 In the post-war years, the restaurant became a meeting-point of the Zürich left-wing intelligentsia, particularly during the student movement's heyday in the late 1960s.The later Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger was among the "Coopi"'s regular guests as a student.Led by the later National Councillor Ezio Canonica, the "Coopi" was also the base of the opponents of James Schwarzenbach's anti-immigration initiatives of the 1960s.