Despite the evolving ownership, Burger King did expand internat to the Bahamas and Puerto Rico in the early 1960s, and Europe, Asia, and Latin America in the 1970s. Some of these moves turned out to be highly successful, a few did not. It entered and then retreated from operations in such countries as Colombia, France, lsrael, Japan, and Oman. (It has reentered some of these markets.) Much of Burger King's early international forays came about either because someone in another country approached someone in the corporation or because someone in the corporation was familiar with a particular country and thought it would offer opportunities. Two reasons have been prevalent in the company's decisions to leave markets: (1) the franchisee not performing adequately, such as not making royalty payments or investing sufficiently in the business; and market being too small to support the necessary(2) infrastructure, such as slaughterhouse and beef-grinding facilities.