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Quick Bite | Armonk

Burgers With a Personal Touch

Those who love the enhanced fast food of Manhattan’s Shake Shacks will find a fellow enthusiast in Joshua Elstein, who runs the Burger Factory, a family-owned business that opened four months ago in a white clapboard house on a woodsy side street in Armonk.

This young entrepreneur, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the French Culinary Institute, studied his model well. In keeping with its limited space — four small tables inside, and a few more outside — Burger Factory operates on a much more modest scale than the Shake Shacks, but this allows Mr. Elstein time to give his attention to “fresh food, freshly made and well-priced.”

Every morning he prepares chicken for the After School Special of a half pound of nuggets with fries ($5.50), assembles greens for salads ($3.50) and snips chives for the piled-high lobster roll ($9), a recent addition to the menu. He even whips up his own mayonnaise and aioli.

Mr. Elstein says his black and white shake ($4.25) is a best seller, but this shop, as its name suggests, is more about the burgers: the all-beef, fired to order, is $3.75; the turkey, $4; and the barbecue bacon and cheese, $5.25. Bells and whistles like sautéed mushrooms, onions, chili, bacon and sauerkraut, some of which could do serious damage to a footlong hot dog ($5) as well, are 50 to 75 cents each.

For dessert, a machine churns out YoCream, a nonfat frozen yogurt, and 25 toppings stand at the ready. M. H. REED The Burger Factory, 144 Bedford Road, Armonk. (914) 219-5675;

burgerfactoryarmonk.com. Open Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday (seasonal), 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Major credit cards accepted. Big parking lot in back.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section WE, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Burgers With a Personal Touch. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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