Those prices aren't so bad. It's a restaurant, fer crissake. You aren't gonna eat there every day.
It's basically a shitty little breakfast diner, not some fancy restaurant. All the color comes from the Golds crowd. But they've eaten the goose that laid the golden egg apparently.
I used to go there most every weekend at least once for breakfast from about 2001-03. The waitresses were better as was the food. The waitress that usually served me didn't even need to bring a menu, she just asked me if I wanted "the usual."
Sad it's gone.