 Brecht is said to have asked why the restaurant had a portrait of Karl Marx but lacked those of Soviet leaders Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and was told that the "Coopi" was "not a place for dictators, not even on the walls".More recently, Gerhard Schröder, then still Chancellor of Germany, ate at the restaurant after opening a Schang Hutter vernissage in 2004.Originally located at the "Zwinglistrasse", the restaurant moved to the "Militärstrasse 36" in 1912 and to the "Strassburgstrasse 5", in 1970 ().