on the Vineyard. He described the layout inside as similar to his restaurant in Oak Bluffs with an extra dose of pubby coziness.

But he’s found his new customers’ preferences a little surprising.

“We’re known as a premium burger company, but I have sold more lobster rolls and fish and chips here than I have burgers,” he said.

He polled his patrons on the trend, who said it’s slim pickings for good fish and lobster in the West Village.

“If that’s the case, maybe I should open up Fat Ronnie’s Fish Bar,” he said.

It would seem, however, that Mr. Faust’s plate is already plenty full.

He’ll continue running the Oak Bluffs location, set to open for the season in April, and the Miami spot, also subject to the seasonal economy in Miami Beach. But New York restauranteuring is a year-round gig, and Mr. Faust is anticipating a lot of travel and constant plate-spinning.

“I’m glad I’m doing it now before I get to the age where I’m like, yeah, I don’t have the energy,” he said. “The restaurant business, it’s a lot of work.”

The saying goes that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. But Mr. Faust won’t quickly forget the work it took to get here.

“When I see a little mom-and-pop store, which that’s what I am, I always tip my hat,” he said. “I know it’s not easy.”