 In its time, the "Coopi" has seen many internationally famous patrons.While still a member of the Italian Socialist Party, the later Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ate at the "Coopi" in 1913 after speaking at the May Day festivities in Zürich.Vladimir Lenin is reported to have eaten his last meal in Switzerland at the "Coopi" before covertly traveling to Russia in 1917, and the German communist writer Bertolt Brecht also patronised the restaurant during his stay in Switzerland.