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Fuel supplier Global Partners fumes after getting bypassed by MassDOT for Applegreen in service-plaza bid

It didn't take long before Global and a nonprofit partner, CommonWealth Kitchen, expressed their dismay. On Friday afternoon, Global issued a press release urging MassDOT's board to reconsider the Applegreen recommendation. Advertisement Max Slifka, Global's senior vice president of real estate, said in a statement that Global would pay roughly 50 percent more in rent than Applegreen would in its bid. He added that that state highway officials are missing an opportunity to invest in a business with 'deep Massachusetts roots' rather than handing off this important infrastructure 'to outsiders with no proven stake in our state.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Global already runs four service plazas that Applegreen would take over in 2027, at rest stops in on Route 6 in Barnstable, Route 24 in Bridgewater, and Route 128 in Beverly. A MassDOT spokeswoman said Applegreen was picked because of its demonstrated preparedness for the job and its track record of successful operations in other states. (Boston-based Suffolk Construction is Applegreen's general contractor on the bid.) Advertisement Jen Faigel, CEO of the CommonWealth Kitchen food-business incubator, said she saw the service plaza project as a way to broaden the nonprofit's work with Global. The two organizations had previously started discussing ways to get more locally made products into Global convenience stores, and then developed plans to sell some of the foods made by CommonWealth Kitchen businesses at the rest areas if Global were to win the bid. 'It was very surprising to me that a proposal like Global's didn't win,' Faigel said. 'For me, it just seemed like a missed opportunity to not want to support a business like this.' This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Jon Chesto can be reached at